Paralegal

Funding Circle UK; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm in the UK seeks a Paralegal to support its Legal and Compliance team. The role involves providing legal advice, ensuring compliance with GDPR, reviewing contracts, and collaborating with various stakeholders. Candidates should have a law degree or equivalent, with at least 2 years of legal experience. The company promotes diversity and offers hybrid working along with various benefits, including private medical insurance.

Benefits

Hybrid working

Benefit allowance

Private medical insurance

Dental insurance

Health cash plan

Qualifications

• 2+ years experience in a legal environment, ideally at a law firm or in-house.
• Strong academic background with a law degree or equivalent.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively.

Responsibilities

• Support the Commercial Legal function with various legal tasks.
• Provide legal advice for contracts and regulatory compliance.
• Monitor requests for legal support and ensure tasks are completed on time.

Skills

Legal advice

GDPR compliance

Contract review

Problem solving

Communication skills

Education

Degree in Law or equivalent

Completed GDL or SQE Part 1

Job description

We are looking for a Paralegal in our Legal and Compliance team.

The team are the go-to experts for legal and regulatory advice on Funding Circle’s commercial and business activities

At Funding Circle, we believe the world needs small businesses. That’s why we’ve made it our mission to help them get the finance they need to grow.

The role

As Paralegal, you will primarily support the Commercial Legal function with the opportunity to work with the Capital Markets and Company Secretary teams.

• Working with Stakeholders across Procurement, Sales, Brand and Marketing, Data, Technology and Product to provide pragmatic legal advice on a range of initiatives including, contracts, data protection, financial services regulation, intellectual property, development of new lending products, and financial services regulation
• Focusing on GDPR compliance, including reviewing and responding to personal data requests (right of access or erasure), completing privacy impact assessments; assisting with the upkeep of data protection policies and training materials, and template DPAs, and maintaining privacy notices
• Reviewing and amending a range of contracts, including our customer terms and conditions, NDAs, data processing agreements, partnership agreements, marketing contracts, and contracts for marketing, outsourcing, employment and consultancy
• Reviewing security documents relating to our finance products, such as personal guarantees, deeds of priority, and deeds of release
• Monitoring, allocating, and tracking requests for legal support from business teams via a service desk and shared inbox, ensuring no tasks are missed
• Broadening your legal and regulatory knowledge through research and horizon scanning
• Taking a hands-on role in the optimisation of the legal function through the adoption of technology, including generative AI, developing and owning processes to enhance the team’s efficiency, including maintaining contract templates, legal knowledge and keeping our commercial contracts playbook up to date
• Proactively problem solving, identifying and confidently mitigating any risks, issues or control weaknesses that arise in your day-to-day

What we’re looking for

• Strong academics, degree (or equivalent), preferable to have completed the GDL or SQE Part 1 (if not possessing a law degree) but not essential
• 2+ years experience working in a legal environment, either at a law firm or in-house. Exceptional candidates with less experience will also be considered
• Excellent communication skills that you want to develop further; you are open; reliable and embrace collaboration; you are curious and keen to learn
• You have a ‘can do’ attitude, comfortable working in a fast-paced environment. You prioritise commitments, manage a varied workload and meet deadlines

We are committed to building diverse teams and are an equal-opportunity workplace and affirmative-action employer.

We celebrate and support the differences that make you, you. We offer hybrid working, a benefit allowance, private medical insurance, dental insurance, health cash plan, and more.