Paralegal

Job number
- Paralegal
- Date posted
- Jun 12, 2023
- Job category
- Finance / Legal
- Level of experience
- Job type
- Full time
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Work site
- Lausanne
- Company
-JOB BENEFITS

Pleasant work environment

Learning and development

Employee benefits

Attractive compensation

Career guidance

About ELCA

We are ELCA, one of the largest Swiss IT tribe with over 2,000 experts. We are multicultural with offices in Switzerland, Spain, France, Vietnam and Mauritius. Since 1968, our team of engineers, business analysts, software architects, designers and consultants provide tailor-made and standardized solutions to support the digital transformation of major public administrations and private companies in Switzerland. Our activity spans across multiples fields of leading-edge technologies such as AI, Machine & Deep learning, BI/BD, RPA, Blockchain, IoT and CyberSecurity.
Your role

As our Paralegal you will support our Legal Team with organizational and administrative task, for example:

- Actively shape the digitalization and optimization of our contract and process landscape
- Maintain and evolve the portfolio of the Group’s standard contracts
- Maintain and evolve the contract lifecycle management tool as well as support the operative businesses with their legal administrative task in contract lifecycle management
- Administrate ELCA’s intellectual property rights portfolio in cooperation with external service providers
- Groupwide corporate housekeeping in collaboration with the Corporate Secretary including coordinating the evolution of group entities and updating data in the relevant commercial registers, support their corporate actions by planning and organizing shareholders’ and board meetings, and maintaining structure charts and entity lists
- Support the legal professionals in their day-to-day work
Our offer
- A challenging and professional working environment in a dynamic team with extensive expertise
- Interesting and varied tasks in the field of IT solutions.
- Involvement with the most advanced technology projects (e.g., cloud management, legal tech)
- Significant on-the-job autonomy
- A welcoming environment and a young, motivated and friendly team
- A flat hierarchy and cross-sector collaboration
- Flexible working hours
- Home office
Your profile
- Completed basic commercial education (KV), ideally at a law firm or notary's office, or basic legal education (BSc in Business Law), preferably with further training as a paralegal
- 3 - 5 years of experience in a comparable position at a law firm, an inhouse legal department or a similar position
- Joy in information technology, information systems and processes
- Interested in a broad range of legal topics and proactively working independently with team members and external services providers in Switzerland and abroad
- Demonstrated experience with contract lifecycle management and respective IT tools are an advantage
- Excellent communication skills in English and French and German (strong asset)