Corporate Team Administrator

Birketts LLP; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Corporate Team Administrator to join their dynamic team in Cambridge. This role offers a fantastic opportunity to provide essential administrative support within a busy corporate environment. You will be responsible for managing communications, maintaining organized file systems, and ensuring that all documentation meets the firm’s high standards. With a commitment to professional development and a flexible working model, this position is perfect for someone looking to grow in a supportive and ambitious workplace. Join a firm that values diversity and is dedicated to making a positive impact in the community.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays

Private Healthcare with BUPA

Long Service holiday award

Scottish Widows Pension Scheme

Staff Profit Share

Life Assurance - 4 x salary

Paid CSR Day

Enhanced Maternity/Paternity Leave

Subsidised gym membership

Electric car scheme

Qualifications

• Strong communication and organisational skills are essential.
• Ability to work independently and take initiative.
• Experience with Microsoft Office applications is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide administrative support to the Corporate team.
• Manage billing and debt collection processes.
• Maintain compliant and accurate file management systems.

Skills

Effective communication skills

Attention to detail

Organisational skills

Self-motivated

Typing Speed - 50+ wpm

Solid understanding of IT packages

Good spelling and punctuation

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Job description

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Birketts is a full service, UK Top 50 law firm. With a heritage spanning 160 years, we have more than 700 lawyers and legal professionals based in Bristol, Cambridge, Chelmsford, Ipswich, London, Norwich and Sevenoaks. We advise businesses, government and public sector organisations and individuals in the UK and internationally across four principal practice groups: property, corporate services, litigation and private client advisory.

We are defined by our Next Level Law proposition. We work with our clients as a proactive partner, horizon scanning and thinking ahead to the changes, challenges or opportunities that they may face.

Next Level Law is also applied to our people. Our collegiate culture means everyone is encouraged to achieve their next level in everything they do. RollOnFriday recently ranked us as the 5th best law firm to work at in 2024.

With our ambition to succeed, comes a strong desire to make a positive contribution to the communities we serve, and we are committed to delivering the objectives set out in our ESG strategy. Diversity plays an integral part in all that we do, with female partners comprising 40% of our partnership.

Purpose of job

To work as part of a very busy and rapidly growing Corporate team to provide professional and dedicated administration support to fee earners and wider team.

Accountabilities

• To carry out administrative support (including billing and debt collection) for the Corporate team;
• Work closely with the team secretaries to provide support and back-up;
• Ability to communicate with a wide variety of different people from privately owned businesses to private equity and venture capital organisations;
• Ability to respond and update clients regularly, taking internal and external telephone enquiries politely and professionally;
• Show initiative when responding to queries and actively try to seek solutions to problems;
• Assist in maintaining compliant and accurate file management and office systems;
• Carry out photocopying and scanning in accordance with the firm’s paper-lite and clear desk policies;
• Ensure that all electronic filing is up to date and maintained at regular intervals;
• Proof read all work, checking for spelling and grammar;
• Provide support to other secretaries within the team and provide cover as and when necessary;
• Understands a variety of software packages such as Microsoft Word, Outlook and Excel, to produce correspondence, documents and ensure relevant documentation is produced to a high standard to meet clients’ and fee earners’ expectations and deadlines;
• To format and present documents in Birketts LLP house style;
• Clarify instructions from fee earners should they be unclear or if deadlines are not made explicit.
  
  
  

Skills

• Effective communication skills, clear and organised
• Strong attention to detail, high level organisational skills and reliable;
• Self-motivated with an ability to use own initiative with a desire to learn;
• Typing Speed - 50+ wpm
• Solid understanding of key IT packages to include Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel
• Good spelling and punctuation
• Typing dictation (Preferred but not essential).
  
  
  

Equal opportunities

At Birketts, our culture is driven by ambition and a commitment to positively impact all the communities we serve. We are dedicated to the success, development, and wellbeing of our colleagues, helping them achieve their goals and seize the opportunities that come with our growth. Alongside a flexible and inclusive work environment, we offer the following core benefits:

• 25 days holiday (FTE) plus Bank Holidays
• Long Service holiday award – 1 extra week every 10 years continuous service
• Private Healthcare with BUPA (offered after probation is passed)
• Scottish Widows Pension Scheme (5% employer / 5% Employee)
• Staff Profit Share and Individual Performance Bonus Scheme
• Salary sacrifice (Pensions, Staff Profit Share)
• Life Assurance - 4 x salary / Permanent Health Insurance
• Paid CSR Day
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity Leave
• Subsidised gym membership
• Electric car scheme
• Agile/Hybrid Working Policy
• Dress for your Day Policy
  
  
  

https://www.birketts.co.uk/recognition-reward-benefits/

Birketts is a flexible business which has embraced a hybrid working model where our colleagues enjoy a mix of home and office working. We welcome applications from people looking for flexible, agile, and part-time roles and we are happy to explore your preferred working patterns as part of your application.

Please note that this job profile is not an exhaustive list of duties but merely an outline of the key components of the role. You may be required by your line manager to take on additional responsibilities when requested.

Birketts is committed to being an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our policy is unequivocal: we do not tolerate discrimination based on age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, or sexual orientation.

We pride ourselves on being an inclusive organisation that actively promotes equality of opportunity for all, valuing the right mix of talent, skills, and potential. We welcome applications from a diverse range of candidates, and selection for roles is based solely on individual merit.

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