Paralegal

Job title: Paralegal

Department: Finance

Location: Halifax or Peterborough

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Salary: From £25,000

We’re looking for a Paralegal to be part of our success story.

**Listed in the 2022 Sunday Times 100: Britain’s fastest-growing private companies.
**Great career development opportunities – grow with us.

About the role

The Paralegal role is responsible for supporting the delivery of legal services across the Activate Group.

Key responsibilities

Records Management
• Maintaining contracts databases, tracking key information and ensuring documents are available to key stakeholders.
• Maintaining and updating corporate records for entities within the group and assisting with Companies House filings.
• Managing correspondence

Case Management
• Manage case files, track deadlines and support debt recovery procedures

Contracts
• Review and draft basic contractual documentation such as confidentiality agreements, standard supply agreements and contract amendments
• Manage contract sign off procedures

Research
• Carry out legal research and present findings in concise and easy to read way

Other
• Work collaboratively with the various internal departments such as HR, finance and marketing as well as other businesses in the Group to support the effective delivery of legal services in alignment with the Group’s objectives

Skills and experience

• Law degree or equivalent qualification
• 12 months prior experience working in a paralegal or commercial role
• Experience of document management
• Experience of working closely with a variety of stakeholders to deliver results
• Strong attention to detail and great organisational skills
• Ability to work confidentially with sensitive information
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong IT skills, including Excel data analysis and presentation

Benefits

• 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
• Personal health cash plan – claim back the cost of things like dentist and optical check ups
• Enhanced maternity / paternity / adoption / shared parental pay
• Life assurance: three times basic salary
• Free breakfasts and fruit
• Birthday surprise for everybody!

What you can expect from us

At Activate Group, looking after team members is a major priority. Whether you're at our smart Halifax or Peterborough offices, one of our AAR sites or working from home, we'll make sure you have all the support you need to succeed.

From benefits that put your health and wellbeing first, to impressive rewards for our employee of the month, and little perks like free fruit and cereal, we’ll go out of our way to show how much we appreciate you.

A bit about us

Named by the Sunday Times as one of the UK’s 100 fastest-growing private companies, we employ more than 700 team members nationwide.

We work with some of the UK's largest fleets and insurance companies, supporting drivers that have been involved in a road incident at our contact centres in Halifax and Peterborough.

We look after every step of the repair process, repairing vehicles at our own Activate Accident Repair body shops, and through a UK-wide network of independent repair partners.

Want to know what it’s like to work with us? Take a look at our purpose and values. They define who we are, and how we work with team members, customers and suppliers:

Purpose: Make someone's bad day better

Values:

• Make it happen – Be accountable. Take the initiative, work fast, and do a great job.
• Strive for better – Be bold. Challenge the norm – make small improvements often.
• Win together – Be a team-player. Win together, learn together, respect each other.