Sigma Law Specialist Banking (UK)

Elevate

United Kingdom

Banking & Finance Team

Assisting and supporting the Senior Sigma Law Specialist and Sigma Lawyer on a range of corporate banking matters and other ad hoc legal tasks across the team.

Note: this job description is generic and therefore, is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities. Applicants must have a UK right to work

Experience

Ideally 12 months plus experience as a paralegal in a corporate banking team.
Experience of building credibility and trust with a diverse and challenging business stakeholder group.

Skills and Attributes

Working closely with Associates and Partners across the Banking and Finance team.
Managing virtual data rooms and supporting deals by drafting documentation.
Conducting Companies House filing.
Drafting and updating CP checklists and ancillary documents such as corporate authorisations.
Preparing Bibles and conducting the live deals in Closings
Due diligence of funds finance documents.
Working with legal technology.
Checking legal documents for quality, consistency and content.
Identifying opportunities to improve legal processes and articulating the case for making the change.
Assisting with ad hoc administrative and legal tasks under instruction.
Ensure efficient practices and provide feedback to managers on where improvements can be made.
Works flexibly and actively seeks opportunities to learn new legal processes.
All adhoc banking and fund finance work.

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to

Enjoys working as a part of a team and adapts working styles to fostering a spirit of team working.
Comfortable with change and embraces opportunities to work faster and smarter.
Case/project management skills, attention to detail, and the ability to meet tight deadlines without sacrificing quality of client service.
Fluent in standard MS Office applications and ability to quickly master new software.
Resilience under pressure and motivated by accountability and the desire to meet or exceed objectives and deadlines.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to build relationships.
Comfortable and capable of working proactively in a global organization.
Reliable, meets deadlines and anticipates problems.
Takes personal ownership of self-improvement.
Positive “can-do” attitude, whether working individually or as part of a team.

Performance Improvement

Provide feedback and identify opportunities for improvement of processes or the use of technology.
As a team, work with your manager to design initiatives that will drive measurable improvements in quality, speed and efficiency.
Welcomes mistakes or errors as opportunities for improving business processes.