Personal Assistant Real Estate

Personal Assistant

Salary: Up to 38000 per annum DOE plus company benefits

Location: London EC2V 7AW

Contract: Full Time Permanent

Shifts: 37.5 hours per week Monday Friday 9am until 5:30pm with 1 hour unpaid break

Work model: Hybrid 23 days onsite)

Williams Lea seeks a Personal Assistant to join our team!

Williams Lea is the leading global provider of skilled technologyenabled businesscritical support services with longterm trusted relationships with bluechip clients across investment banks law firms and professional services firms. Williams Lea employees nearly 7000 people worldwide who provide efficient business services at client sites in often complex and highly regulated environments from centralised Williams Lea onshore facilities and through best cost company offshore locations.

Purpose of role

The role of the Personal Assistant is to provide enhanced proactive support to fee earners to enable them to operate efficiently. The support provided needs to be a seamless legal service to clients. The Personal Assistant role is expected to use a high degree of selfmanagement and initiative and to maintain a high level of confidentiality.

The Personal Assistant will act as workflow manager for other support services. This includes delegating and supervising the completion of document production file management and copying/scanning work which are primarily undertaken by other relevant business support services.

Key responsibilities

• Diary management / FE organisation including booking meeting rooms arranging travel itineraries expenses
• Client care liaison
• Typing documents letters emails and attendance notes as required by Fee Earners
• Supporting with client file opening and closing conflict checking and AML
• Preparing / typing attendance notes documents and amends letters and emails in draft
• Online form completion Laserforms/Cloud Forms
• Delivering an exceptional electronic and hard copy file management service
• Return or add documents to existing client files
• Work with the practice management system to log and record documents
• Handle and administer closed files as requested
• EFiling and file housekeeping
• Uploading and Downloading documents from client management system
• Uploading and Downloading documents from portals Land Registry and Searchflow
• Assisting fee earners with finance tasks namely requesting CHAPS/BACS payments
• Provide photocopying scanning and printing as per Fee Earner / customer instructions
• Understand and comply with corporate standards. Constantly seek ways to improve operations and suggest and implement approved ideas
• Usage of internal and external portals/systems
• Communicate with customers on job or deadlines

Personal attributes

• PA experience within Real Estate is essential
• Exceptional standard of written and verbal communication
• Proficient multitasker
• Competent with the Microsoft Office suite
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Solutions focused
• Have a high level of confidentiality and integrity
• Exceptional attention to detail

Rewards and Benefits

We believe in supporting our employees in both their professional and personal lives. As part of our commitment to your wellbeing we offer a comprehensive benefits package including but not limited to:

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays(prorata for part time roles)
• Salary sacrifice schemes retail vouchers including our TechScheme which can be used on a range of gadgets such as Smart TVs laptops and computers or household appliances.
• Life Assurance
• Private Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Health Assessments
• Cycletowork scheme
• Discounted gym memberships
• Referral Scheme

You will also have the opportunity to work for a global employer who is dedicated to offering each and every employee an enjoyable challenging and rewarding career with future career development prospects!

Equality and Diversity

The Company values the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the organisation and will not discriminate because of age disability gender reassignment marriage and civil partnership pregnancy and maternity race (which includes colour nationality and ethnic or national origins) religion or belief sex or sexual orientation (each of these being a protected characteristic in discrimination law). It will not discriminate because of any other irrelevant factor and will build a culture that values openness fairness and transparency.

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