Conveyancing Assistant 9 month fixed term contract
Birmingham - UK
Job Summary
About the role:
We have a great opportunity for an individual to join our Real Estate Group in the Affordable Housing team as a Conveyancing Assistant at our Birmingham office on a 9-month fixed term contract.
Our conveyancing specialists handle a high volume of transactions including shared ownership sales and resales extra care and retirement schemes staircasing lease extensions enfranchisement right to buy/right to acquire disposals land disposals buybacks and auction sales ensuring smooth efficient and wellmanaged outcomes for our clients.
As a Conveyancing Assistant youll be supporting our Conveyancers in managing volume plot sales and residential property transactions for registered providers. Your responsibilities will include assisting with transactions maintaining accurate records and helping ensure a smooth and efficient process for our clients.
About you:
We are looking for someone who enjoys working as part of an inclusive collaborative and supportive team where everyone contributes to shared success and growth. Previous experience within a legal environment would be beneficial but is not essential.
In this role you will need to remain calm under pressure and manage a busy workload effectively by prioritising tasks and responding to competing demands. You will work closely with colleagues including as part of wider project teams supporting Transaction Processing Services team members in managing highvolume work.
The role will involve carrying out searches research and analysis responding to a wide range of enquiries and communicating confidently with colleagues clients agents and other contacts both verbally and in writing. You will be expected to use initiative to solve problems and resolve queries while maintaining strong financial hygiene and using finance reporting and billing systems with confidence.
What We Can Offer You:
The opportunity to work for a firm which has been recognised as one of the best places to work in the UK and has been ranked by Great Place to Work for 26 consecutive years.
Excellent benefits including:
- 25 days annual leave with the option to buy up to a weeks extra annual leave
- Free private medical insurance and the option to add family members
- A generous pension allowance
- Life assurance covering four times your annual salary
- The chance of a three-month sabbatical every five years
- Maternity paternity and adoption leave schemes
- A range of health and wellbeing programmes
- State of the art offices in the heart of Birmingham City Centre with an onsite restaurant
- Opportunities to flourish in your role through training and personal development
- A hybrid approach with office and remote working
Equal Opportunities:
Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firmand to Equal Opportunities in employment. The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour nationality ethnicity national origins) religion or belief age disability sexual orientation sex gender re-assignment and gender identity marriage and civil partnership and pregnancy maternity and paternity. This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment.
At Gowling WLGwe seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures to create an exciting and rewarding place to work. Our aim is to fulfil everyones potential and together to achieve personal and business goals.
If you have any queries in relation to this position or would like to see a full job description please contact Meg Astley at
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Required Experience:
Junior IC
Key Skills
About Company
Gowling WLG clients have access to in-depth expertise in key global sectors along with a top-tier suite of legal services.