Paralegal

Overview

Weatherford is a leading global energy services company. Our world-class experts partner with customers to optimize their resources and realize the full potential of their assets. Across our operating locations, including manufacturing, research and development, service, and training facilities, operators choose us for strategic solutions that add efficiency, flexibility, and responsibility to any energy operation.

We are focused on technology development, digital solutions, and defining our footprint in the new energy space. Our ability to provide integrated solutions across our segments will be critical to growth in our core operations and the energy transition.

Energy producers face unique challenges every day, so it is our job to create solutions that enhance safety, streamline operations, and sustain uptime to meet or exceed their targets. We operate across the global energy landscape employing some of the best diverse talent in the industry. At Weatherford, we understand the value each individual brings to the table. We celebrate diversity in all its forms and are immensely proud of our workforce. We invite you to join our passionate, talented, word-class team.

When you join Weatherford, you instantly feel connected to something bigger – a community that is grounded by our core values and driven to create innovative solutions for our customers. We celebrate each other’s successes, grow together, and learn from each other constantly. Individually, we are impressive. Together, we are unstoppable. We are One Weatherford.

Weatherford offers competitive compensation, a comprehensive benefits program and provides you a challenging and enriching career path, with a healthy balance of structure and flexibility to chart your own course.

Weatherford is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

Responsibilities

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Manage subsidiary entities in Switzerland and Europe and assist with ensuring the timely and accurate filing of all statutory filing and local register updates
• Draft, review, manage the lifecycle of various corporate documents (board and shareholder approvals, POAs)
• Handle various KYC requests for managed entities
• Ensure accurate and up to date internal record keeping for managed entities
• Liaise with the rest of the corporate legal team and tax team and external legal advisors
• Assist the region & corporate legal & finance teams with any entity related matters in Europe
• Assist other paralegals and attorneys with any company secretarial requests
• Coordination of signature of legal documents
• Provides guidance and support to subsidiary directors on all company secretarial related matters
• Coordinate with Houston corporate office and other tax and legal professionals for restructuring projects
• Provides general paralegal advice and support as needed and requested from time to time

Qualifications

Qualifications

• Bachelor/Master degree in Law
• Prior work experience in general paralegal duties
• Must be proficient in MS office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Very good verbal and written communication skills in English and German; French nice to have
• Legal training in corporate secretarial matters and legal drafting skills

Requirements

• Strong written and verbal communication, interpersonal, organizational, and follow-up skills
• Must be independent and able to work in a team-based environment
• Must take responsibility for effectiveness of own work
• Demonstrated success managing complex and competing organizational priorities in a fast-paced environment.  Includes ability to work unsupervised, to manage and meet tight and multiple deadlines
• Swiss working permit required.

We offer interesting tasks in an international environment. For further information about our company, please visit our homepage: www.weatherford.com