PA

This opportunity allows you to become one of the go-to people, playing a key role in helping the departments reach their goals. You will be tasked with streamlining processes and identifying efficiencies, enabling you to put your stamp on the role.

You’ll handle day-to-day support tasks such as diary management, meeting coordination, and travel arrangements. As the first point of contact, you’ll manage incoming client inquiries via phone and email. Additionally, you’ll maintain accurate client files and support with onboarding new clients to meet AML and KYC requirements. You’ll also draft client letters on behalf of the solicitors and play a significant role in the team’s billing process.

You’ll join a supportive and friendly team where you’ll receive the necessary support to advance your career at Walker Morris.

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As the PA you will:

• Diary Management – including the day-to-day organisation and management of fee earners’ diaries, coordinating schedules, meetings and appointments.
• Arrange meetings/ events – book meeting rooms and assist with Business Development or Client events.
• Travel Arrangements – plan and book travel arrangements, including applying for any international travel requirements such as visas, ensuring the traveller has the relevant information for their trip.
• File management – regular filing of hard and soft copy client-related correspondence in line with our company procedures. Helping conduct file reviews and other compliance-related tasks.
• On-board clients – prepare client letters and ensure the relevant documentation is completed to meet anti-money laundering and know your client requirements.
• Enquiry management – handle telephone and email enquiries, including responding on behalf of fee earners.
• Document management– occasional copy typing, drafting correspondence and documents (including via Docusign). Downloading documents from external links and creation and management of document rooms.
• Financial queries – producing invoices on a monthly basis, transferring time, processing write offs and various account reporting.

We are looking for:

• Experience of working within a similar secretarial or PA position.
• Legal secretarial experience is preferred but not essential.
• PC literate with good working knowledge of Microsoft Office, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Ability to prioritise your work and ensure deadlines are met.

Some of our benefits include:

• Salary reflective of your experience, up to £34,000.
• 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.
• Earn up to 10% of your salary with our annual bonus scheme.
• Hybrid and flexible working for most roles with 40-60% of your time spent in the office.

Further details of our benefits package can be found 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.