Our thriving Manchester office is looking for a Legal
Secretary to join our team. We need you to be an organised,
professional individual who has a "can do" attitude and
willing to go that extra mile to help colleagues at all times.
Our Firm
Squire Patton Boggs is one of the world's strongest
integrated law firms, committed to providing insight at the point
where law, business and government meet. We deliver commercially
focused business solutions by combining our legal, lobbying and
political capabilities and invaluable connections on the ground to a
diverse mix of clients, from long-established leading corporations
to emerging businesses, start-up visionaries and sovereign nations.
More than 1,500 lawyers in 40 offices on four continents provide
unrivalled access to expertise. In the UK, we have offices in
Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and London.
Our Team
You will be supporting the Corporate practice group
providing secretarial and administration support. You'll be
reporting into the Manchester office Secretarial Services Manager
and will be working alongside Partners and Associates and other Secretaries.
Our Opportunity
In this dynamic and busy role, no two days will be the
same. This role would be ideal for someone who is an experienced
Secretary with exposure to supporting at Partner level in a national
or global law firm.
You'll work alongside the existing teams as well as
taking ownership of complex billing tasks and client reporting;
client and matter inceptions (including understanding KYC
requirements); extensive diary management and dealing with
international travel.
You must have a positive and professional approach at
all times, and work efficiently in a very busy team.
Monday-Friday, 9.00am-5.00pm - Hybrid working
available
You
As this is a varied role, you'll need to be an
organised, proactive individual who can easily prioritise and juggle
workloads. You'll need to have the flexibility to assist other
departments when required. You should also be able to use your
initiative and spot where help is needed with limited supervision.
You'll also have experience of complex billing, client
inceptions, managing busy inboxes and extensive diary management.
Proven experience of working in a law firm is essential.
As you will be dealing with clients of the firm,
excellent communication skills are key for this role. Ideally,
you'll have good knowledge of all Microsoft packages along with
strong keyboard skills, and a good eye for detail is a must.
You will have a minimum of 5 years' experience of
working in a professional service firm.
What you need to know
If you are interested in finding out more about this
role, please visit our Careers website at
www.squirepattonboggs.com/en/careers in the first instance. We will
be reviewing applications on an ongoing basis, please complete an
online application.
We are an inclusive employer and aim to ensure our
workforce is representative of our diverse society. We welcome
applications regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity and
expression, age, neuro diversity or disability status, family or
parental status, race, religion or ethnicity. We will make
reasonable adjustments and adaptions to our recruitment process to
ensure it is inclusive for anyone who wishes to apply. We may
collect relevant data for monitoring as part of our candidate
registration process.
