Personal Assistant
Salary: £38,000 - £40,000 per annum (dependent on experience), plus company benefits
Job Title: Personal Assistant (Real Estate)
Location: London, EC2V 7AW
Contract: Full Time, Permanent
Shifts: 37.5 hours per week, working Monday to Friday, 9:00am to 5:30pm with 1 hour lunch unpaid
Work model: Hybrid (2 to 3 days onsite)
Williams Lea seeks a Personal Assistant to join our team!
Williams Lea is the leading global provider of skilled, technology-enabled, business-critical support services, with long-term trusted relationships with blue-chip 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.
Do you have two or more years’ experience in Enfranchisement Law/Real Estate? Do you pride yourself on providing superb customer service? Are you professional and a great communicator? Can you work office hours Monday to Friday? If so, we would love to hear from you.
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 self-management 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
- 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
- E-Filing 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
- Real Estate PA experience essential
- Any experience in Enfranchisement Law would be an advantage
- Exceptional standard of written and verbal communication
- Proficient multi-tasker
- 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 well-being, we offer a comprehensive benefits package, including but not limited to:
- 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays (pro-rata for part time roles)
- Salary sacrifice schemes, retail vouchers – including our TechScheme which can be used on a range of gadgets such as Smart TV’s, laptops and computers or household appliances.
- Life Assurance
- Private Medical Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Health Assessments
- Cycle-to-work 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.
If you have a disability and would prefer to apply in a different format or would like to make a reasonable adjustment to enable you to make an interview, please contact us at [email protected] (we do not accept applications to this email address).
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What We Do
Williams Lea is the global provider of tech-enabled skilled business-critical support services to financial, legal and professional services firms, connecting people, processes and technology to streamline key business and administrative functions and helping companies adapt to a more virtual and digital workplace.
Built on a strong heritage, great client relationships and a talented team, Williams Lea is the trusted global outsourcing provider to clients in highly regulated environments.
Williams Lea serves clients in 20 countries across four continents and has 7,000 employees worldwide. Williams Lea is backed by Advent International, one of the largest and most experienced global private equity investors.
