PA - Real Estate

Blake and Blake Recruitment; Bristol; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A prestigious law firm in Bristol is seeking an experienced Legal Secretary to join their Real Estate department. This role offers the opportunity to provide proactive support to busy fee earners, manage diaries, coordinate travel and administer billing. Ideal candidates will have a background in property and demonstrate excellent communication skills. The firm values a supportive culture and provides great benefits, alongside competitive hours from Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm.

Benefits

Generous benefits

Supportive culture

John Lewis gift voucher upon successful placement

Qualifications

• Prior experience in a property environment is required.
• Must possess excellent communication skills.
• Ability to handle pressure and prioritize work.

Responsibilities

• Provide a proactive PA service to busy fee earners.
• Coordinate travel, meetings, and diary management.
• Assist with billing and maintain fee earners' inboxes.
• Conduct property searches and handle general administration.

Skills

Real Estate experience

Excellent communication

Attention to detail

IT skills (Word, Excel, Outlook)

Teamwork

Job description

Are you an experienced Legal Secretary looking for your next step in your business support career?

Based in the heart of Bristol, this international, well respected law firm have a need for an experienced individual to join their Real Estate department. Supporting a number of individuals, working within a team of support staff, this role will involve using your Real Estate/Commercial Property experience. With clients such as Barclays, Facebook, Siemens, Vodafone this role will require first class secretarial and administrative skills to offer the best service possible.

Day to day duties will include:

• Provide an effective and proactive PA service to a number of busy fee earners.
• Offer outstanding communication to both internal and external clients as well as other PA’s.
• Be responsible for travel arrangement, conference bookings, and meeting room bookings.
• Diary Management.
• Speak with clients, colleagues and third parties to provide and gather relevant information.
• Billing – working closely with the accounts department.
• Monitor and assist with fee earners inboxes.
• Conduct property searches.
• Deal with expenses.
• Assist with Client Relationship information.
• Deal with general administration including – filing, post, drafting correspondence, file opening, arranging files to be sent off site.Checking, registering and scheduling title deeds.
• Ad hoc projects as required.
• Support Senior PA’s when needed.

If this role sounds of interest then we would be delighted to talk to you about your work history and requirements for your next role. We do ask that applicants have similar experience within a property environment, are excellent communicators, happy to prioritise work, at times are happy to work under pressure. Have good IT skills including Word, Excel and Outlook.Enjoy working in a team and supporting others, as well as have good attention to detail.

Hours of work will be Monday to Friday 9am-5pm and along with a generous basic great benefits will be offered. firm are renowned for their unstuffy and supportive culture, and encourage their staff to make the most of their talent.

*** When Blake and Blake Recruitment successfully place a candidate into this PA role, a £100 John Lewis gift voucher will be offeredto them one month after they start work***