Practice Support Executive
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Department: Banking
Location: Edinburgh
Duration: Permanent
Type of role: Hybrid
Reports to: Practice Support Workflow Co-ordinator
Reference Number: 9449
The Role
To deliver outstanding proactive executive support to partners and fee-earners, displaying a keen focus on high-quality client service. This is a great opportunity for someone who is motivated and passionate about delivering a professional service of the highest quality.
The role offers valuable experience, training, and genuine career development prospects.
Responsibilities
Organisation and Planning
- Complex diary and travel management with supervision when needed.
- Diarising and supporting the monitoring of deadlines.
- Arranging client entertainment and assisting with organisation of client seminars/conferences with supervision when needed.
- Preparation of agendas and meeting papers.
- Responsibility for organising internal events (e.g. training sessions, social events).
Business Development and Client Relationship Management
- Research into clients as instructed by fee-earners.
- Acting as key client contact for non-legal queries (e.g. dealing with telephone queries, liaising with client secretarial team to discuss billing processes).
- Building and maintaining effective relationships with both internal and external clients.
- Supporting client reporting requirements.
- Supporting partners on bids, tenders.
- Supporting partners with creation of client presentation materials.
- Supporting events in collaboration with Business Development.
Financial Management and Matter Opening
- Handling any complex billing arrangements with supervision when needed.
- Supervising Administration Assistants with routine billing and expenses processing.
Document Management
- Preparing pitch documents.
- Transcribing BigHand dictations of less than 5 minutes.
- Archiving and storing of original documents.
- Creating and amending data sets in Excel.
- Creating and amending PowerPoint presentations.
- Creating, formatting and amending Word documents.
- Carrying out document comparisons and document conversions (e.g. PDF to Word, house-style).
- Proof reading.
- Creating Tikit links.
Required experience, skills, and attributes
- 18 months experience in a secretarial/admin role.
- Demonstrable level of experience providing support to a Practice Group and experience in a wide range of secretarial/administrative tasks.
- Proficient use of MOS including Excel and PowerPoint.