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Zepz Group is the group powering leading global remittance brands: WorldRemit and Sendwave. Zepz Group has been disrupting an industry previously dominated by offline legacy players by reducing the barriers to finance and increasing safety and convenience for users. Every day, Zepz Group and its brands work towards unlocking the prosperity of cross-border communities through finance and technology - driven by the vision of a world that celebrates migrants’ impact on prosperity, at home and abroad. Zepz served over 9+ million users through its presence in over 4,600 corridors with over 40 send countries and 90 receive countries
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Our Commitments:- We act like owners - We are relentlessly delivering for our users and spending money thoughtfully.
- We embrace embarrassing honesty - We function best when we're open and honest with one another — especially about our challenges and doubts.
- We have a bias to action - We get to first outcomes quickly, iterate and learn.
- We strive to be better - We may make mistakes, but always learn from them.
- We are inclusive - to better reflect and serve our users.
About the role
We are looking for a legal administration and legal operations paralegal to join our high performing Group Legal Team on a permanent basis. The role will be UK-based, but will support our global business. It is a highly visible role and so offers excellent exposure to a number of departments within the company as well as strong growth and development opportunities.
As a member of Zepz’s Group Legal team you will aim high, embrace challenge and always do what’s right; acting with integrity and building trust as you contribute to the company’s technical direction and long term decision making.
Reporting to a senior member of the Legal team, you will:
- Be the the primary point of contact or escalation for all NDA requests;
- Support on company secretarial activities e.g. preparing Board packs, assisting in the delivery of our entity management portfolio, monitoring of our shared company secretariat inbox;
- Support on data privacy work e.g. support the automation of data privacy impact assessments;
- Delivery of moving data points for each of our contracts into our contract management system;
- Provide support in areas such as raising purchase order , budget management and other related administrative tasks;
- Provide first and final reviews of commercial contracts and support on negotiations (e.g. SaaS, recruitment agreements, marketing services agreements), with appropriate supervision;
- Lead on legal operation projects including automation of processes, assignment of matters to our team of in-house lawyers, updates and changes to existing technology platforms, rule writing; policy writing and implementation;
- Assist with brand protection work; and
- Perform ad-hoc tasks to support the overall legal function.
What we’re looking for from you:
- Experience in developing and implementing workflows and process flows on a variety of technology platforms, including platforms similar to Jira/Atlassian, Ironclad and DocuSign, is essential.
- Recent experience working with businesses in the Payments / Financial Services sector is desirable but not essential.
- Previous legal experience obtained through study or previous work experience is desirable.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise different workstreams in line with the needs of the Legal Team and wider business.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills: ability to build and maintain good working relationships both internally and externally at all levels.
- Ability to work independently, but also a team player: fostering knowledge sharing and collaboration across different teams and departments.
What you’ll get from us
Please note that the benefits below will apply to permanent roles.We have five core benefits for our talent in the US, UK, Philippines, Poland, and South Africa. specifically:
- Unlimited Annual Leave: Feel free to make the most of your time off and maintain a healthy work-life balance!
- Private Medical Cover: You can opt-in to a Private Medical Insurance scheme. This provides you with access to thorough medical coverage, so you can feel confident in your health and well-being.
- Retirement: We offer pension schemes to help you plan for and secure your future.
- Life Assurance: Life assurance is available to give you peace of mind and protect your loved ones in case of the unexpected.
- Parental Leave: We offer competitive parental leave schemes to ensure you are spending as much quality time with your new bundle of joy as possible.
We are also remote-first as an organisation, offering flexibility for you to work where you need to be most productive. In addition to the above, you will discover that we have a range of secondary perks (such as the cycle-to-work scheme and employee discounts) depending on your location, to help you thrive at Zepz!
Why choose Zepz?- Our team of over 1,000 employees is fully distributed across the world. We are working from coffee shops, homes, and co-working spaces — making us one of the larger fully distributed growth-stage startups in the world but we also offer workspace in our talent cluster locations - spaces we can meet, collaborate and connect.
- We are proud parents, community organizers, farmers, band members, yoga teachers, YouTube influencers, former Olympians, and serial entrepreneurs.
- We collectively speak over twenty languages, including Akuapem, Amharic, Bengali, Ewe, Fante, Ga, Igbo, Kalenjin, Luganda, Oromo, Somali, Swahili, Wolof, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish.
- At Zepz, embodying our commitments binds us together. We are collectively passionate about striving to achieve our vision and purpose - to continue to provide the best service to our users.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. If interested, please submit your resume along with a cover letter (optional), highlighting why your experience demonstrates you meet the requirements of the role. Please also indicate the countries in which you have work authorization.
Confidence can sometimes hold us back from applying for a job. But we'll let you in on a secret: there's no such thing as a 'perfect' candidate. Zepz is a place where everyone can thrive.
So however you identify and whatever background you bring with you, and if at all you might need any form of support to make the process as comfortable as possible, please let us know and give us a shot by applying. We want you to be excited to wake up to make an impact every day.
