Legal Administrator

Sewell Wallis Ltd; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A professional services company in Leeds is seeking an experienced Legal Administrator to support the International Client Team Manager. This role involves managing legal matters, providing excellent client service, and helping to drive process improvements. The ideal candidate has strong communication skills and is able to thrive in a fast-paced environment. The position offers hybrid working opportunities and potential for career development.

Benefits

Hybrid working

Modern office

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Experience in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to meet daily/weekly SLAs.
• Strong finance background preferred but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Support the team objectives and manage your workload.
• Coordinate legal matters from initiation to closure.
• Provide first-class client service to stakeholders.

Skills

Strong communication skills

Stakeholder management skills

Strong IT skills

Ability to prioritize workload

Job description

Overview

Sewell Wallis are currently recruiting for an experienced Legal Administrator to join a well-known, established, professional services company based in Leeds. This is a great opportunity to join a business where you can really grow with the business and develop and progress, long term wise.

Responsibilities

• Reporting to the International Client Team Manager, you will take ownership of your own workload and support the team/department objectives in delivering a high standard of work in a timely and professional manner.
• The escalation of issues to your Manager and Client Partner in a timely manner.
• Co-ordination of legal matters from initiation to closure.
• Creation and delivery of billing to some of the firm’s largest and most complex global clients.
• Proactively driving financial hygiene by guiding fee earners, partners and secretaries on the billing of WIP/disbursements and client debt status.
• The provision of a first class client service to both the client and all key stakeholders across the company\'s network.
• Building positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Actively identifying opportunities for process improvements to drive efficiencies.
• Production of weekly and monthly reporting to your client(s) and internal stakeholders (ie Partners).
• Ensuring that weekly and monthly checklists are completed for your client(s).

Qualifications / Skills

• A strong finance (AP/Billing/Revenue Control) background would be preferred but not essential as training can be provided.
• Experience of working within a fast paced environment.
• The ability to meet daily/weekly SLA\'s.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Able to prioritise your own workload to meet deadlines.
• Strong IT skills.

What’s on offer

• Hybrid working.
• Modern offices located in the centre of Leeds located next to good transport links.
• Working with a supportive, friendly team with scope for progression.

For further details please contact Becky Gibson.

To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful.

Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions