Legal Assistant

Our Firm

American Century Investments® is a leading global asset manager focused on delivering investment results and building long-term client relationships while supporting research that can improve human health and save lives. Founded in 1958, the firm’s 1,400 employees serve financial professionals, institutions, corporations, and individual investors, offering a wide range of investment strategies across a variety of investment disciplines.

We are committed to providing institutional-quality, actively managed solutions with a performance-centered mindset. Our expertise spans global growth equity, global value equity, disciplined equity, multi-asset strategies, global fixed income, alternatives, and ETFs.

Privately controlled and independent, we focus solely on investment management. This empowers us to align our decisions with client expectations and concentrate on their long-term money management needs.

Our culture of winning behaviors exemplifies our dedication to clients every single day. Delivering investment results enables us to distribute over 40% of our dividends—more than $1.8 billion — to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, a 500-person, non-profit basic biomedical research organization with a controlling interest in American Century Investments. Our dividend payments provide ongoing financial support for the Institute’s work of uncovering the causes, treatments, and prevention of life-threatening diseases, like cancer.

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Job Summary

Provide project management, legal, and technical support to the Legal Department’s Securities and Corporate Group staff in the areas of regulatory disclosure of American Century Investment companies, technical innovation, and agreement drafting and administration related to mutual funds and ETFs.

This hybrid position will be based out of our Kansas City, MO office.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Securities Attorneys, team members, and internal and external business partners (Financial Reporting, Investment Reporting, Investment Management, Auditors, and Fund Counsel) to ensure the operational success of the fund lifecycle through effective project management, organization, coordination, and timely communication.
• Compile, analyze, draft, review, and otherwise manage information from various sources for purposes of assisting attorneys in disclosure-related issues,
• Prepare project timelines and monitor progress to ensure that attorneys and clients have resolved all outstanding issues and all deadlines are met.
• Coordinate, review, and handle required filings, including the electronic filing of documents with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
• Collaborate with the Regulatory Communications Manager on the development and implementation of enhancements to controls and procedures.
• Document processes. This includes working with the Regulatory Communications Manager to identify areas for documentation, researching the process, and providing documentation and training for teammates.
• Draft, revise, and seek necessary approvals for contracts and amendments to contracts between various American Century entities and American Century funds.
• Provide assistance and support for additional Legal Department projects, including trading agreements, board material preparation, and legal research.

Required Qualifications

• 3-5 years of legal assistance experience.
• A bachelor’s degree in a related field (i.e., Legal Studies, Project Management, etc.) or relevant experience.
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing, with individuals at all levels.
• Strong organizational and project management skills. Accuracy and attention to detail. Ability to balance multiple priorities, organizational systems, and technology.
• Ability to operate Microsoft Office (Word & Excel) and other software programs related to corporate filings and document management. Willingness to embrace new technologies.
• Highly motivated self-starter with the ability to work under pressure, meet deadlines, resolve priorities, plan, organize, and follow through on assignments with minimal supervision.
• Champions a strong team environment.
• Ability to apply critical thinking in day-to-day processes.
• Ability to handle confidential information sensitively.
• Exhibits the American Century Investments Winning Behaviors: Client Focused, Courageous and Accountable, Collaborative, Curious and Adaptable, Competitively Driven, Adheres to the highest ethical standards and business practices, and Supports a culture of compliance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Legal experience, paralegal degree, or financial industry experience, preferred.

Additional Requirements:

Employees are required to be in the office on a scheduled frequency. Adherence to this schedule is essential to fulfilling the expectations of the role.

American Century Investments is committed to complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act and all other applicable Equal Employment Opportunity laws and regulations. As such, American Century strives to provide a reasonable accommodation to any qualified individual under the ADA to perform essential job functions.

American Century Investments believes all individuals are entitled to equal employment opportunity and advancement opportunities without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age for individuals forty years of age and older, military and veteran status, sexual orientation, and any other basis protected by applicable federal, state and local laws. ACI does not discriminate or adopt any policy that discriminates against an individual or any group of individuals on any of these bases.

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