Resume of Monita Singh for Management Position in Corporate Compliance
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905, Raheja Residency
B Wing, MG Complex
Sector 14 Vashi 400 703
Navi Mumbai
Phone (Home): (022) - 27664310
Cell No : 9819877251
E- Mail: monita_singh2003@yahoo.co.in
Objective
A management position which offers creative and innovative environment involving
secretarial, legal compliance and Corporate Governance for corporate entities.
Synopsis
Associate Member of Company Secretaries Institute of India with an excellent track
record of responsibility and experience, having worked with major companies both
in India and abroad.
Strength in managing corporate compliances issues independently meeting
compliances and mitigating the risks associated with non-compliances at all levels
for companies.
Capable of creating Compliance frame work, institutionalizing compliance
management across organization and monitoring of the System by conducting
reviews.
The areas of compliances include Corporate Laws, Foreign Exchange Management
Act, Industrial and Labor Laws, Environment Health and Safety Laws, Tax Laws, UK
Bribery Act, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of US, Contract Management Internal
Policies and Codes and industry specific compliances.
Career History
September 2012 –till date Essar Services India Limited
Designation : Vice President Regulatory Assurance
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Role: Essar Group is a conglomerate with presence in 20 counties and engaged in
multiple businesses like Mining, Steel Manufacturing, Shipping, Ports, EPC Projects,
and ITES Industry. Part of Group Assurance team responsible for conducting audits
for monitoring compliances and giving recommendations for mitigating
noncompliance across group entities in India as well as overseas.
Creation of Compliance frame work with risk based approach and business
setup, conducting audits to ensure the standards under applicable set of
legislations.
Rendering advisory support in meeting compliances.
Creating awareness about Compliance and its relevance to organisation in
meeting business objectives.
Training Compliance Champions at organisation level.
Conducting Training programmers on new standards and legislation to process
owners
Areas covered span across corporate laws, commercial laws, tax laws, labor and
Human relation laws, health safety laws.
August 2006 –August 2012 with PricewaterhouseCoopers Private Ltd (PwC)
Mumbai
Designation: Associate Director
Role: Head of Compliance team which forms part of Risk Advisory Services
Headed the practice on Regulatory Compliance responsible for revenue target as
set by for the team .The offering include Creation of Compliance Framework and
Implementation of Compliance Management Solution the software developed In
house by PwC.
Responsible for handling Clients expectation from the engagement and building
up relationship to have regular business association.
Had Pan India client base and have working experience into several Industries
like ITES, Manufacturing, FMCG and Healthcare etc.
Responsible for conducting Statutory Legal Compliance Audit which covers
conducting statutory compliance review of made compliance obligation to be
met by Companies under Direct, Indirect Tax, Corporate Laws,Labour Laws and
other Miscellaneous Laws.
Responsible from understanding the requirement of clients from regulatory
perspective and designing the framework to establish the Compliance
Management system.
The offering includes checklists on legislations covered under major compliance
segment, review and reports on the compliance of the corporate entities.
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I was also responsible for conducting workshop on statutory compliance rollout
plans for the clients creating awareness and advocacy of statutory compliance
among all level of process owners in the organization.
I lead a team of professionals consisting of Lawyers, Company Secretaries
responsible of assignment deliverables on Statutory Compliance. I have worked
for listed companies as well for closely held public limited Companies.
Also have experience in International Legal Compliances of to be met by
corporate entities established abroad as Branch or Subsidiary Abroad broadly
with respect to Tax, Corporate Laws, Labour Laws and Immigration Laws.
Have worked on compliances pursuant to SOX Act for companies listed at New
York Stock Exchange with regard to New York Stock Exchange Agreement for
Non U S Companies, Securities Exchange Act, 1933 and Foreign Corrupt Practices
Act of USA.
I am also into interpretation of latest Legislations especially on Corporate Laws.
Also extending Company Secretarial Support for Private Companies.
December 2003 - August 2006 Onward Technologies Ltd. Mumbai
Designation: Company Secretary
The Company is engaged in providing software solutions and product resale of
Hardware and Software .The Company had 5 subsidiaries abroad and presence in 8
countries .The company is listed at premier Stock Exchanges of India.
Independently responsible for compliance under Companies Act and other
Corporate Laws.
I was responsible for Statutory Compliances, risk management, and interface
with internal as well as external customers.
Compliance and Secretarial
Incorporation of companies and Closure of Defunct Companies. Conducting
Meeting viz. Committee, Board of Director, Shareholders.
Convening the AGM and responsible for all related function like approval of
Account, Designing of Annual Report and related compliances.
Issuance of shares under Preferential Allotment and its related compliances.
Listing of Shares at the Stock exchange(s) issued under Preferential Issues and
ESOP.
Drafting of Scheme of ESOP for the employees of the company and its
subsidiaries.
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Issue of Shares under ESOP and their listing.
All compliances under Listing agreement and Insider Trading Regulations of SEBI.
Compliances to be made pursuant to SEBI Substantial Acquisition of Shares and
Takeover Regulations 1997. Delisting of Shares from Stock Exchanges.
Interface with Registrar and Custodians for Issue of shares and related
compliances.
