Corporate Legal Assistant

Summary:

We are seeking a full-time corporate legal assistant to join its growing legal team in our Montreal office. The candidate will collaborate and participate with internal teams and provide assistance to Canderel’s legal group.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Assisting in the preparation of various legal documents, including formatting, proofreading, and comparing and maintaining versions of documents
• Coordinating approvals and signatures of documents
• Filing and organizing of documents
• Assisting with filing annual reports, registrations and other various documents with the relevant authorities (Corporations Canada, Registraire des Entreprises, Ontario Business Registry, etc.)
• Tracking important filing deadlines
• Managing invoices and billing as required
• Updating summaries, lists and minute book database program of the department
• Providing administrative support on transactions and legal files
• Performing other general administrative responsibilities and procedural tasks, such as email correspondences, communicating with the Registraire des Entreprises and similar.

Qualifications & Competencies:

• CEGEP degree in administration or equivalent experience / Legal assistant certificate or equivalent experience.
• A minimum of three (3) year of professional experience in a similar position.
• Excellent oral and writing skills in French and English. Please note that due to the nature of the position, a proficient level of English is required to communicate on a regular basis with employees outside of Quebec.
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (particularly Outlook, Word and Excel).
• Knowledge of Athennian an asset (or experience with minute book database program).
• Great attention to detail.
• Priority management and ability to work with deadlines.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Strong team values.
• Autonomy and adaptability.
• Professionalism.