Paralegal - Contract Administration Specialist

3 weeks ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Diligent Corporation Full time

About Diligent Corporation

We are a global leader in modern governance, providing SaaS solutions across governance, risk, compliance, audit, and ESG. Our mission is to empower leaders with the technology, insights, and connections they need to drive greater impact and accountability – to lead with purpose.

We are seeking a talented, collaborative, and experienced Paralegal to assist the APAC legal team, with a focus on Australian, Singapore, and Hong Kong markets. The successful candidate will provide support with contract administration and employment matters, reviewing legal documents, drafting legal documents, and amending documents as necessary.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Review and interpret contracts and other legal documents as requested by the Commercial Legal team.
  • Drafting documents using in-house templates.
  • Managing templates and distributing to proper business groups to ensure most recent versions are being utilized.
  • Interact with internal business partners and is a subject matter expert for contracts administration-related issues.
  • Process documents for signatures via DocuSign.
  • Tracking outstanding legal items for the team.
  • Scanning, filing, and organizing documents.
  • Providing general legal support on an as-needed basis.
  • Assist with corporate governance and entity maintenance within APAC.

Required Experience/Skills:

  • 3-4 years' experience with contract administration with strong emphasis on software agreements.
  • Fluency in Chinese and Japanese is a plus.
  • Multinational experience in APAC is highly desirable.
  • Ability to read and understand contractual terms with strong experience in reviewing and amending agreements.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills.
  • Ability to be flexible to changing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
  • High attention to detail, strong organizational skills, and good analytical skills.
  • Experience in assisting and providing support for employment matters with legal counsel.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft O365, Salesforce, DocuSign, and legal software.
  • Familiarity with APAC regulations and data protection work applicable to tech companies.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to engage comfortably at all levels with internal clients, both within APAC and internationally.
  • Highly motivated, strategic, detail-oriented individual with the ability to proactively manage a heavy workload and demonstrate excellent analytical abilities.

What Diligent Offers You

  • Creativity is ingrained in our culture. We are innovative collaborators by nature. We thrive in exploring how things can be differently both in our internal processes and to help our clients.
  • We care about our people. Diligent offers a flexible work environment, global days of service, comprehensive health benefits, meeting-free days, generous time-off policy, and wellness programs to name a few.
  • We have teams all over the world. We may be headquartered in New York City, but we have office hubs in Washington D.C., Vancouver, London, Galway, Budapest, Munich, Bengaluru, Singapore, and Sydney.
  • Diversity is important to us. Growing, maintaining, and promoting a diverse team is a top priority for us. We foster and encourage diversity through our Employee Resource Groups and provide access to resources and education to support the education of our team, facilitate dialogue, and foster understanding.

We are a drug-free workplace. Diligent is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, pregnancy, childbirth, physical disability, mental disability, age, military status, protected veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner or civil union status, gender (including sex stereotyping and gender identity or expression), medical condition (including, but not limited to, cancer-related or HIV/AIDS-related), genetic information, or sexual orientation in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Diligent's EEO Policy and Know Your Rights. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at recruitment@diligent.com.

To all recruitment agencies: Diligent does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Diligent employees, or any other organization location. Diligent is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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