Our FS Reg - Cross Border Unit team have an exciting opportunity for a Paralegal to join their growing department. This role would suit analytically minded candidates with strong excel skills and the ability to handle and structure data.

Main duties and responsibilities

• Providing dedicated paralegal resource to our cross-border clients, including many of the world's largest financial institutions.
• Working closely with associates, consultants, the wider paralegal team, partners, senior management and trainees within the Financial Services Regulatory Group to deliver ongoing managed services and ad-hoc projects.
• Working closely with Simmons' global network of local counsel firms in c 150 jurisdictions to deliver ongoing managed services and ad-hoc projects.
• Building strong relationships across the group, the wider firm, with clients and with local counsel
• Working in an organised and structured way in-line with our cross-border processes and procedures.
• Identifying and implementing changes that will improve the efficient running of our cross-border operations.
• Analysing, collating and summarising large quantities of information.
• Researching points of law and regulation, and other factual issues and preparing reports and summaries as required.
• Providing general administrative and legal support to the wider team and organisation as required. This may include, among other things, assistance with the preparation pitches; mobilisation of new projects; reviewing of commercial arrangements with clients and counsel; client billing and external cost management; tracking and reporting of active matters, both for internal and client stakeholders; proof reading.

Person specification

Education / qualifications / experience:

• Graduate with a first or upper second class degree or equivalent.
• Previous Paralegal / Legal Analyst experience

Knowledge and technical skills:

• Intermediate level of skill with Microsoft Office applications (Outlook, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel).
• Familiarity with legal software systems eg time recording, document compare, filing systems.

General skills:

• Highly organised and methodical approach.
• Confidence with IT systems.
• Ability to structure and analyse data in Excel.
• 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.