Paralegal
| Posting date: | 29 March 2024 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 April 2024 |
| Location: | London, EC2M 4AA |
| Company: | NatWest Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | R-00229884 |
Summary
Join us as a Paralegal
- Take on a key role in our Legal team and support the delivery of our legal strategy
- You’ll be providing accurate and timely support to legal colleagues and business stakeholders to ensure the timely, effective and efficient delivery of all issues, projects and initiatives
- This role offers the advantage of a varied and extensive breadth of work, where you’ll find solutions to challenges on a wide range of matters
What you'll do
As a Paralegal, you’ll be supporting the delivery of expert, accurate legal advice, making sure that it is readily understandable to non lawyers and delivered within relevant timescales.
Additionally, you’ll be:
- Assisting in managing and delivering legal advice and input to projects and stakeholders in a commercial, user friendly and efficient manner
- Supporting the delivery of continuous improvement in the operating practices and processes, including identifying efficiencies, improvements and opportunities to reduce costs
- Helping the team to attain high performance standards with a focus on development opportunities and proactive succession planning
The skills you'll need
To join us in this role, you’ll have experience of providing legal support to transactions and projects in-house or in a leading UK law firm, as well as an awareness of, and interest in emerging legal and regulatory change. You'll also bring knowledge of derivatives and electronic trading activities within a banking environment, and knowledge of the legal issues associated with derivatives and electronic trading.
You’ll also need:
- The ability to gain the respect of, and build strong relationships with, colleagues and external business contacts
- The ability to understand, and keep up to date with, emerging legal risks and issues
- The ability to set and achieve high performance targets
- Good communication skills