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Job Description
A Senior Paralegal role supporting the legal, risk, and compliance functions of a global renewable energy company, focusing on contract management, regulatory compliance, legal research, and process improvement to ensure efficient legal operations across multiple jurisdictions.
Key Responsibilities
- Support legal operations by maintaining corporate records, managing legal documentation, and coordinating board materials.
- Assist with contract administration, including NDAs and business agreements, and support contract review and tracking.
- Manage legal requests by triaging inquiries, processing documentation accurately, and supporting the legal team’s workflow.
- Conduct legal research across jurisdictions, monitor regulatory developments, and prepare insights for internal stakeholders.
- Support compliance monitoring by tracking contractual and regulatory obligations and collaborating with teams to ensure adherence.
- Drive process improvements and implement legal technology tools to streamline workflows and enhance efficiency.
- Maintain and organize legal records to ensure accuracy, confidentiality, and audit readiness.
- Support governance activities and legal budget management, including document system improvements and legal metrics tracking.
Requirements
- Experience managing complex legal information with precision, structuring workflows to meet competing deadlines, and proactively identifying compliance risks.
- Ability to communicate clearly and build trust across legal, business, and external stakeholders to support smooth operations.
- Experience designing and maintaining compliant, confidential, and audit-ready legal document systems with strong version control.
- Experience leading workflow design and process improvements, tracking legal metrics, and enhancing team efficiency.
- Experience evaluating and implementing legal tech tools, training others, and leveraging platforms like contract lifecycle, compliance, and spend systems.
- Experience conducting cross-jurisdictional legal research and translating findings into actionable insights for strategic decisions.
- Experience monitoring and interpreting regulatory changes, advising on business impacts, and supporting proactive compliance planning.
- Proficiency in supporting governance and legal operations by maintaining corporate records, coordinating board documentation, managing legal budgets, and improving document systems for accuracy and compliance.
- Ability to support legal request triage and contract review, maintain tracking systems, and enable timely, accurate responses.
- Experience supporting compliance monitoring by tracking contractual and regulatory obligations, collaborating across teams to ensure requirements are met, and contributing to internal compliance resources under lawyer supervision.
- Ability to support the administration of NDAs and Business Agreements, including processing documentation accurately and efficiently.
- Experience maintaining accurate corporate records and assisting with file management, with an emphasis on tracking and recording contractual obligations to meet compliance standards.
- Ability to conduct legal research across multiple jurisdictions and prepare lawyer-reviewed insights and updates for internal stakeholders.
- Proficiency in supporting legal, risk, and compliance functions in a fast-paced environment, including managing legal inboxes and legal requests.
- Experience supporting legal operations through process improvement initiatives and legal tech adoption to streamline workflows and enhance consistency.
- Strong organizational skills to keep legal records well-organized and accessible, contributing to the effectiveness of the legal team.
- Ability to work in a hybrid working environment, supporting governance and legal operations from the Sydney office.
- Educational background or experience relevant to legal support roles (implied but not explicitly specified).
Benefits & Perks
annual development allowance
additional paid time off
internal academy courses
annual wellbeing allowance
paid parental leave
mobile phone allowance
competitive pay with above-market performance bonuses and long-term incentives
centrally located offices
flexible and hybrid work model
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