We have partnered with Global FinTech Company that is hiring a paralegal to support the growing legal organization. They operate a state of the art Capital Markets Technology and offer solutions for trading, hedging, funding, and risk management. The company's financial software supports clients from global banks, large asset managers, and Fortune 500 companies to Local Banks, energy utilities, and medium-sized hedge funds.
Voted on Glassdoor's Best Places to Work and operating from all over the world, this company is at the forefront of innovation and supported by an amazing legal organization. This is a chance to gain great mentorship and work on a team that offers collaboration, inclusivity, and a dynamic work environment.
Responsibilities:
- Prepare and review client contract amendments and SOW
- Draft contracts according to playbooks and company's standard forms.
- Correspondence regarding contract matters and coordinating distribution of documents to counterparties such as clients, suppliers, etc.
- Create issues tables to assist with negotiation of contracts.
- Coordinating internal signature process.
- File management; including daily filing and organization.
- Proofreading of English language contracts.
- Ad hoc legal research as needed on corporate topic and organization of research files and memoranda.
- Assisting with the engagement and management of external legal counsel.
- Filing of legal matters and data/records management.
- Management of lists of ongoing matters in the Americas and organizational support to the Americas General Counsel.
- Coordination of meetings and general administrative duties.
- Working directly with Business Development colleagues
Qualifications:
- At least 3+ years experience as a paralegal with responsibility for contract administration and management matters.
- Paralegal certification (e.g. NFPA, NALA) is a plus.
- Ability to master commercial proposals and extensive proofreading experience.
- Excellent MS Word and data management skills.
- Familiarity with drafting aspects of software license agreements, amendments and statements of work (including detailed commercial exhibits and provisions) is a plus.
- Previous work experience with a software or technology company, or with a law firm department providing intellectual property law and/or technology law services, is desirable.
