Job Details

💼 Job Title: Paralegal
🏢 Company: Sanlam Investment Group
📍 Location: Sandton, Gauteng, South Africa
🏛 Business Unit: Sanlam Alternative Investments
📄 Employment Type: Permanent

Company Overview

Sanlam Investment Group is uniquely positioned to empower generations to be financially confident, secure, and prosperous. With assets under management and administration exceeding R2 trillion, the group is one of the largest and most diversified financial services organisations in Southern Africa.

As a B-BBEE Level 1 contributor and one of the largest black-empowered asset managers on the African continent, Sanlam Investment Group delivers investment solutions across global asset classes, both public and private, actively and passively managed. Backed by the Sanlam Group’s balance sheet, the organisation maintains a strong competitive advantage and a long-standing presence in Africa of over 100 years.

Sanlam Alternative Investments focuses on driving sustainable growth across emerging African economies through private equity, specialised finance, property, infrastructure, and strategic partnerships.

Job Overview

The Paralegal role provides comprehensive secretarial, legal, and administrative support to an in-house team of legal advisors and professionals within Sanlam Alternative Investments. This position requires strong legal administration expertise, attention to detail, and the ability to manage complex legal documentation while maintaining confidentiality and compliance with legal standards.

Key Responsibilities

Word Processing and Filing

• Type, format, check, and file complex legal documentation and correspondence
• Apply and customise legal templates in accordance with house standards
• Redline agreements and prepare execution-ready document versions
• Prepare organograms and PowerPoint presentations
• Identify, query, and rectify documentation errors or inconsistencies
• Scan, store, and retrieve documents using established naming conventions
• Maintain accurate electronic and physical filing systems

Legal Administration

• Draft and review basic legal agreements and routine correspondence
• Ensure consistency in legal terminology and cross-referencing
• Assist with matter and client documentation preparation and filing
• Follow up on outstanding documentation with clients and third parties
• Prepare transaction bibles and archive closed matters
• Monitor fulfilment of conditions precedent (CPs)

Invoicing and Collections

• Gather and provide FICA documentation
• Assist finance teams with account allocations
• Process authorised expenses

General Office Support

• Answer and screen telephone calls and manage messages
• Schedule and manage diaries and meetings
• Take meeting minutes when required
• Arrange conferencing facilities, catering, and logistics
• Coordinate travel, accommodation, and event requirements
• Order and distribute stationery

Team Collaboration

• Support colleagues and contribute to team efficiency
• Maintain effective working relationships with internal departments including IT, Finance, HR, and Marketing

Qualifications

Education and Experience

• Grade 12 or Diploma
• 3 to 5 years’ relevant paralegal or legal administration experience

Skills and Knowledge

• Strong secretarial and administrative support capability
• Sound knowledge of legal terminology and legal documentation standards
• Advanced computer literacy, including MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Proficiency in document management and filing systems
• Knowledge of FICA requirements
• Understanding of regulatory and statutory environments
• Ability to prioritise work and perform under pressure
• High attention to detail with strong organisational skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Strong understanding of confidentiality and legal ethics

Personal Attributes

• Strong stakeholder management ability
• Sound decision-making capability
• Business insight and problem-solving mindset
• Ability to plan, prioritise, and align tasks effectively
• Resilient and adaptable in a fast-paced environment

Core Competencies

• Cultivates innovation
• Customer focus
• Drives results
• Collaborates effectively
• Demonstrates resilience

Benefits of Joining Sanlam

• Career growth across multiple Sanlam business clusters
• Exposure to a leading African financial services group
• Professional development and skills advancement
• Inclusive, diverse, and transformation-driven workplace
• Opportunity to build a long-term, meaningful career

Company Policy

Sanlam Group is committed to transformation, diversity, and inclusion. Employment Equity targets and the Group’s Employment Equity Plan will be considered as part of the recruitment process. All personal information provided will be handled in accordance with applicable data protection legislation.

To apply for this job please visit careers.sanlamcloud.co.za.