Paralegal

Job Description

Job Title: Paralegal

Working Pattern: Full time

Location: London / Hybrid

Why Rolls Royce?

An exciting opportunity has become available for a Paralegal to join our team.

Rolls-Royce & Partners Finance Limited (“RRPF”) is the world’s largest engine leasing business for Rolls-Royce aircraft engines and IAE V2500-A5 engines, providing medium and long-term leasing solutions for spare engines. We support over 50 customers worldwide with a portfolio of over 420 engines.

Join us and we’ll provide an environment where you can be yourself. An inclusive, digital-first culture that invests in you, gives you a platform for continuous learning, and access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities to grow your career.

Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home or another remote location. It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, frequency will depend on business needs, nature of role, what works for the team and for the individual. Discover more on our GBS Service Portal about hybrid working.

We offer excellent development, a competitive salary and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

What you will be doing :

• Preparation of a closing agenda detailing the CPs and documents required to be satisfied by the parties prior to closing.
• Review the CPs in line with RRPF pro-forma documentation (including insurance certificates, letters of credit, corporate certificates, recognition of rights agreement) and negotiate with the customer until an agreed format is reached.
• Obtaining fee quotes from and liaising with local counsel.
• Execution coordination – responsible for organising signing of various transaction documents in accordance with RRPF’s signing process.
• Preparation and management of the closing mechanics process in line with RRPF pro-forma closing mechanics.
• Liaise with the different teams within RRPF to facilitate smooth closing.
• Responsible for ensuring all post-closing contractual actions are completed, including chasing customer and escalating internally.

• E-filing and post-closing administration - E-filing of all RRPF contracts: lease agreements, sale agreements, maintaining local law legal opinion library, insurance certificates, security filings.
• Contract management, administration and Compliance

What We’re looking for:

Being a part of Rolls-Royce you’ll know we embrace agility, are bold, pursue collaboration and seek simplicity in everything we do. These principles form our values and behaviours and are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles

• Accuracy and attention to detail are essential.
• Ability to work under pressure and prioritise workloads to meet demanding deadlines and differing time zones.
• Excellent organisational skills.
• Well-developed interpersonal, diplomacy, communication, influencing and negotiations skills.
• Flexible, a strong team player, open to new ideas and robust.
• Ability to understand business problems and propose solutions with customer focus.
• Highly motivated and capable of working under own initiative or in a team environment.
• Desirable: Experience of legal drafting, negotiating, and administering aircraft engine or other aviation asset leases.
• Desirable: a degree or equivalent qualification in Law or a related subject.

The professional level and salary of the position will be dependent on the skills and experience of the successful candidate.

It is advised that you inform your current manager of your application for this role.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy here

Closing date: 02.10.2024

Job Category

Commercial

Posting Date

18 Sept 2024; 00:09

Posting End Date

17 Sept 2024