Senior Paralegal

Overview

Senior paralegal supporting legal, risk, compliance for global battery storage ops

Key Responsibilities

• contract review
• legal tech
• process improvement
• compliance monitoring
• document management
• workflow design

Tasks

-Lead legal request triage and contract review, maintain tracking systems, and enable timely, accurate responses aligned with continuous improvement. -Conducting cross-jurisdictional legal research and translating findings into actionable insights for strategic decisions. -Drive process improvement and legal tech adoption to streamline workflows, enhance consistency, and support contract management, compliance, and spend tracking. -Support compliance monitoring by tracking contractual and regulatory obligations, collaborating across teams to ensure requirements are met, and contributing to internal compliance resources under lawyer supervision. -Monitoring and interpreting regulatory changes, advising on business impacts, and supporting proactive compliance planning. -Evaluating and implementing legal tech tools, training others, and leveraging platforms like contract lifecycle, compliance, and spend systems. -Communicating clearly and building trust across legal, business, and external stakeholders to support smooth operations. -Leading workflow design and process improvements, tracking legal metrics, and enhancing team efficiency. -Support governance and legal operations by maintaining corporate records, coordinating board documentation, managing legal budgets, and improving document systems for accuracy and compliance. -Conduct legal research across jurisdictions, monitor regulatory developments, and prepare lawyer-reviewed insights and updates for internal stakeholders. -Managing complex legal information with precision, structuring workflows to meet competing deadlines, and proactively identifying compliance risks. -Designing and maintaining compliant, confidential, and audit-ready legal document systems with strong version control.

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Benefits

-Professional Development Support including annual development allowance, additional paid time off, and internal academy courses. -Competitive pay with above-market performance bonuses and long-term incentives. -Centrally located offices, and a genuinely flexible and hybrid approach to workdays. -Benefits such as annual wellbeing allowance, paid parental leave, and mobile phone allowance.

About Akaysha Energy

-Develops mega-scale Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), including projects like Waratah Super Battery and Brendale BESS. -Leverages Tesla Megapack technology to provide energy arbitrage, frequency control, and grid support in Australia’s National Electricity Market (NEM). -Specializes in energy markets, techno-economic modeling, grid connection, engineering, contracting, and asset operations. -Innovates financial instruments, such as the Battery Revenue Swap with Gunvor, to ensure revenue certainty. -Balances ambitious infrastructure projects with agile execution, rapidly deploying large-scale energy storage solutions across Australia.

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