Corporate Paralegal – Stock and Equity Management

Responsibilities

• Compile and review contracts, team, and corporate activity data to assist the department with monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting requirements for finance and accounting.
• Utilize contract administration software to reconcile and archive active/inactive agreements regularly, support internal teams with upcoming contract expiration reminders, and be the point of contact for user questions, etc.
• Provide administrative support to the legal and internal departments as requested.
• Support preparing and gathering signatures for commercial contracts, including NDAs, vendor/supplier agreements, customer agreements, and other matters as required.
• Cook up and support the Board of Directors and Board committee meetings, including preparation and distribution of board materials and maintaining related corporate records.
• Ensure compliance with Section 16 reporting, including drafting and filing Forms 3, 4 and 5 and performing detailed compliance reviews of Forms 3 and Forms 4.
• Aid brokers with Section 16 stock matters.
• Maintain stock ownership records for Section 16 directors and officers.
• Cook up the relationship with the transfer agent.
• Administer all equity transactions, including processing stock option exercises, restricted stock unit release, restricted stock releases, granting of new equity awards, and the semi-annual ESPP program, tax withholdings, expirations, cancellations, repurchases, terminations and other plan-related actions and coaching of team members on these activities.
• Generate reports as needed for an audit, tax, and legal filings (including all aspects of financial reporting as it relates to equity plans, i.e. 10-Q, 10-K, and 14A filings).
• Cook up and provide adequate information and timely responses related to equity transactions with finance, HR, and legal departments to ensure effective transaction processing.
• Maintain supporting workbooks, perform routine audits and prepare accurate reports as needed for an audit, tax and legal filings.
• Partner regularly with internal team members and external consultants to ensure compliance, tax reporting and regulatory requirements are maintained for all stock plans.
• Ensure documentation is in place for internal and external audits as well as Sarbanes Oxley testing and compliance.
• Foster open, respectful, and professional communication directly within the team, with co-workers/ teammates, and leaders across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university preferred; equivalent work experience will be considered.
• 3+ years of experience as a corporate or general paralegal, preferably in an in-house legal department.
• Equity/Stock administration experience is required.
• Experience with Ironclad, Microsoft Office, Slack, and OneDrive is required.
• Paralegal certification is preferred.
• Excellent judgment, curiosity, integrity, dependability, collegiality, critical thinking, and strong work ethic.
• Experience in project management and advisory, construction, or energy industries.
• Experience managing entities across multiple jurisdictions.
• Working knowledge of corporate governance principles, statutory compliance requirements, and Secretary of State filing procedures.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Exceptional follow through and ability to create quality work within a face paced environment with short deadlines.
• Comfortable with, or an interest in learning about and using, the use of new technologies and software, including generative and agentic artificial intelligence.