Webinar on “Structural Solution to Complex Compliance Function”

The Companies Act, 2013 has recognised that Company Secretary (CS) is a Key Managerial Person and also as responsible for all compliances. Role and responsibility of CS is not only expanding but also getting connected to and entangled with almost every function in the enterprise. Board and Regulators look at CS for all informational support, monitoring on behalf of the Board, reporting to the Board etc. In case of listed companies, NBFCs and companies having foreign funding, CS is looked up on as ‘in-house regulator’. 

Clearly the job of CS is getting complicated and has grown beyond the physical limits of a single CS function. CS function today is vertical in an enterprise and requires an evolved departmental structure to be able to efficiently discharge the expected responsibilities. 

SAGE presents a webinar wherein professionals who have been handling CS responsibilities of different types of companies will present how they meet the demands of the job and challenges that they have handled innovatively and systems and processes that they have set up; they will also speak about the use of technology as part of the structural solutions they have implemented. 

It is expected that the webinar will open windows of new thinking to handle the pressures of the contemporary CS job profile. 

Speakers: 

1) CS K Randhir Singh, Company Secretary & Compliance Officer, Colgate-Palmolive (India) Limited 

2) CS Rekha Surendhiran, Vice President – Company Secretary & Head – Legal, Carborundum Universal Limited, Murugappa Group 

3) CS N Suryanarayanan, Governance & Regulatory Advisor 

4) CS Sivaram Nair, Company Secretary & Compliance Officer, Larsen & Toubro Limited 

Program Moderators: 

1) CS (Dr.) V. R. Narasimhan, Dean & Professor of Practice – School for Regulatory Studies and Supervision (SRSS) & School for Corporate Governance (SCG), National Institute of Securities Markets 

2) CS S. N. Viswanathan, Designated Partner, SAGE Governance Advisory LLP