Legal Secretary Financial Services - London

Our thriving London office is looking for a proactive experienced Legal Secretary who is ready to develop and grow with the newest team to our Financial Services group in our London office. You must be a proven organised professional individual who has a can do attitude and who is willing to go the extra mile to help colleagues at all times. You must be able to demonstrate experience with heavy and complex travel diary management and working for a very fast paced team.

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 a group of Partners who have a heavy and complex workload. You will be reporting into the London office Secretarial Services Manager and will be working alongside the wider London secretarial team.

Our Opportunity

In this dynamic and busy role no two days will be the same. This role would be ideal for an experienced Legal Secretary who is able to navigate heavy and complex travel manage busy diaries deal with active email inboxes and action emails without prompting where necessary.

Youll be responsible for the billing and financial support required for the team proactively managing it with limited involvement from the Partners. This will include managing monthly financial reports for clients. You will also lead on ensuring all new clients are promptly incepted dealing with all KYC requirements.

You must always have a positive and professional approach and work efficiently in a busy environment.

MondayFriday 9.30am5.30pm

You

You will need proven experience of working at a senior level as you will be working with limited supervision. You need to be very organised proactive enthusiastic a go getter and able to solve problems or have the initiative to find creative solutions to varying situations.

You will have worked in a legal environment supporting Partners for at least 5 years with proven experience of working at a senior level and understand the fundamental workings of a busy law firm.

You will have a strong knowledge of the systems and packages used within law firms to include all Microsoft packages and Aderant.

What you need to know

If you are interested in finding out more about this role please visit our website at the first instance. We are unable to process applications sent directly by email. Please complete an online application. No agency CVs accepted at this time.

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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