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Company Description AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas - immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit . Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn. Job Description AbbVie seeks a Corporate Governance Senior Paralegal to join the Legal Division's Corporate Governance group. This position reports to the Associate Counsel, Corporate Legal and Governance and manages subsidiary corporate governance and assists with other corporate governance projects, as needed. Core Responsibilities: Lead the maintenance and oversight of AbbVie's global affiliates, including the formation and dissolution of legal entities and managing director slates. Prepare and conduct substantive and critical reviews of documents, such as consents, resolutions, certifications, and minutes requiring the signature of corporate officers; exercise judgment to escalate documents needing further attention to attorneys within the legal department. Proactively identify and address governance needs within AbbVie's structure, considering evolving regulations, changing corporate priorities, and leadership sensitivities. Manage regular reviews of corporate entities with third-party providers, outside counsel, internal stakeholders, and colleagues in local jurisdictions to ensure the accuracy of corporate records. Manage official subsidiary records and the subsidiary database, maintaining the entity management system by cleaning up existing records and keeping up-to-date information on entity names, stockholders, directors, and officers/managers. Handle subsidiary board meeting logistics where required. Collaborate cross-functionally and externally to coordinate required actions at the subsidiary level; support finance, tax, and treasury teams in efforts related to bank accounts, subsidiary restructurings, and other requests. Work with service providers to obtain corporate documents (e.g., certificates of good standing and legalizations). Provide support to company attorneys in connection with special projects, as needed. Stay current on best practices in entity management, and develop templates, plans, and processes. Identify and execute opportunities to improve efficiencies related to the above tasks. Assist in managing, preparing, and processing general administrative matters, including copying and filing; responsible for updating various contact lists (including internal and external counsel, directors, finance directors, etc.) and verifying/updating data in various databases. Qualifications Qualifications Bachelor's Degree and/or ABA approved Paralegal Certificate. Minimum 5 years' experience within a law firm or Legal Department of a corporation, preferably in a corporate governance setting. Skills & Knowledge Comfortable managing a direct report. Discretion and strong communication skills required to effectively gather relevant information from internal and external clients and interact with others, both inside and outside the Company. Strong organizational, project management, and multitasking skills to manage multiple competing matters, meet required work deadlines, and follow-up on outstanding requests. Proactive and enthusiastic with strong customer service mindset. Ability to work effectively across the global enterprise, dealing with stakeholders at all levels of the organization and in various cultures. Familiar with entity organization tools (e.g., Diligent) and iManage. Flexibility to take on special projects and/or additional responsibilities, as needed. Additional Information Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: "‹ "‹ The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future."‹ We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees."‹ This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. "‹ "‹ Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie's policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status. US & Puerto Rico only - to learn more, visit US & Puerto Rico applicants seeking a reasonable accommodation, click here to learn more: Salary: $80,500 - $153,000