Paralegal

Geidea Established in 2008, Geidea epitomizes customer focused empowerment and commercial success through continuous innovation.

Geidea makes best in class digital payment solutions available for all by attracting and leveraging the best creative & entrepreneurial talent in the market

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To maintain a competitive advantage as we grow, we are currently looking for a new "Paralegal"

Job purpose:

Provides the Group legal function with dependable legal administration, corporate records and transaction-ready documentation. The role keeps legal deadlines, filings, signatures, records and correspondence under control across the Group and its holding companies, so that legal work is delivered on time and the Group is ready for due diligence at any point. Without it, the risks are missed filings and renewals, incomplete corporate records, delays in signing and transactions, and senior legal time diverted to administration.

Responsibilities:

• Legal operations and matter control: owns the accuracy and timeliness of the legal function’s matter, deadline and obligation trackers, so that no filing, renewal or legal deadline is missed.
• Corporate governance and entity records: maintains complete and current records for the Group’s holding companies, including statutory registers, resolutions, minutes, powers of attorney and delegations of authority.
• Data room and due diligence readiness: builds and maintains the Group’s virtual data room to a transaction-ready standard, including index, version control, access rights, question-and-answer logs and disclosure records.
• Contract execution and records: runs the approval and signing workflow, arranges notarisation, legalisation and attestation in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, and keeps the central repository of executed documents with renewal alerts.
• Correspondence, scheduling and reporting: manages the legal function’s correspondence, meeting schedules, agendas, briefing packs and action logs, and prepares periodic status reports.
• External counsel and regulatory coordination: coordinates external counsel instructions and timelines, checks invoices against agreed fees, tracks legal spend, and logs correspondence and response deadlines with regulators and authorities.
• Legal support and knowledge management: drafts internal memos, summaries, Arabic–English translations, and maintains the template, precedent and policy library.

Qualifications:

• Years of experience: minimum 8 years in paralegal, legal administration or legal secretarial roles within in-house legal departments or law firms (Must).
• Degree required: Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) or relevant degree. Registration with the Egyptian Bar Association (Preferred).
• Functional Knowledge: corporate governance documentation such as resolutions, registers and powers of attorney notarisation, commercial registry, Arabic native with full professional English, written and spoken (Must); advanced Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint (Must); data room, e-signature and matter management tools (Preferred); document attestation for Saudi Arabia and the UAE (Preferred); French (Preferred).
• Business Expertise: regulated financial services such as banking, payments or fintech (Preferred);

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