Administrator/Secretary
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This is a great opportunity for an Administrator / Secretary to join our Development & House Building Team based in central Reading (5 minutes from Reading mainline station). Reporting into one of the partners in the Team, the successful candidate will be responsible for supporting the team with all day-to-day administration activities.
The ideal candidate for this role will be confident, organised, proactive and most importantly, a team player. Strong communication skills and attention to detail are essential.
The successful candidate will ideally be in the office 4 days a week although we may be able to offer some flexibility in this respect
Experience/ Attributes required
Essential Skills
- A minimum of 1 years commercial experience working as an Administrator/ Secretary within a legal environment
- Be able to work to a high standard and to be organised and efficient whilst working under pressure
- Comfortable liaising with clients via telephone/ email on behalf of fee earners
- Ability to work unsupervised (where necessary)
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with good attention to detail
Desirable Skills
- Previous experience of working with a property team
- Experience of HMLR and SDLT Processes
Work type:
- Preparation of correspondence, documents and completion statements
- Land Registry and SDLT applications
- Proof reading
- Handling basic finance tasks such as preparing invoices and reviewing client and office account entries.
- Diary and email management
- Dealing with telephone enquiries
- Any other departmental ad hoc duties
Contractual Benefits
- 25 days holiday (Pro rata)
- Pension scheme with a 4% employer contribution
- Life Assurance - 5 x final salary
Non contractual benefits include (Pro Rata)
- An additional days holiday for your birthday
- A weekly Wellbeing hour
- 8 hours per annum for charity work
- Season ticket loan
- Cycle scheme
- Cash back medical plan
- Discounted retail benefits
- Bring your dog to work
- Social committee events