I am extremely excited to be working with one of my favourite clients as they look to recruit a legal secretary. Due to expansion they are looking to appoint a Secretary to help out with real estate documents.
The role will involve support partners and fee earners and trainee solicitors. In an ideal world you will have previous experience within a law firm and real estate.
The role:
- Preparation of hard and soft copy engrossments and other legal documents
- Copy-typing and digital dictation as required
- Amending and formatting documents
- PDF conversions
- Assisting with weekly/monthly reporting
- Proof reading and quality checking of documents and correspondence
- Working within Excel documents
- Diary and email management for the fee-earners within your team
- Travel arrangements and handling telephone enquiries as and when required
- Processing fee-earner expenses
- Managing workflow to the Document & Design Centre, Print Room etc as required; proactively taking steps to ensure work is returned within required timescales
- Liaison with Finance and other business support teams
- Assisting across other teams when necessary
Experience:
- Experience within real estate
- Experience within a law firm
- Good knowledge with Excel
- Fantastic attention to detail
Benefits:
- Working from home 50% of the time
- Cycle to work scheme
- 50% towards your gym membership
- Bonus scheme
- 25 days holiday which will increase to 28
- Loyalty awards
To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.