Our client, a medium sized law firm based in the West End have a lovely role working as a Commercial Real Estate EA on 6 month FTC basis.
The role is starting asap and they need a candidate who has extensive experience in property and transactional experience.
Duties are as follows:
Act as a professional and client service focussed ambassador for partners internally and externally.
Take full ownership of diaries, proactively managing all appointments, meetings and related logistics, working with partners to ensure that their schedules run smoothly and that they are where they need to be, at the scheduled meeting time, and that they are prepared for each meeting.
Proactively manage diary conflicts and take appropriate action on queries or clashes.
As agreed with each individual partner, manage inboxes responding to emails on their behalf, drafting emails appropriately, forwarding any client critical emails to other fee earners and secretaries in the team to action and respond and highlight any urgent/important emails that partner needs to respond to
Demonstrate commercial and financial management understanding, by handling complex compliance and billing matters.
Take full ownership of tasks and manage workload against deadlines and business needs, working effectively and collaboratively with central support departments to efficiently deliver to deadlines.
Coordinate the billing process on behalf of the partners, proactively organising WIP and other financial management meetings, working with the wider department and Client Administrators to ensure billing processes meet deadlines.
Take ownership of financial and matter management processes for the team, for example coordinating chasing up unpaid bills
To secure this role you will have a strong eye for detail and be a very good communicator. You will also need to be professional and able to think on your feet and pre-empt the Partners diary and workload.
Previous property and transactional experience is essential. Knowledge of Land Registry, Searchflow and SharePoint advantageous.
The role is paying mid to late 40's and you will be assisting in a really lovely friendly team. The Partners are all approachable and want to work with the PA/EA in a collaborative manner.