Personal Assistant - Cardiff, United Kingdom - Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Description

Legal PA - REPG - Cardiff - 12 month Fixed Term Contract
Region 1 EMEA
Practice group 1 Real Estate
Office 1 Cardiff
Position type 1 Fixed Term
Summary 1 We are Eversheds Sutherland, a global law firm, with 5,000+ colleagues in more than 30 countries. We're full‐service with deep niche and sector experience. We're ambitious for our clients, our communities – and for you. For business professionals, our environment is highly collaborative with value being placed on diversity of ideas, skills and mindsets.

We believe people develop through learning and are transforming our approach to learning and performance through our feedback and development culture and an innovative approach to professional development for all of our people.

This underpins our high performance culture so that our people feel managed, supported and developed continuously and as part of their everyday work.

Client focussed with regular meetings with stakeholders to discuss actions, priorities, expectations and future planning
Comprehensive and proactive diary and travel management, anticipating future demands and actions required, using knowledge and initiative to resolve conflicts
Organising and planning meetings, to include coordinating agendas and papers for internal and external meetings, booking travel and arranging for necessary equipment and refreshments using technology and resources available for both physical and virtual meetings
Utilise CRM as a key business tool, including managing, updating, reporting and research
Flexible approach, adopting a blended work pattern approach in hours and location, to accommodate stakeholder and client needs
Providing comprehensive financial administrative support to stakeholders; ensuring compliance with legal, firm wide and practice group specific policies and procedures

The role of Legal PA is to work as part of our Practice Group Support team to provide professional and proactive support to an allocated group of stakeholders, operating with a high level of confidence.

Our Legal PAs are responsible for a wide and varied range of tasks to support our business.

We empower our people to stretch their skills and encourage ongoing personal and professional development, leading by example to junior team members.

To increase motivation and help you succeed, we offer a variety of technical training and soft skills courses and are committed to a culture of continuous feedback.

Experience of working within a similar environment providing PA support to senior stakeholders
Excellent communication, organisation and interpersonal skills, with the confidence to liaise with senior stakeholders and demonstrate flexibility and resilience
Strong relationship building skills, both internal and external
Intermediate to advanced skills in Microsoft applications including Outlook and Teams
Flexible and easily able to adapt to change
Build and maintain collaborative working relationships with all clients and colleagues, building trust and strong networks

At Eversheds Sutherland, we provide benefits focused on looking after you: your development, your performance, your financial future and your health, as well as providing the opportunity to make a contribution to the world.

We share in the success of the firm, reward alignment to our values, going above and beyond and your individual performance
We support flexible ways of working through our remote working policy and commitment to flexible, agile and hybrid ways of working
We support your health and performance through our dental, healthcare and wellness support
We support everything you are and all you bring through our powerful commitment to diversity and inclusion
We provide a platform for your career, whatever your ambitions through our structured professional and personal training, mentoring and development programs
We provide an opportunity to give back through our pro bono work and community engagement
We help you plan ahead through retirement planning, insurance and assurance
Diversity and inclusion
We foster diversity of thought and the freedom to put ideas into action. This is reflected in our policies, systems and processes, and in our work with diversity membership organisations.

Many of our people work flexibly in some way and we are open to considering how we can accommodate flexible working arrangements alongside role requirements.

Eversheds Sutherland is the name and brand under which the members ofEversheds Sutherland Limited (Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLPand Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP) and their respective controlled,managed and affiliated firms and the members of Eversheds Sutherland(Europe) Limited (each an "Eversheds Sutherland Entity" and together the"Eversheds Sutherland Entities") provide legal or other services toclients around the world.

Eversheds Sutherland Entities are constitutedand regulated in accordance with relevant local regulatory and legalrequirements and operate in accordance with their locally registerednames.