Job Title:
Commercial Litigation PA
Salary:
Dependent on Experience
Location:
Manchester City Centre
Hours:
37.5 hours (Monday to Friday)
Working Arrangements:
Hybrid options available after probation
Are you a candidate looking for your next move within the law industry? Do you have experience of working as a PA or Secretary within a professional setting? The Recruitment Co. are recruiting for one of our key clients based in Manchester City Centre and this could be the perfect opportunity for you.
Job Responsibilities:
- Working as part of a dynamic and high performing team, providing proactive, effective and efficient administrative support to a busy team of fee earners, including 2 Partners and 5 Solicitors
- Diary management including scheduling internal and external meetings, room bookings, and co-ordinating and managing travel arrangements, ensuring the most cost-effective method is used
- Liaising directly with clients, contacts, and Counsels' clerks
- Completion of monthly invoicing, related financial management, collating, completing and submitting monthly expense claims
- Liaising with other departments, accounts and central management
- Assisting with the implementation of the team's business development strategies, preparing pitch / training documents / presentations and providing event support ensuring appropriate facilities, materials and catering is provided where necessary
- Assisting with file management, including performing KYC and conflict checks ahead of client engagement, preparing engagement letters and accompanying documents for sending to the client, conducting regular reviews of matter reports with a view to identifying inactive matters, reviewing ledger balances and managing the archiving process
- Undertaking typical administrative tasks including creating and formatting documents, dealing with telephone queries, filing, photocopying, printing, scanning and occasional audio / copy typing, as and when required
- Working as a team with other support staff in the department, supporting each other to ensure all work is completed, inclusive of covering each others phones and diaries, providing holiday and sickness cover as and when required
The Candidate:
- A minimum of 5 year's in a similar PA position within a professional services environment
- An outgoing and friendly manner alongside an ability to adapt and work at a fast pace
- Strong work ethic and can-do attitude
- Work well under pressure and under unexpected deadlines
- Excellent attention to detail
- Numerate and able to understand accounts for the purpose of billing, paying disbursements and assisting credit control
- IT literate, including knowledgeable use of Word and Excel programmes
- Experience of Proclaim and iManage is desirable but not essential
- Excellent time management and organisational qualities
- Pro-active and able to prioritise and manage deadlines
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Adaptable to changing work tasks
- Ability to work well on own or as part of a team
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in an assertive, professional manner
Please note that The Recruitment Co. are an equal opportunities employer
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