About this role
Role Overview
- Provide effective and professional team support and coordination across a wide range of needs from managing partners’ diaries to typing legal documents and assisting with compliance matters
- Liaising directly with clients to organise meetings and events and communicate with them on administrative and certain file matters
- Taking charge of the team’s monthly billing process and managing certain client engagement requirements such as file status reports
- Assisting team authors with settlements and property transactions
- Understanding of AML/CFT obligations in New Zealand
Requirements
- Diploma in legal secretary studies or other tertiary degree
- At least three years’ experience in a similar secretary or assistant role
- At least twelve months’ experience as legal secretary in a property/real estate team
- Experience completing monthly billing
- Previous experience and proficiency using Landonline, PPSR, iManage, GRIP and 3E
- A confident user of the Microsoft Office suite
Benefits
- $500 wellness payment annually to spend how you please
- Additional leave over the Christmas and New Year period
- Learning and development opportunities
- Lifestyle leave – ability to purchase additional leave each year
- Paid parental leave of 26 weeks/5 weeks for non-primary caregiver
- Paid parental leave top up to full salary payment for 26 weeks for the primary caregiver
- We dress for our day and our role
- Regular social events, including Morning Teas, Friday Fives, sporting and charity events, annual balls, family Christmas parties, and an end of year function
- Dedicated wellness programme
- Pro bono opportunities