Receptionist & Legal Assistant

RECEPTIONIST
  
A permanent opportunity as a Receptionist in a well-known and prominent West End law firm with branches across London!
  
RECEPTIONIST ROLE:

• Managing reception area and meeting rooms to ensure smooth office operations
• Greeting clients professionally and offering refreshments before meetings
• Handling mainline calls and managing new enquiries
• Managing postal duties efficiently
• Providing ad hoc administrative support to solicitors, including generating client invoices and recording payments in the legal case management system
• Creating user accounts and requesting deeds on the Land Registry portal
• Preparing and dispatching property deeds to clients
• Archiving closed client files in Microsoft Excel
• Replenishing office supplies as needed
• Reporting office maintenance issues to suppliers or the Operations Manager
• Coordinating with IT Support to resolve technical issues

• Minimum 12 months of corporate reception experience
• Existing right to work in the UK
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Highly organised with a proactive approach
• Proficient in Microsoft 365 and able to quickly adapt to internal systems
• Team player with a willingness to support beyond primary duties
• Comfortable with working 5 days in the office
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities
• Skilled in Microsoft Excel and Word

• 25 days’ holiday plus 8 bank holidays
• Birthday off
• Office closure from Christmas to New Year
• Expanding wellbeing programme with initiatives and benefits, including EAP services
• Monthly social events
• Heavily subsidised annual team trip
• Bicycle funding through the Cycle to Work Scheme
• Group Life Assurance Scheme providing financial support to families in the event of an unexpected death