About the Team Secretary - Real Estate Transactions Role
We have an opportunity for an experienced Legal Secretary to join our Sheffield office, providing a high-quality and efficient secretarial service to fee-earners and trainee solicitors in a busy Real Estate Transactions team. Reporting directly to the Secretarial Services Manager, responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
- 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
Qualifications for Team Secretary - Real Estate Transactions
You will need to be adaptable to change whilst maintaining a professional approach, demonstrating high levels of client care, organisational and time management skills. You will have gained real estate experience within a law firm demonstrating a proactive and enthusiastic approach with high levels of IT literacy, superb attention to detail and the ability to learn new systems quickly.
**What's in it for you?
We want to reward you today and help you plan for tomorrow. We appreciate that everyone is different, therefore we have designed a benefits system that offers choice and flexibility based on individual needs and lifestyles. To name a few, these include:
- Competitive basic salary (reviewed annually)
- Generous bonus scheme
- Up to 25 days holiday (rising to 28 days with service)
- Holiday exchange scheme
- Private medical insurance
- Enhanced parental leave
- Reasonable adjustments and accommodation for disabled talent in accordance with the Equality Act 2010.