- A culture of trust and empowerment with responsibility and autonomy over your work and the freedom to manage when and how you do it
- The support and encouragement of a great team behind you and friendly partners who all want to help you thrive
- Exposure to excellent development and collaboration within your team
- A competitive package with amazing benefits
- Inputting and updating key information within the firms systems
- Assisting with file opening and client onboarding tasks
- Assisting with client billing and related admin tasks
- Assisting with matter closures and archiving of electronic records
- Raising and tracking purchase orders in line with set processes
- Tracking supplier invoices for approval and checking these against purchase orders
- Disbursement and invoice processing
- Liaising with internal clients to manage deadlines and any subsequent queries related to tasks the team carry out
- Coordination of appointment bookings with both internal and external parties
- Any other duties commensurate with the post
Central Services Assistant - West Midlands, United Kingdom - Shakespeare Martineau
Description
Job Description
Central Services Assistant
Are you experienced Central Services Assistant and interested in developing a great career and looking for a new challenge?
If so we'd love to hear from you
What we can offer you....
The Opportunity:
To work as part of the Business Support team, to provide a high quality and efficient full range of administration services to the firm.
Key Responsibilities :
Meet the team...
To provide truly outstanding client service we work as one team. Our Business Operations Group is made up of business professionals who work with our legal professionals to provide market leading expertise to our clients. The Groups include; Finance, Operations, HR, Marketing, IT, Risk and Executive Leadership team.
Want to know more about us?
It's the people at Shakespeare Martineau that make us so special. By understanding what our people want, giving them the support they need, recognising everyone's contribution and realising the unique power of teams, together we win. As a firm we are focused on proactively building and developing diverse teams, bringing different backgrounds, personalities and perspectives together. We play to our strengths, pushing ourselves to be consistently better than yesterday and deliver amazing solutions for our clients. We empower our teams with a high degree of individual responsibility; we self-manage and encourage everyone to be responsible for their own learning, knowing it makes us even better at what we do
We believe in trusting our people to make the right decisions for themselves, from when and where you work, to how you dress; we focus on outputs.
How we work
We embrace agile working and offer a blended approach to where and how we work. We appreciate that people have different needs and preferences and we're keen to be flexible, after all, we value what you do, not where you do it.
We have hubs in Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Leicester, London, Lincoln, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Solihull, Stratford-upon-Avon and Sheffield. This role will be predominantly home based with travel as required into Birmingham or one of our other West Midlands hubs
Our standard office hours are Monday – Thursday 9.00am to 5.30pm and Friday 9.00am – 5.00pm. Due to the nature of this role candidates will need to be flexible in terms of working hours; in addition to our standard hours cover will be required during evenings and weekends.
Additional information
Please be aware, for some vacancies, where we receive high numbers of applications we may need to bring the close date forward.
Due to the nature of the work undertaken, confirmation of employment will be subject to a variety of checks which will be carried out once an offer of employment is accepted. Details of the checks can be found here.
Equal opportunities
Shakespeare Martineau is a committed equal opportunities employer. We seek to attract, develop and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures. We value and respect individuality and encourage a culture within our business where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths and experiences. Everyone who either applies to or works for the firm is treated equally, regardless of their gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, marital status, sexual orientation or religious beliefs.