Corporate Paralegal

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Job description

We rise to challenges together

Corporate Paralegal

Location: London / Hybrid

Business Area: Legal
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract (6 months)

Working Hours: Monday to Friday 8:30am to 5:00pm

Why join us?

We're ready for anything. We thrive on challenge and change. The undeniable pressure and pace of our 24/7 operation keeps us on our toes and offers a variety of career pathways and options to explore and pursue. We encourage everyone to work hard, push further and show resilience. And it's exciting. Because only by mentoring and role modelling our success and innovation, will we continue to diversify, grow as individuals and succeed together.

About the role

In this busy and exciting role, you will be responsible for supporting the Legal and Company Secretarial team with a full range of legal, corporate governance and company secretarial duties.

Working in a friendly and dynamic head office team of c.20+, you'll ideally have a law degree and have completed (or be working towards) a post-graduate legal and/or governance qualification (e.g. LPC/SQE, LLM Corporate Governance or similar) with legal and/or governance experience gained in an in-house or professional services environment (or even a bit of both!). There is potential for the role to count as qualifying work experience for the purpose of qualification through the SQE route.

The role will be offered on a fixed-term basis, for a period of 6 months and offers a hybrid working arrangement, working 3 days a week at our head office based in London (W1T).

A start date of late November would be ideal.

Role Accountabilities

Governance/Company Secretarial

• Statutory and regulatory compliance: Ensuring all statutory and regulatory filings are maintained and up to date (including Confirmation Statements, Appointments/Resignations, Share Capital filings at Companies House) for the Group subsidiaries.
• Board support: Assisting with the organisation and preparation of papers for the Group Board and Committee meetings, including uploading of Board papers to the board paper portal and assisting with the preparation of draft Agendas/Board Papers/Timetable.
• Corporate reporting: Assisting with the annual year end audit and the preparation of the Annual Report and Accounts, including assistance with drafting the Corporate Governance and Directors' Reports.
• AGM Support: Assisting with the drafting and preparation of documents required for the Annual General Meeting (AGM).
• Know Your Client (KYC) requests: Attending to day-to-day issues as required, including the provision of KYC information regarding the Group companies and working with the Group's Treasury and Finance functions and external legal and accounting advisors where applicable.

Legal/Commercial

• Commercial contracts: drafting and negotiating standard form procurement contracts, variations, and NDAs, with opportunities to work on other types of commercial agreements on an ad hoc basis.
• Policies and precedents: helping to create and maintain internal group legal policies and precedents and supporting other functions with policy reviews where they have legal implications.

• Legal research and compliance: monitoring legal developments and translating them into clear, actionable plans for the business.
• Data protection: supporting the business with data protection compliance and the implementation of best practice, including by maintaining company privacy notices and data protection policies.
• Corporate: supporting with M&A due diligence, corporate projects and other transactional matters as required.

About you

Ideally, you will have previous experience of a similar role with the competence to understand key stakeholders and build your own internal networks.

The ability to learn and maintain general knowledge of all businesses within the Group and attention to detail will be essential.

You will be highly organised and thorough, demonstrating excellent diligence and an initiative-taking, flexible approach.

You will also be personable, discreet, confident, articulate and able to establish strong relationships with individuals at all levels of seniority.

Proficient in Microsoft Office applications (e.g. Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook, effective communication, legal research and writing skills - will all be key.

If you're looking for an interim position, gaining valuable experience in a listed PLC, then this could be an excellent fit.

What you'll receive

As an equal opportunity employer, we're committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.

You'll enjoy:

• Life Assurance (2.5 x salary)
• Private medical insurance
• Annual Bonus Scheme
• 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role)
• Staff Shop
• Stakeholder Pension Scheme
• Discount & cashback platform
• Personal Accident Insurance
• Free health check
• Employee Assistance Programme
• A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans)
• Salary sacrifice car lease scheme
• Free independent mortgage advice
• Discounted tutoring for children
• Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary
• Free car parking - Site dependant

Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions.

Proud to be Bakkavor

We're the biggest name you've never heard of. You've probably eaten our food. You just didn't realise it. Because as global leaders in the fresh prepared food industry, we create innovative products, including meals, soups, dips, salads, desserts, pizzas and breads for our customers in the UK, US and China. We're ambitious. We're full of ideas and we're ready for more people to join us who share our passion for quality - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team!

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