Junior Funds Paralegal
Job Description
About the opportunity
Scissero is recruiting a Junior Funds Paralegal to join its Legal Operations team. This is a fully remote, full-time opportunity for candidates based in Johannesburg or Cape Town, South Africa.
Scissero is an AI-enhanced legal-services company supporting financial institutions. The successful candidate will work under the Senior Funds Lawyer and assist with corporate structure charts, fund-formation documentation and legal-operational processes for private equity and corporate M&A clients across APAC and United States jurisdictions.
The role also involves working with Scissero’s Product team to test and improve AI-enabled tools used in legal-documentation and fund-formation processes.
Key responsibilities
• Prepare, update and maintain corporate structure charts for private equity and corporate M&A clients.
• Review corporate formation documents, shareholder registers, investor agreements and ownership records.
• Verify corporate ownership and legal-entity information.
• Assist with legal documentation for corporate transactions.
• Coordinate with clients and team members across APAC and United States time zones.
• Maintain project trackers, monitor timelines and prepare progress reports.
• Support the preparation, filing and management of business-entity documentation.
• Work with the Product team to test and improve AI-enabled legal tools.
• Identify repetitive legal-documentation tasks that may benefit from automation.
• Maintain confidentiality and support compliance across relevant jurisdictions.
Requirements
• No specific legal qualification or previous funds experience is required.
• A law degree, paralegal qualification, or experience in company secretarial work, fund administration, KYC or governance support would be beneficial.
• Willingness to learn corporate structures, fund-formation processes and entity documentation.
• Strong attention to detail and document-management skills.
• Good analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively within a distributed international team.
• High proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
• Interest in legal technology, artificial intelligence and process improvement.
• Ability to maintain strict confidentiality when handling legal and client information.
Beneficial experience
Previous experience with investment-fund operations, ownership-structure reviews, corporate transactions, M&A due diligence, KYC, governance support or company-secretarial work would be valuable, but is not stated as mandatory.
Benefits stated by the Employer
• Remote-working arrangements.
• Paid sick leave.
• Employee Assistance Programme support.
• Seven days of paid study leave per year for exams and structured learning.
• Discretionary performance-based annual bonus.
• Twenty days of annual leave, plus public holidays.
• Professional-development opportunities.
Employment information
Location: Johannesburg or Cape Town, South Africa
Work arrangement: Fully remote
Employment type: Full-time
Working hours: 09:00 to 18:00 British time
Salary: Not disclosed
Closing date: Not disclosed by the Employer
Last verified by OpportunityZA: 20 October 2026
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