12 month fixed term contract

Our team undertakes technical and complex financial services and markets regulatory work for brokerage houses, investment exchanges, investment banks, commodity traders, asset management companies, general insurance and life assurance companies and other financial institutions operating in the UK and international financial markets.

The team provides advice on the full range of financial services regulatory matters, including advising on the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (FSMA), strategic regulatory issues, investigations, disputes and disciplinary matters, derivatives and commodity trading and documentation.

Our financial services and markets regulation lawyers are based in offices across our network in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. We work closely with other specialists within the firm's financial markets practice to offer our clients a cohesive multidisciplinary service at the leading edge of the financial services industry.

Main duties and responsibilities

• Coordination role on the Project team, liasing with local counsel, client project team and Simmons & Simmons project team
• Analysing, collating and summarising large quantities of information;
• Establishing document management/ document retrieval systems for the Project;
• Researching points of law and other factual issues and preparing reports on the same;
• Providing general administrative support to Project fee-earners including proof reading
• Additional support to navigator team on navigator development projects capacity permitting

Person specification

Education / qualifications / experience

• Graduate with a first or upper second class degree or equivalent.
• Previous Paralegal experience preferred

Knowledge and technical skills

• Excellent IT skills, including Outlook, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel

General skills

• It is expected that the candidate will have a highly organised and methodical approach to the role as well as confidence with IT systems.
• Attention to detail and the confidence to work independently as well as in a team
• Highly motivated and commercially astute
• Excellent communication and organisational skills
• The ability to work to tight deadlines whilst maintaining a high level of accuracy
  Self motivated, hardworking, reliable and works well under pressure