Legal Services Assistant - Wallsend, United Kingdom - Newcastle Building Society

Newcastle Building Society
Newcastle Building Society
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Wallsend, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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About the Role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Legal Services Assistant to join our in-house legal team.


You will join an established legal team, where as a Legal Services Assistant you will be responsible for a number of different administrative tasks supporting not only your legal colleagues, but also the Society and its subsidiaries on a variety of areasfrom data protection, member tasks and corporate governance issues.


You will be the first point of contact for any queries from the Group, monitoring a variety of departmental inboxes and compiling responses to queries under the supervision of our knowledgeable and experienced team.

You will also be responsible for keepingup-to-date with legal developments and changes, including regularly reviewing regulatory / legal publications as and when they are published and advising the legal team and/or wider Group (if appropriate) of any upcoming changes and measures to be taken bythe Group.


This is a busy role where no two days are the same, and you will be required to work with a degree of independence and using initiative, within a supportive environment.


Given the variety of work streams that the legal team is involved in, there is scope for you to shape the role.

About You


You will have good analytical and problem solving skills and the ability to grasp new concepts quickly and accurately, to enable you to acquire the necessary technical knowledge in a short space of time.

You will have the natural ability to build relationships and communicate at all levels.


A basic understanding of the Financial Services sector or experience working within a legal environment in a similar role would be desirable.

About Us

Newcastle Building Society is proud to be a mutual organisation. As a successful regional building society we have an ambitious strategy to continue to grow and develop the business. Our purpose; connecting our communities with a better financial future,is at the heart of all we do.


We operate on a hybrid model of working, this sees our colleagues work some days from home and some from our office in Cobalt Business Park, we'd love to talk through how this might work for you.

Your work life balance is important to us, if you'd ratherspend more time at home that's fine by us, likewise if you prefer to spend a little more time in the office that's fine too.

We welcome conversation around when, where and how you work.


This role can also be considered on flexible working arrangements and we actively encourage those who consider themselves suitable for the role yet would prefer part-time arrangement or compressed hours to get in touch to discuss any requirements/preferenceswith us.

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