Contract In-House Paralegal

Leading UK based commercial services firm are looking for a temporary paralegal / company secretarial administrator to join their in-house legal team and provide comprehensive support to the Group General Counsel across a wide range of legal, compliance, data protection, ESG and administrative matters. This role is a fixed-term contract of 3 months with a genuine possibility of being extended longer term indefinitely.

• Manage and maintain the conflicts of interest, directorships, IPR and PoAs registers
• Maintain minute book and other corporate files
• Assist General Counsel and in-house CoSec team with other governance and compliance tasks
• Assist with management and instructing outside company secretary providers
• Assist the legal team with NDAs
• Manage the contracts register and maintain accurate records
• Maintain files for key supplier and customer contracts
• Assist the legal team with litigation matters - delivery of documents, filings, update files
• Assist with maintenance litigation register and calendar
• Manage the register of leases and calendar
• Maintain the data breaches tracker
• Renew data certificates and manage ICO registrations
• Assist with legal aspects of risk register and business continuity
• Assist with ESG policy maintenance and renewals
• Maintain register of loans, loan notes
• Develop and maintain parent company guarantees register
• Support the legal team with intra-group financial and other arrangements.

It is essential that you have at least 12 months' experience as a paralegal from another in-house environment and have a solid understanding of contracts cycle, compliance and governance. You must also have a proven track record dealing with company secretarial work.

Fantastic opportunity for an in-house paralegal to join a leading financial services firm and gain some experience working with real autonomy.