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ContourGlobal · 3 days ago

Sr. Legal Ops Manager & Paralegal

Houston, TX

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

10+ years exp

ContourGlobal, a KKR Company, is an established Independent Power Producer developing and operating electricity generation and storage assets worldwide. The Sr. Legal Ops Manager & Paralegal will support the design and implementation of an efficient legal function for the company's energy operations, managing legal processes and advising on corporate matters.

Clean EnergyElectronicsEnergyRenewable Energy

Responsibilities

Design, create, implement, improve, and run processes and tools that support a growing legal department, overseeing a variety of operations — managing a legal control environment, contract approval and repository technology, managing legal e-billing, and budgeting

Legal entity management of U.S. and international subsidiaries; liaise with Accounting, Tax, Treasury, and other departments to provide documentations related to subsidiary management and respond to audit requests

Negotiate draft and review NDAs based on company template and guidelines

Due diligence for financing, M&A deals, and other corporate transactions, business activities, and special projects

Develop and implement metrics and dashboards of outside counsel expenses, manage project budgets, and provide expense control, collaborating with accounting team (and FP&A, if applicable) to analyze and conduct spending trends

Facilitate contract lifecycle process and day-to-day management, collaborate with IT to simplify tracking, retention, and coordination of execution

Manage and coordinate Board of Directors, Shareholders, and other Committee meeting preparation, retention of secure records and distribution of materials, if required

Create templates or standard forms for recurring agreements

Draft and review vendor agreements, amendments, and other legal documents

Support internal lawyers with legal research, project management, filing, and other ad-hoc assignments as instructed

Support, as needed on litigation, employment/immigration, compliance/regulatory support and legal research needs

Collaborate with and support HR and employment counsel on investigations, coordinating company-wide employee training

Draft and maintain sensitive documents and records with discretion; and

Support the internal legal team, as required

Qualification

Legal operations managementContract management softwareLegal research programsPowerEnergy experienceCorporate compliance knowledgeFluency in EnglishSpanish language skillsProject managementCommunication skillsDetail-oriented

Required

Bachelor's degree from an accredited university required

10+ years of experience in paralegal and/or legal operations roles, with increasing responsibility

Experience in designing and managing implementation of legal processes for a new legal department

Experience with power, energy, and/or infrastructure companies and projects

Demonstrated exceptional ability to use industry standard technical programs, including but not limited to excellent Microsoft Office skills, Westlaw and Lexis Nexus legal research programs and contract management software

Strong command of the nexus of accounting and legal compliance

Fluency and exceptional writing skills in the English language, Spanish skills a plus