Floating Secretary

My client is recruiting a floating legal Secretary to join their business on a permanent basisin Alconbury.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide the team and wider firm with typing, secretarial and administrative support.
• Work responsibly to support the needs of the fee earners and the priorities given delivering a quality service.
• Assist with digital dictation and administrative support across the company in line with the Company's workflow ethic.
• Transcribe and prepare all correspondence and documents through audiotyping and word processing, using Company precedents where appropriate;
• Operate case management system including storing documents electronically - organising and attaching to relevant matters;
• Deal with administrative routines as required to include scanning, faxing, printing, binding and photocopying;
• Be involved in the efficient management of client/matter files to include general filing in a timely and accurate manner together with file opening, preparation of client care letters and terms and conditions, file closure and archiving;
• Understand how to use the strong room including searching for and retrieving documents and procedures for sending out original documents;
• Meet both internal and external clients' needs and ensure they are kept advised as necessary'
• Manage incoming and outgoing mail in all mediums i.e. post, emails and fax transmissions.
• Make appointments, arrange meetings and maintain manager/fee earners diary as required;
• Monitoring compliance and Lexcel requirements;
• Conduct company checks and individual AML checks as appropriate;
• Attend clients both in person and on the telephone and to provide such support in a professional and friendly manner in keeping with the Company's standards for client care;
• Assist the Operations team when required, including switchboard cover, franking outgoing post, file archiving and hospitality;
• Assist the Business Support and Operations Team with routine and ad hoc tasks/projects;
• Be flexible as a member of the wider support team and assist with work as required, co-operating with peers and others, ensuring a co-operative team environment;
• Work within relevant administrative systems and procedures, particularly in the management of finances, recording time, preparation of bills and correspondence;
• Ensure the confidentiality of all the company's and client's information;
• Appreciation of legal procedures and Company protocols;
• Any other reasonable requests from Fee Earners and/or Managers.

Skills and experience

• Computer literacy, with strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office.
• A typing speed of at least 65 wpm/90% accuracy.
• Excellent attention to detail, including spelling and punctuation.
• An ability to communicate effectively at all levels, to remain calm and respond well in pressurised situations.
• An ability to organise own work effectively and plan well to meet required deadlines.
• Evidence of a problem solving "can-do" attitude.
• The ability to work effectively in a team environment.

The role is working Monday to Friday 37.5 hours.

Please put your home postcode on your CV when applying. Our recruitment tech uses this to make sure your CV is reviewed by the relevant consultant, for the relevant job(s), in the relevant geography.

Macildowie are a recruitment business working on behalf of a client to recruit this role. Your personal data may be forwarded to that client company as part of the application process.

If you would like information on how we will process your data please go to our website (macildowie.com) and view our fair processing notices which are located at the bottom of the page under privacy policies. Within the fair processing notice for Candidates there is guidance on how to amend your contact preferences or exercise your rights relating to personal data. We can't provide direct links as email address and website urls within our job adverts are removed by some of the websites on which we advertise.

Macildowie is a specialist recruitment consultancy with a rich history of enhancing the careers of professionals across the Midlands and the Northern Home Counties. We have an unrivalled understanding of the local market place and recruit for the majority of the region's premier employers. To search for all of our live jobs please visit us at macildowie.com.