About Team / Role
WEX is seeking a self-driven and motivated individual to join our Commercial Legal team as a Commercial Paralegal. This role will be primarily responsible for supporting the commercial and transactional work of WEX’s Corporate Payments line of business in the Americas. As a new member of the team, the Commercial Paralegal will have the opportunity to utilize and enhance their subject matter experience in commercial contracts and transactional matters, particularly customer and revenue-generating agreements.
This role is flexible to work remotely from the following locations: Portland, ME, Boston, MA, New York, NY, Washington D.C., Chicago, IL, or Dallas, TX.
How You'll Make an Impact
- Draft and revise commercial contracts -- NDAs, customer contracts and other revenue generating agreements such as credit agreements, program agreements, referral agreements, technology services agreements, service level agreements, and non-disclosure agreements) accurately and in compliance with all WEX policies and risk framework.
- Review customer requested changes to the contracts, work with Corporate Payments attorneys and appropriate stakeholders for feedback/approvals and revise applicable documents accordingly.
- Assist attorneys with the preparation, review and execution of various transaction documents, forms and filings in connection with the Corporate Payments line of business in the Americas.
- Assist in the migration of legacy contracts to the company’s new contract lifecycle management system (Malbek)
- Drive contracts from intake through workflow routing and version control, to execution and post-signing tasks through our contract lifecycle management system, including: obtaining all relevant information, create and redline contracts, route contracts for internal review and approvals, send contracts for signatures, and update the contract record as needed.
- Manage legal matter workflow, including managing the legal request queue for matter intake in the workload/matter management system (Xakia), interfacing with internal stakeholders and administrative tasks related to completing matters for the Corporate Payments legal team.
- Collaborate with other support functions, including Finance, Compliance and Risk.
- Assist with strategic projects as necessary.
- Utilize excellent written and verbal communication skills and exercise sound judgment and independent decision-making.
Experience You'll Bring
- Education: Paralegal degree or certification, or bachelor's degree in Finance or Business
- Experience: 2+ years of paralegal or equivalent experience with commercial contracts and transactional matters, including drafting and generating agreements, redlining, and reviewing contract revisions and comments
- Experience with legal technologies (matter management and contract lifecycle management systems) strongly preferred.
- Experience with all aspects of a contract lifecycle management is highly preferred.
- Previous experience working in-house supporting a line of business on the customer side.
- Demonstrated ability to learn IT applications and systems
- Hard working, dependable, curious, proactive, resourceful, and consistently follow through
- Strong organizational, multi-tasking, and prioritizing skills to effectively and independently prioritize and manage a heavy workload while accountable for work product.
- Ability to work as a team player in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail and accuracy
- Collaborative, flexible, adaptable and able to work across functions in a team-oriented environment.
- Proficiency in Google Suite, Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat, and DocuSign.