Paralegal
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Junior
Bachelor's
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
HybridHybrid role; collaboration during UAE business hours.
LegalLegal Counsel & Legal Support
About the job
Requirements
- A bachelor's degree in law or a recognized paralegal or legal studies qualification is required; admission as a lawyer is not required.
- 1 to 2 years of experience as a paralegal, legal operations professional, contract administrator, or in a similar role within a law firm or in-house legal team.
- Practical experience supporting signature workflows, trackers, repositories, and corporate records.
- Clear written and verbal English and the ability to summarize information concisely.
- Confidence using Word, Excel or Google Workspace, e-signature tools, and document or contract management systems.
- Sound judgment on what can be handled through an approved process and what must be escalated.
- Ability to work across multiple jurisdictions and priorities, including collaboration during UAE business hours.
- Handle confidential, personal, and commercially sensitive information in accordance with applicable policies and access requirements.
Responsibilities
- Manage intake and administrative triage of legal requests, checking that instructions and supporting documents are complete before routing matters according to agreed priorities and timelines.
- Prepare initial drafts of routine documents using approved templates and playbooks, including NDAs, order forms, addenda, vendor agreements, and customer documents.
- Conduct initial completeness and consistency checks, identify deviations from approved templates or playbooks, and refer deviations to the Legal team for review.
- Coordinate internal approvals, signatures, filing, and distribution, while maintaining a complete record of requests, approvals, and final executed documents.
- Monitor renewal dates, expiry dates, notice periods, and contractual follow-up actions, and notify the Legal team of upcoming deadlines.
- Maintain the legal review register, contract repository, vendor and matter trackers, corporate calendar, and other legal records, ensuring information remains complete, accurate, and current.
- Apply consistent naming, filing, version-control, and access standards across legal documents and repositories.
- Support maintenance of approved templates, playbooks, checklists, and precedent libraries under the Legal team’s direction.
- Assist with legal workflow automation and approved AI-enabled processes, conduct initial quality checks, and refer outputs requiring legal judgment for review.
- Compile status reports covering open matters, responsible stakeholders, deadlines, blockers, ageing, and required follow-up actions.
- Assist with entity maintenance and preparation and organization of corporate records, board and shareholder documents, powers of attorney, licences, KYC packages, and required filings.
- Support regulatory submissions, licence maintenance, audits, and due diligence by collecting, checking, organizing, and tracking supporting information and evidence.
- Maintain checklists and calendars for corporate, regulatory, and filing requirements, and notify the Legal team of upcoming deadlines or missing information.
- Conduct targeted legal and regulatory research under the Legal team’s direction and prepare concise summaries identifying relevant sources and key findings for review.
- Coordinate with internal stakeholders to obtain complete instructions, approvals, and supporting materials required by the Legal team.
- Communicate applicable legal processes, documentation requirements, and matter status using approved guidance, and refer substantive or non-standard legal questions to the appropriate lawyer.
- Follow up proactively on outstanding actions and deadlines, and promptly alert the Legal team to identified gaps, delays, or potential risks.
- Support legal and project meetings by preparing relevant materials, recording action items, and monitoring their completion.
About the company
AlaanPay helps businesses manage expenses with unlimited physical and virtual multi-currency corporate cards and per-card spending controls. It automates expense reporting by letting team members submit receipts online and auto-verify them for finance review. Real-time transaction alerts and built-in spend analytics provide visibility and identify savings opportunities, with cashback benefits reported by customers. Its goal is to help businesses optimize spending, reduce manual work in expense management, and improve financial visibility.
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
Series A
Total Funding
$55.1M
Headquarters
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Founded
2021
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- September 3, 2026 CBUAE approval opens stored-value and retail payment services.
- February 2026 SuperPay added supplier payments to 40-plus countries with zero transfer fees.
- June 2026 AI-native business bank account deepens workflows and expands monetization across finance teams.
What critics are saying
- September 2026 approvals remain in-principle only; final CBUAE rejection blocks customer funds.
- Alaan depends on ruya’s banking rails; partner failures disrupt payments and card issuance.
- Banks and spend platforms like Wio, Brex, and Ramp compress pricing and retention.
- If UAE licensing stalls into 2027, Alaan stays a software wrapper, not a bank.
What makes Alaan unique
- June 2026: Alaan bundled cards, payments, invoicing, and accounting into one AI-native workflow.
- September 2026: 3,000+ finance teams use Alaan across G42, Careem, Tabby, and Lulu.
- Alaan’s Shariah-compliant corporate cards and zero-fee cross-border transfers target UAE finance operations.
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Benefits
- Flexible Work Hours
- Competitive Salary
- Company Equity
- Phone/Internet Stipend
- Gym Membership