Job Description
My client is a well-known sports betting and gambling company with international reach.
They are seeking to appoint a Paralegal to provide legal and admin support their Payments Legal Team on a 6-month fixed term contract.
Key responsibilities:
* support to internal stakeholders, assisting with project management and administrative tasks.
* Support the Payments Team with contract reviews and analysis.
* Update the payments contracts database and ensure that all documents are properly filed and up to date.
* Conduct legal research on regulatory developments impacting payment platforms; proactively monitor and review legislation in order to help ensure accurate and up-to-date inventories of all legal obligations.
The ideal candidate:
* Excellent academic credentials, law degree preferable
* Minimum of 2 years’ previous experience working as a paralegal at a law firm or in-house. Either commercial or payments experience preferred.
* Legal research skills, including an understanding of legal databases such as Westlaw or Lexis-Nexis
* Familiarity with CRM platforms, for example, ServiceNow
* Previous project management experience
* Excellent communication and written skills, enabling you to engage with stakeholders confidently.
* Multi-tasking skills; effectively managing multiple tasks at the same time.
* A keen eye for detail; the ability to review documents, ensuring accuracy and compliance with legal standards.
* Administrative skills including creating and managing an effective filing system.
* Excellent time management skills and the ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced, energetic team environment and successfully manage multiple deadlines.
The company offer great hybrid working, with a requirement to be in the office a minimum of 2 days each week.
If you’d enjoy working in a fast-paced working environment, helping business teams find solutions to complex challenges, building strong client relationships and working collaboratively with cross-functional teams, please get in touch.