
Personal Assistant - Legal London, England
Job description
Personal Assistant - Legal
Responsibilities
- Creates agendas, takes and transcribes minutes of meetings, files emails/documents etc. and performs all other related administrative and secretarial duties.
- Reviews incoming correspondence and meeting requests, takes initiative to determine appropriate action required. Leads and monitors issues for appropriate follow up.
- Proactive diary management of each of the Heads of Legal.
- Processing and preparing expenses for the Heads of Legal. Coordinating approval for direct reports expenses.
- Plans, coordinates and supports events, meetings and conferences for the Heads of Legal and team. Arranges domestic and international travel.
- Support the development of slide decks, presentations, and communications (including maintaining comms distribution lists).
- Ensures that department files are maintained in accordance with company policies and procedures.
- Monitoring, distributing and responding, where appropriate, to incoming post.
- Assists with the onboarding of new joiners (including requesting tech and IT access).
- Arranges and maintains Legal team’s licenses (Adobe, Power Bi, PLC, etc.).
- Helping team sort out IT and other administrative queries.
- On-boards suppliers and arranges for supplier invoices to be paid in a timely manner.
- Creates and maintains Legal team website and Teams site.
- Preparing and issuing predefined reports and presentations,
- Helping to make the team a fun place to work for, organising charity events, sweep stakes etc.
Person Specification
- Previous experience as a personal/team assistant
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft Word, Excel, Visio, Outlook and PowerPoint.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience of a similar role in a fast-paced, large corporate environment
- Excellent relationship building skills with the ability to work under pressure and to deadlines.
- Able to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, providing support to other areas of the business on occasions, as required.
Equal Opportunities
