Paralegal London, England
Job description
About us
We’re Littlepay - a successful fintech headquartered in Melbourne with operations in UK, EU and USA. We are the world's only payment processor specialising in the transit and mobility sector. We operate a payments platform that enables customers to pay for public transport using any payment card, mobile wallet, or wearable device. Littlepay is now processing transactions in 12 countries and continuing to expand globally.
Our Littlepay values:
- Trust and be trustworthy
- Embrace challenge
- Solve problems, together
- Deliver with speed and agility Be candid and kind
About the role
We’re looking for a Paralegal to support our Head of Legal and Compliance and Senior Legal Counsel in managing the efficient functioning of the legal and compliance process, with a particular emphasis on document management.
Day to day, you’ll:
- Provide administrative and paralegal support to the Legal Team
- Organise and maintain a contract management and reporting system
- Assist with reviewing and drafting NDAs and other commercial contracts
- Create, implement, and maintain registers and databases as required
- Prepare and issue standard documents for signature
- Coordinate routines for regular meetings and compliance activities
- Serve as a triage for enquiries and requests for the Legal Team, escalating matters within the team as required
- Conduct ad hoc legal and compliance research, with a focus on data protection
- Work with the Operations and Commercial teams, and senior management, to ensure effective cross functional communication and reporting Undertake such other duties as may reasonably be required by the Legal Team
About you
Ideally, you’ll have:
- Around 2 years’ experience working within a legal function, and some level of legal training, ideally LPC-qualified
- A high level of expertise in Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe, Google Suite
- Experience working with Notion or other work management tools
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate with people at all levels
- Exceptional relationship management skills with a high degree of collaboration
- Excellent attention to detail in a fast paced environment
- A high degree of comfort working in the grey, with the ability to be self-motivated and manage conflicting priorities under pressure and deadlines
- Experience taking the lead on admin activities critical to the organisation and performance of the Legal and Compliance function, including organisation and experience with meticulous electronic filing A "can-do" attitude and be prepared to work in close co-operation with internal and external contacts
Why us?
We love to look after our people. At Littlepay, you'll be part of an inclusive and diverse team that celebrates the differences and unique gifts we each bring to work.
You’ll have access to:
- A high trust working environment, with access to cloud collaboration tools like Notion, Slack, Miro, Google Workspace, and Jira to help us work together effectively
- Paid professional development (including conferences, courses, learning subscriptions, etc.)
- Harrison Assessments - our talent management provider that facilitates continuous professional development
- A variety of flexible leave options (including annual, personal, volunteer, parental, grandparental, gender affirmation, and more)
- A company-wide paid day off
- Flexible (hybrid) working conditions
- Health insurance via our provider Vitality
- UK pension additional contribution split
- Wellbeing support- including a free School of Life subscription for all employees, and counselling via the School of Life (UK) or our EAP program (Australia)
- Our generous employee referral program
- Mid-year, quarterly, and end-of-year corporate and team events and workshops
- A work from home remote set up allowance
- Short-term remote working arrangements International travel opportunities (dependent on role)
You'll be able to take up the numerous other benefits that working at Littlepay affords you, including having access to the eclectic and vibrant culture that Shoreditch is known for.
Our recruitment process
If you’ve been shortlisted for the role, you’ll first have a chat with our Head of Talent, who will set up an interview with the hiring team if the stars align. A short workplace preferences questionnaire will also be sent to help us to learn more about the way you prefer to work. Following a successful first interview, you’ll meet with a second set of Littlepay folks for a final time.
If you have any questions regarding the recruitment process or if you require any accommodations for any stage in the interview process, please don’t hesitate to let us know. Additionally, if you don’t meet all of the criteria (we know that some underrepresented groups tend to avoid applying if they don’t), please still apply. We really enjoy meeting diverse people who might bring a fresh perspective on a problem we need to solve!
Ultimately, being part of our small but mighty team means you'll have the opportunity to learn about micropayments, and have a hand in the provision of services that impact millions of people. You’ll help us deliver on our revolutionary product roadmap and help scale our platform as we continue to expand across the globe.
If this opportunity interests you, hit apply! We look forward to learning about you.
Littlepay are a 2023 Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant.
