Legal Secretary Multi Department - Manchester

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 worlds strongest integrated law firms committed to providing insight at the point where law business and government meet. We deliver commercially focused business solutions to a diverse mix of clients from longestablished leading corporations to emerging businesses startup visionaries and sovereign nations.

With over 1500 lawyers spanning more than 40 offices across four continents the firm is renowned for its local connections and global influence delivering comprehensive legal services across North America Europe the Middle East Asia Pacific and Latin America. In the UK we have offices in Birmingham Manchester Leeds and London.

The firm is committed to promoting a collaborative and supportive working environment. Embedded by local champions in each of our UK offices our wellregarded family and carer wellbeing and workplace culture and development programmes provide a variety of flexible working options to support individuals life journeys helping our people pursue their personal and professional goals.

Our Team

You will be supporting the ESH Financial Services Litigation and Tax Practice Groups providing secretarial and administration support. Youll 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 is ideal for someone who is an experienced Secretary with some exposure to supporting at Partner level in a national or global law firm and preferably has experience in one of the Practice Groups.

Youll 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.

MondayFriday 9.00am5.00pm Hybrid working available

You

As this is a varied role youll need to be an organised proactive individual who can easily prioritise and juggle workloads. Youll 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.

Youll also have experience of complex billing client inceptions and working in a law firm.

As you will be dealing with clients of the firm excellent communication skills are key for this role. Ideally youll 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 site at www.squirepattonboggs/en/careers. We are unable to process applications sent directly by email. Please complete an online application.

We are an inclusive employer and aim to ensure our workforce is representative of our society. We welcome applications regardless of age neurodiversity disability family or parental status race religion ethnicity sexual orientation or gender identity and expression or other legally protected characteristics. We will make reasonable adjustments and adaptions to our recruitment process to ensure it is inclusive for anyone who wishes to apply.

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