Paralegal (f/m/d)

Upvest, founded in 2017, enables any financial institution to offer great investment experiences to its customers. Upvest is an investment firm regulated by the German supervision authority (BaFin). The company currently employs 200+ people across Europe with its headquarters based in Berlin, Germany.

The company is backed by the world’s largest venture capital funds and investors including Hedosophia, Sapphire, Bessemer Venture Partners, BlackRock, Earlybird, HV Capital and Notion Capital, as well as by renowned fintech entrepreneurs (including Maximilian Tayenthal, founder of N26, and Felix Haas, founder of IDnow).

We’re looking for fintech enthusiasts to join us in creating the financial infrastructure of tomorrow. We’re building the first European Investment API to enable any financial institution offering a wide range of efficient and transparent investment products, such as stocks and ETFs in nominal, portfolio, and fractional form. Our mission and vision is to make investing as easy as spending money.

Our HQ is based in Berlin and we operate a hybrid working environment. We are looking for a highly motivated Paralegal reporting to the GC to provide support across the legal team. This role offers a unique opportunity to understand Upvest’s business processes and work on a wide array of legal and regulatory matters in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Your mission:

• Be part of the story to build an easily accessible investment product with regulatory excellence reaching 100m end users.

• Provide support to the legal team at Upvest in the UK and Germany.

• Enhance your legal skills, and make a significant impact in a leading fintech company. 

This role will give you the opportunity to:

• Collaborate with the legal team to provide assistance on a variety of legal and regulatory issues, including financial regulations, commercial contracts, consumer T&Cs and privacy. 

• Assist with updating legal and compliance documents such as policies and manuals, as well as drafting, reviewing and executing a broad range of legal documents, including NDAs and commercial contracts. 

• Manage legal operations by improving and scaling processes to ensure efficiency and effectiveness using legal tech.

• Maintain and organizing the contracts database, and generally leading on document management. 

• Assisting with general administrative tasks and ad-hoc projects to improve the processes within the Banking Team. 

About you

• A law degree or equivalent legal qualification, or working towards a legal qualification.  

• At least 1 years’ relevant experience in a commercial/corporate environment.

• Ambition to learn within the entrepreneurial spirit of the Upvest and from in-house team of experts whilst developing your own skills.

• Helpful, hardworking approach with high degree of initiative.

• Collaborative approach and ability to work well in a team.

• Flexible can-do attitude and the ability to multitask.

• Sound judgement and first-rate communication skills.

• English language skills are essential. 

Why Upvest?

• We're working on solving a hard problem: fixing the European securities financial infrastructure that empowers more people to be able to invest. You have the opportunity to contribute to this change.

• We invest in you. You get a learning development budget and plenty of opportunities to grow in your role.

• We take hiring seriously with a strong focus on keeping a high bar when interviewing (equally important is that we hire decent people, who are passionate about their craft and helping us achieve our shared mission).

• While we're not quite fully-remote, we are committed to being a flexible employer, as we understand you don't have to be in the office to do your best work.

• We live in a culture of empowerment, trust (that we hire the best people and get out of their way) and openness (there's a greater advantage in sharing information than keeping it to ourselves).

Our values:

• Learn and grow. We aim high to shape our future. We give and request honest feedback knowing that we develop together. Progression over Perfection.

• Team first. We make it easy for others. We value our differences and are open to others' opinions. We win and celebrate together! Team over Egos.

• Own the outcome. Whether we win or we lose, we stand together. We are proactive and get the job done. Outcome over Process.

• Tell the story. We always start with the why. We share knowledge to empower others. Transparency over Complexity.

Upvest is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees