This opportunity sits within a legal services environment supporting regulatory, technology, commercial, compliance, and corporate governance matters. The role offers broad exposure across multiple practice groups and business areas, with responsibility for legal research, document review, matter management, reporting, and cross-functional coordination. This company is a major multinational energy organisation with operations spanning upstream, downstream, and lower-carbon initiatives, offering a technically varied and business-critical setting.
Required Experience:
- Minimum of five years of professional experience involving legal support, regulatory matters, technology-related matters, commercial transactions, compliance, corporate governance, matter management, complex document review, or comparable work
- Demonstrated ability to learn new subject areas, processes, systems, and stakeholder environments and to transition effectively across changing assignments
- Experience analysing complex legal, regulatory, technical, commercial, and business information and producing clear, objective summaries for review
- Experience supporting matter intake, tracking, reporting, document management, and follow-up activities through to completion
- Experience working across broad functional and organisational lines with attorneys, business partners, subject matter experts, outside counsel, and staff
Required Skills:
- Strong legal and factual research capability, with the ability to identify relevant facts, issues, dependencies, deadlines, and potential risks
- Strong document preparation, review, revision, proofreading, editing, and organisational skills using approved templates and guidance
- Excellent matter-management, analytical, and prioritisation skills, with the ability to manage varied deadlines, competing priorities, and changing workload demands
- Clear and effective written and verbal communication skills, including collaboration in both in-person and virtual environments
- Ability to maintain accurate, complete, and timely information in matter-management systems, collaboration platforms, trackers, and repositories
- Digital fluency including proficiency with Microsoft 365 and the ability to learn and apply approved AI-enabled tools, automation, analytics, and digital solutions responsibly
- Sound judgment, discretion, and professionalism when handling confidential, privileged, personal, technical, and business-sensitive information
- Continuous improvement mindset with the ability to identify opportunities for simplification, standardisation, automation, or removal of non-value-added work
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience supporting more than one legal practice area, business unit, or type of legal work
- Experience supporting regulatory, technology, commercial, compliance, corporate governance, privacy, cybersecurity, intellectual property, or other cross-functional legal matters
- Experience reviewing and summarising legal, regulatory, technical, commercial, or business documents and information
- Experience with matter-management, reporting, analytics, document-management, or collaboration technologies such as Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Power BI, or comparable tools
- Bachelor's degree, paralegal certificate, law degree, or other relevant education or professional training
- Equivalent combinations of education, professional training, certifications, and relevant experience will be considered