Description

By joining Sedgwick, you'll be part of something truly meaningful. It's what our 33,000 colleagues do every day for people around the world who are facing the unexpected. We invite you to grow your career with us, experience our caring culture, and enjoy work-life balance. Here, there's no limit to what you can achieve.

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Experienced Paralegal - In house Legal

Job Location: South Africa

Job Type: Permanent

Remuneration: Competitive salary taking into account skills, experience and qualifications

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced paralegals to join our in-house Legal team.

Join Sedgwick's in-house Legal team as a Paralegal, working closely with legal counsel across a varied, fast-paced remit spanning disputes, corporate governance, and legal operations. This role places you at the centre of legal activity, offering direct exposure to high-value matters while supporting the delivery of pragmatic, business-focused legal solutions.

Within this role, you will support UK disputes and litigation through structured case management, maintaining records, organising evidence, and tracking deadlines and key procedural milestones. You will liaise with stakeholders and external advisers, helping to coordinate activity and ensure matters progress efficiently.

Alongside this, you will contribute to company secretarial and governance requirements, assisting with corporate filings, statutory records, and maintenance of entity data. Your attention to detail will support compliance and ensure accurate, well-managed documentation across the business.

In parallel, you will assist with due diligence relating to Sedgwick's contractor network, maintaining records, tracking documentation, and supporting onboarding and compliance processes. Your organisation and follow-through will be key to ensuring consistency and risk control.

Equally, you will maintain and enhance legal records and document systems, ensuring materials are clearly indexed, securely stored, and easily accessible. By improving trackers and processes, you will support an efficient, well-run legal function.

As the role develops, there may be opportunities to support international work in line with business needs. This position suits a proactive, detail-focused individual seeking broad in-house experience within a collaborative and professional environment.

The skills you will have when you apply:

• Legal Qualification and Procedural Awareness - Law degree, equivalent qualification, or paralegal/corporate support experience, with working knowledge of litigation, disputes, and legal case management.
• Governance and Secretarial Knowledge - Awareness of company secretarial duties, statutory filings, entity maintenance, and corporate governance documentation.
• Organisation and Communication - Strong organisational discipline, high attention to detail, and clear written and verbal communication.
• Systems and Multi-Matter Management - Confidence using databases, document systems, and Microsoft Office, with the ability to manage competing priorities across jurisdictions.
• Confidentiality and Commercial Judgement - Professional discretion, sound judgement, and a pragmatic, commercially aligned approach, with willingness to learn internal systems and processes.
• Global Legal Operations Experience - Exposure to in-house legal environments, including disputes, governance, and international coordination, supporting legal operations, document control, and due diligence.

What we'll give you for this role:

Remuneration & more

• Competitive salary taking into account skills, experience and qualifications
• A Self Invested Personal Pension Scheme, including life & disability cover
• Holiday allowance of 20 days plus bank holidays
• Flexible working from our office or your home

Health & support

• Private healthcare plan (including pre-existing conditions)

Other benefits

• Structured programmes with clear timescales & transparent career pathways
• Fully supported professional qualifications with rewards

This isn't just a position, it's a pivotal role in shaping our industry

At Sedgwick, not only will you be working behind the scenes for some of the UK's most trusted insurance brands helping to resolve millions of claims every year, you'll also be an architect of tomorrow's insurance landscape with Sedgwick University. Our proprietary offering is the most comprehensive training and development program in the industry with more than 15,000 courses on demand, training specific to roles, and opportunities to continue your formal education - all available to you starting from your very first day.

You'll join a community passionate about making a difference, where every role contributes to a larger mission; protecting people and businesses. This isn't just a job; it's an opportunity to shape the future of insurance.

Next steps for you:

Think we'd be a great match? Apply now - we want to hear from you.

As part of our commitment to you, we are proud to have a zero tolerance policy towards discrimination of any kind regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital/ family status, race, religion, sex or sexual orientation.

After the closing date we will review all applications, and may select some applicants for an interview (which may be virtual, or in-person).

Sedgwick is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

The statements contained in this document are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by a colleague assigned to this description. They are not intended to constitute a comprehensive list of functions, duties, or local variances. Sedgwick retains the discretion to add or to change the duties of the position at any time.