Incorporation of overseas subsidiaries/branches.
Monitoring and Compliance of Overseas Branches.
Investor Relation Management: Complaint Handling, Share Certificate Transfer,
Transmission of Share certificate.
Documentation and compliance for mortgage of property to lenders of Term
Loan.
Process of Restructuring of Companies through Merger/Amalgamation.
Compliances to be made under Corporate Laws with regard to Inward
remittance of funds
Implementation of Corporate Governance in totality in the organization.
Was associated in process of implementing Internal Controls and Risk
management
Legal
Drafting, Execution of Agreement as per Indian as well International Laws.
Trademark Registration and compliance thereafter.
All Property related deals acquired on Lease or Outright basis by the company at
various locations
Interface with solicitors and Attorney in EU and UK with respect to corporate
compliance to be made in respective countries.
Registration of Companies with STP’s and Export Processing Zones and related
compliance.
Legal proceeding on behalf of the company under Negotiable Instruments Act.
Issues relating to Sales Tax in registration and compliance thereafter.
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HR
All matters pertaining to employees of the Company’s subsidiaries located
overseas.
Deployment of onsite employees in several Countries and compliance in India.
Human Resources Issues in global environment such as Agreements, Bonds for
Indian Employees placed overseas.
Immigration and Work Visas processing for Onsite Employees of the Company
Responsibility for handling legal matters both internal and external to the
company on worldwide basis.
June 2002 - November 2003 Prashant Projects Ltd. Mumbai
Designation: Company Secretary
The Company is engaged in undertaking trunk key projects in India and abroad
for specialized civil construction and petroleum storage consulting.
Responsibilities:
Overall responsibility for secretarial and legal functions.
Established and incorporated a trust; a private company and a public company.
Involved in all kinds of legal activities; right from drafting of documents to their
final execution within framework of Indian as well as International Laws
Maintenance of all records and registers under the Companies Act and other
corporate laws.
Arranging Board Meetings and related work thereof.
Overall responsibility for compliance under corporate laws.
Liaison with relevant statutory bodies.
January 2001- March 2001 STG Software Technology Group Kanpur
Pursued short term course on Oracle 8i Report & Form 6 ,and Developer 2000
April 2000- Dec 2000 IIT Kharagpur
Completed courses in C and Data Structure, Unix, Java and Networking
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December 1998- April 2000 Latex Products Limited, Surat Thani, Thailand
Designation: Head - Secretarial
Latex Products Limited (LPL), an ISO 9002 certified company engaged in manufacture
and trade of various types of Natural Rubber Latex Concentrates with more than 50%
exports of production.
Responsibilities included secretarial work pertaining to organizing meetings at al l levels
maintaining statutory records and registers in its support. Statutory compliance as
required under corporate laws of the land, Board of Investment (BOI) and Stock
Exchange of Thailand.
January 1994- June 1998 Rajinder Steels Limited, Mumbai
Designation: Company Secretary
A public limited company with paid up capital of. 60 Crores and listed at major stock
exchanges of India, shareholder strength being 88,000 engaged in manufacturing of HR
Coil and Cold Roll strips of steel.
Responsibilities
Convening general meeting of members as well as board of directors of the company.
Drafting of documents in support to the meeting and recording of minutes and related
legal documents as required under several corporate acts
Fund Raising by way of Public Issue of Convertible Debentures of 58.08 Crores where
J.M Finance and IDBI were involved as Lead Merchant Bankers. Involved from the stage
of preparing prospectus, approval from all associated agencies and pre and post issue
work.
Fund Raising by way of acceptance of Public Deposit under section 58-A of
Companies Act 1956 Compliance with several Corporate Laws
Maintenance of all records and registers as required under Companies Act as
well as several other corporate laws.
Looked after in-house Non Banking Financial companies with respect to
compliance under RBI guidelines, Stock Exchange and Registrar of Companies.
Maintained books of accounts of in-house companies involving day to day
transactions to finalization of accounts and supporting in audit thereof.
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Syndication and documentation regarding financial assistance availed from
private merchant bankers and banks.
1991- 1994 Rajinder Steels Limited Mumbai
Designation: Assistant Company Secretary
Responsibilities
Supported and assisted secretarial department consisting of share holder’s strength of
80,000 and Debenture holder base of 35,000.
Maintenance of Statutory Register and Records.
Involved in Right Issue of equity shares aggregating to a value of. 8.50 Crores
Conducted and held meetings at Committee, Board and Share Holders levels.
Drafting of statutory documents.
Supervised and directed in-house share transfer department
Education
A.C.S.
Associate member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India since 1992
Master
M. Com in Applied Economics from Lucknow University. Passed in 1989 with First
Division .
Bachelor
B.Com from Lucknow University. Passed in 1968 with First Division
IT Education
C++ IIT Kharagpur 2001
Oracle 8 i IIT Kharagpur 2000
UNIX, Java and Web Designing
Personal Data
Date of Birth: 26th June 1966
Passport
Holding valid Indian Passport.
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Family
Married to a Senior Executive
Daughter aged 19 years
Son aged 12 years.
Health
Excellent, no long term or serious illness.
References
Can be provided on request.