Legal PA – Real Estate (Hybrid Working)

Job Title –  Legal PA, Real Estate (hybrid working)
Salary – £25,500 – £30,500
Location – Sheffield

A superb new opportunity has arisen as a Legal PA at a highly successful full-service, global law firm. This firm works with a variety of clients across the world. The full time, permanent position lends a chance to join a firm with a fantastic reputation, which is increasingly growing due to its success. The right candidate will be an ambitious individual, keen to become established within a superb administration ability.

Benefits:

• Company wide bonus scheme of 5% salary (discretionary)
• 25 days holiday + statutory bank holidays
• 50% off your current gym membership & corporate membership with Virgin Active and Nuffield gyms
• Critical illness insurance
• Private medical insurance
• Income protection
• Dental insurance
• Life assurance, 5x your salary
• Extended Maternity/Adoption & Shared Parental leave
• Study assistance
• Interest free loans

About the Role

We are looking for a Legal PA to join our Sheffield office to provide a high-quality and efficient service to partners and fee-earners in a busy real estate transactions team. Reporting directly to the Secretarial Services Manager, your focus will be on efficiently managing your workload and being proactive with the ability to work on your own initiative. 
 
Tasks include, but are not limited to:
•    Managing and supporting Partners in all tasks
•    Comprehensive email and diary management
•    Arranging national and international travel
•    Responding to email and telephone calls and queries
•    Amending data in Excel
•    Amending and formatting documents 
•    Working with data rooms
•    Copy-typing and digital dictation as required
•    Powerpoint presentations
•    Production of engrossed documents
•    Deeds management
•    Proof reading and quality checking of work
•    General correspondence
•    Production of weekly/monthly/quarterly client reports
•    Dealing with finance queries
•    Processing expenses in a timely manner
•    Managing workflow to the Document & Design Centre, Print Room etc as required; proactively taking steps to ensure work is returned within required timescales 
•    Delegation of work to Junior Secretaries
•    Daily mentoring of junior members of the team
•    Daily management of the team workflow
•    Establishing positive and effective working relationships with colleagues at all levels
•    Provide cross Practice-Group support where necessary

About You
You will need to be adaptable to change whilst maintaining a professional approach, demonstrating high levels of client care, organisational and time management skills.  
You will have gained experience at a senior secretarial or PA level within a law firm. You will have excellent communication skills, a high level of IT literacy, superb attention to detail, well-developed administrative skills and the ability to multi-task under pressure. 

For further information in relation to this vacancy please contact Adam Perry  on 01142418030 or at [email protected] 

CRA Legal follow strict best practice recruitment guidelines monitored by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC). Please note our advertisements use PQE/salary levels purely as a guide. However, we are happy to consider applications from all candidates who are able to demonstrate the skills necessary to fulfil the role. As part of our candidate registration and care process we at CRA Legal aim to respond to all successful applications within 7 working days. If you have not been contacted within this timescale your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion and we thank you for your interest.

This Legal PA vacancy is very popular with the local legal community, so please apply quickly to ensure your application is considered. As part of our candidate registration and care process we at CRA Legal aim to respond to all successful applications within 2 working days.

We look forward to hearing from you!