In-House Paralegal / Company Secretary

Job Title: In-House Paralegal / Company Secretary

Location: Central London

Salary: to £60,000 depending on experience

Hybrid: Yes

Leading UK based commercial services firm are looking for a 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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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 work with real autonomy.

McKinlay Law endeavour to contact all successful candidates within 24 hours. However, due to the volume of applications that we receive, we are not able to respond to every candidate individually. If you have not heard from us within 24 hours your application has been unsuccessful and we have not retained your details

McKinlay Law is the trading name of McKinlay Recruitment Services Ltd. Registered in England No. VAT Reg. No. .

McKinlay Recruitment Services Ltd.,
26-27 Bedford Square,
London, United Kingdom,
WC1B 3HP