Administrative Assistant (Employment, Pensions & Immigration) - London

Job Introduction

DACBeachcroft is seeking to appoint an experienced Administrative Assistant into our Employment, Pensions and Immigration team in London. This is a full-time, permanent, office based role which will require the successful applicant to attend our centrally located London office 5 days a week. 

This role would suit someone who has experience as an administrator who has worked in an office-environment, ideally within a law firm. Although experience in a legal environment is not essential, it is highly advantageous. 

Reporting into the Secretarial Team Leader, the role provides administrative and file management support across the team. Work will come either directly from the lawyer or through the work allocated by the Secretary Team Leader or Secretaries. The role is accountable for establishing and maintaining an ongoing service-based relationship with the team they support recognising and translating the needs and expectations into a responsive service.

We are a Disability Confident employer and guarantee to interview anyone with a disability, long term health condition or neurodiversity whose application meets the essential criteria for the role as set out in this advert.  If this applies to you contact disabilityconfident@dacbeachcroft.com in confidence, quoting the reference number for this vacancy in the subject box of your email, and a member of the team will be in touch. 

We are happy to talk flexible working and have in place a Flex-forward working scheme. We would encourage you to talk to us about our approach to flexible working during the hiring process if you would like to explore this further.

Role Responsibility

Client Relationship Management

• Taking instruction to undertake admin tasks relating to client relationship management 
• Responsible for ensuring current knowledge of client specific protocols and processes, and building these into current practices

Administrative

• File opening and closing –  matters are set up on the relevant document/case management system. Undertake file closing/archiving procedures ensuring compliant at all times
• Make room, hotel and travel bookings as requested, organising hand deliveries and courier requests, and other adhoc requests
• Printing/copying/scanning of documents flowing to Office Services for support with high volume jobs, as appropriate
• Sending large electronic documents via OneDrive
• Submitting documents for signature by clients via DocuSign
• Collating disclosure documents
• Assisting with new client set up and ensuring all relevant documents have been obtained
• Produce and circulate MI reports
• Liaise with Counsel's chambers re Counsel availability and enter dates in calendar
• Create bundles using PDF Docs/Bundle Docs

Communication

• Liaising with fellow team members on workloads and ensure deadlines are consistently met
• Liaising with and taking direction from your Secretary Team Leader, secretaries and lawyers

Financial

• Assisting with billing as required
• Assisting with expenses as required

Processing

• Responsible for managing priorities and workloads to ensure deadlines are met.  Liaising with STL where challenges arise
• Ensuring compliance with firm wide/department policies and procedures
• Responsible for checking post and/or emails and dealing with as appropriate ensuring all client related correspondence is appropriately filed in firm’s document management systems

Customer Service

• Attending team meetings and taking minutes
• Liaising with lawyers and Secretary Team Leader to take instruction and liaise on work requirements
• Consistently and appropriately update service users on progress where appropriate

The Ideal Candidate

• Relevant office-based administration experience essential (legal background preferred)
• An aptitude for administration management and processes, with experience of working with document management/case management systems
• Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Office
• An effective communicator with the ability to liaise with internal and external clients in a professional manner; striving to provide exceptional service at all times
• Good organisational skills and ability to manage own time effectively within a fast-paced environment
• Conscientious, taking personal responsibility for own work and accountability for its delivery and quality
• Positive can-do attitude with the ability to adapt to change
• Excellent attention to detail
• Customer/client service focused
• Proactive, professional and flexible approach to work
• Keen to develop over a period of time with a willingness and ability to learn
• Excellent team player, sharing in team goals to provide excellent quality and efficiency of service, with a willingness to take on new responsibilities and challenges

About the Company

We're a leading international legal business with over 3,000 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We're market leaders in insurance, health and real estate but with a full-service offering, including growing Financial Services and Tech capabilities. We represent a wide range of clients – from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for nearly all of the top-20 UK and global insurers, we're market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK’s top-five housebuilders.

We are a fast-growing international business with offices around the globe.  In addition to our 11 UK offices, we also have offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Milan, Rome, Singapore, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Miami, plus a broad network of affiliations across the globe. 

Working with us

Our vision is to be leading business advisers, recognised for our insight and our outstanding commitment to clients, and for being the place where talented people want to work. Combine this with our supportive culture and hybrid working model, and you have: a Life that Works.

Our flexible approach means that we help our colleagues to be their best at work, while recognising that they have all sorts of different interests and commitments outside work.

We pride ourselves on our supportive, approachable culture. We are trusted, appreciated as individuals and embraced as part of a team. At DACB, we don’t just accept your differences, we celebrate and advocate for them. From bespoke solutions for our clients, to treating you as an individual. Our strength comes from your diverse ideas and bringing the ‘whole you’ to work. So if you’re good at what you do, come as you are!

Note for Recruitment Agencies – the DAC Beachcroft LLP resourcing team is responsible for managing all current vacancies through direct hiring and referrals.  Whilst we do work with recruitment agencies, we will formally release those vacancies to instructed agencies deemed best placed to assist us.  Speculative CVs sent by any agency to any DAC Beachcroft employee without a specific request by the resourcing team will not be accepted and no introduction fee will be applicable.  Our resourcing team can be contacted at recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com.

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