Paralegal (French Speaking)

We are looking for a Paralegal (French speaking) to join our Legal team in the UK.

Reporting to the Global Head of Legal, you will:

• Review, draft, and negotiate a range of commercial agreements with customers, vendors and partners, in compliance with company policies and risk tolerances, with an emphasis on French language agreements.
• Provide ad hoc legal advice to Sales, Marketing, Engineering and Product teams, summarising and communicating legal concepts and risks in a way that is meaningful for business teams.
• Drive the continuous improvement of standard form agreements, legal knowledge databases/FAQs and legal training materials.
• Help develop scalable review and approval processes and procedures.
• Be an excellent communicator who understands how to manage both team and client expectations.
• Be confident in working with a large degree of autonomy.

We’re looking for someone who takes pride in their work and contributes to an informal working environment. You will:

• Be a fluent speaker of both French and English who is able to review, draft and negotiate contracts in both French and English.
• Have completed a law degree in a relevant jurisdiction.
• Be highly organised with experience of managing contracts and associated processes.
• Have a willingness to roll up your sleeves and dig in on the details of projects working as part of a team — both with other members of the legal function and with non-legal partners.
• Have the ability to prioritise and successfully manage multiple projects at the same time.
• Be able to make pragmatic decisions, balancing legal and commercial drivers.
• Be self-motivated with the ability to identify and do work without being instructed.

Benefits:

• Equity participation in our innovative mission to combat financial crime.
• Unlimited Time Off Policy to promote work-life balance and well-being.
• We embrace a hybrid approach that requires employees to be in the office for two days a week, fostering collaboration and enabling meaningful relationships.
• Opportunities for collaboration and career development with smart, like-minded professionals.
• Annual learning budget to support professional growth.
• A home office budget to support working from home.
• Enhanced parental leave and childcare benefits.
• Life insurance and medical coverage through BUPA, including pre-existing conditions.
• Pension contribution through The People's Pension.

About us:

ComplyAdvantage is the financial industry’s leading source of AI-driven financial crime risk data and detection technology. Our mission is to neutralise the risk of money laundering, terrorist financing, corruption, and other financial crime.

More than 1000 companies rely on us to understand the risk of who they’re doing business with through the world’s only global, real-time database of people and companies. Our solutions identify thousands of risk events daily from millions of structured and unstructured data points.

We have five global hubs in New York, London, Singapore, Lisbon and Cluj-Napoca and are backed by Goldman Sachs, Ontario Teachers, Index Ventures, and Balderton Capital.

Since 2014, we have raised over $100 million in funding, and in 2022 alone grew by over 40% to over 500 people globally. Over the next 12 months, as our revenue increases, we plan to increase to 600.

At ComplyAdvantage, diversity fuels our rocket ship and our commitment to inclusion across race, gender, age, religion, identity, and experience drives us forward every day. We encourage everyone to apply and aspire to consider every application fairly.