The BBA LLB course students are largely preferred by many MNCs especially for legal departments. This trend has increased in the last decade. With more and more companies preferring for BBA LLB students, there has been emergence of new job roles in the field. The present article discusses about some of the important job roles available after BBA LLB, lets understand them in detail
Company Secretary
The company secretaries work in a strategic and influential way to ensure that a company operates within the specified law.
Role of a Company Secretary
As a company secretary one will need to ensure a company complies with financial and legal requirements as well as maintaining its high standards of corporate governance. Although strictly required to provide legal advice.
Responsibilities of a Company Secretary
As a Company Secretary one is responsible to:
- Report to the chairman and often with board members
- Prepare agendas and papers for board meetings, committees and annual general meetings
- Take minutes, draft resolutions and lodge required forms and annual return with companies’ holdings
- Ensure policies are kept up to date and approved by committee
- Maintain statutory books, including registers of members, direction and secretaries
- Deal with correspondence, collate information and write reports, communicate decisions for relevant company stakeholders
- Contribute to meeting discussions to relevant company stakeholders
- Contribute to meeting discussions and when required advice members of the legal governance accounting and tax departments of the implication of proposed policies
- Monitor changes in relevant legislation and the regulatory environment and take appropriate action
- Coordinate with external regulator and advisories such as lawyers and auditors
- Take responsibility for the health and safety of employees and manage matters related to insurance and property
- Develop and oversee the systems that ensure the company complies with all applicable codes, in addition to its legal and statutory requirements
- Maintain the register of shareholders and monitor changes to share ownership of the company in a publicly listed company
- Enter into contractual agreements with suppliers and customers
- Manage the office space and deal with personnel and administration and insurance for employees, equipment and premises
