Overview

Are you an experienced secretary ready to take the next step in your career, or a seasoned PA looking for a new challenge? We are recruiting for a PA to join one of our fast-paced legal teams.

You will be tasked with streamlining processes and identifying efficiencies, enabling you to positively impact the team's performance.

As the PA, you will:

• Financial hygiene management – management of outstanding and complex WIP (work in progress), including closing files in line with Walker Morris' processes and procedures, and ensuring processes for applying rates are followed.
• Billing processes – oversee department's billing and WIP (work in progress) procedures to ensure financial accuracy and compliant. Keep updated with individual client's billing processes.
• Compliance and AML (anti-money laundering) administration – work closely with the Risk and Compliance team to understand and take a proactive role in client onboarding. Audit client matters to ensure file closure procedures are and efficient billing processes are implemented.
• Complex travel arrangements - planning and booking domestic and international travel arrangements.
• Advanced diary management – provide efficient and proactive coordination of schedules, meetings and appointments.
• Business development and event coordination – highlight opportunities for business development and cross selling, ensuring accurate recording of events and attendees.
• Stakeholder management – attend stakeholder meetings to collate information and offer proactive coordination of WIP (work in progress) actions, and update the department on any firm-wide compliance changes.
• Workload management - Delegation of tasks to the wider support team, and upskilling team members.

We are looking for:

• Experience in a similar position is preferred, ideally within a legal or professional services environment.
• Experience of carrying out client due diligence, financial hygiene and matter management is essential.
• Strong stakeholder management, with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience of prioritising workload and delegating tasks as required.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Ability to work confidentially and on highly confidential matters; respecting and maintaining the confidentiality of all information relating to Walker Morris and clients' matters.

Some of our benefits include:

• Salary reflective of your experience, circa. £28,000 to £35,000
• Earn up to 10% of your salary with our annual bonus scheme.
• Minimum of 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays per year increasing to 31 days with length of service, with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days holiday per year.
• Auto enrolled into the workplace pension scheme, and we'll contribute a minimum of 6% of your salary.
• 4x your annual salary in the event of a death in service.
• This role is initially a work from office position during your probation period. Once complete we offer hybrid working Monday to Friday, our office is based in Leeds City Centre.

Find out more about working at Walker Morris here.

Company Values

Our shared values represent our culture and the things that are important to us. They define who we are as a Firm, as an employer and what we expect of our people. They provide direction and purpose by influencing the decisions that we make and the actions that we take. It’s really important that all candidates and employees demonstrate these values in their day-to-day activities:

• Embrace the fact everyone is different and unique.
• You can be serious without wearing a suit.
• Never lose sight of the bigger picture.
• Two heads are better than one.
• Take the bull by the horns.
• We win & lose together.

Walker Morris is committed to being an inclusive employer. Our aim is to ensure our workforce represents our diverse society. We recognise that everyone brings their own unique capabilities and experiences to their work. We welcome applications regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, neuro diversity or disability status, family or parental status, race, religion or ethnicity.

We take great pride in being a Disability Confident Employer. If you need any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please don't hesitate to ask.

Click here to find out more about our diversity and inclusion work.

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