Paralegal - Axelon Services Corporation

  
Full-time paralegal on a 6-months temporary basis with a minimum of 2-3 years of experience to join its Legal Department, with a focus on corporate entity maintenance, affiliate transactions, treasury operations and insurance company regulatory filings. The successful candidate will be expected to lead the corporate entity management process, including coordinating and communicating concisely and effectively with key stakeholders, ensuring formation and due diligence requests are completed in a timely manner, and updating internal entity management databases. The successful candidate will:

   Lead the roll out and maintenance of new legal entity management system

   Supervise the entity formation process, such as reviewing and tracking entity formation requests, and coordinating with business teams to ensure Legal obtains all formation documents 

   Oversee the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) filings process, including keeping requirements current and educating stakeholders on this matter

   Maintain and update internal documents relating to the entity management and CTA filings processes

   Be the point person for legal matters relating to Treasury Operations, such as addressing Know Your Customer requests, drafting secretary certificates, and providing incumbency certificates 

   Assist with responding to entity-related inquiries from our auditors 

   Be the main point of contact for our third-party vendors (CT Corporation and Corporation Service Company) 

   Maintain and coordinate insurance and business entity licensing, including coordinating completion of state annual reports and license renewals

   Assist with certain administrative items, such as sending invoices from our third-party vendors to Accounts Payable 

   Develop strong relationships with internal stakeholders within and outside the legal, compliance, and regulatory department 

  

• Minimum of 2-3 years of corporate paralegal experience
• Previous law firm experience or in-house legal department experience preferred
• Experience with legal entity management, corporate governance, business licenses, beneficial ownership and know-your-customer processes
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong attention to detail and highly organized
• Ability to effectively manage competing priorities in a fast-paced team environment
• Strong work ethic
• Proactive approach and self-starter
• Willingness to take ownership of matters
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) and other office applications
• Enthusiasm for embracing new technologies and learning how to use new platforms
• Prior experience with corporate records and entity management databases a plus
• Ability to work with a geographically dispersed team
• College degree
• Paralegal certification a plus