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Secretary Senior

1 month ago


Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Bowmans Full time
Job title : Secretary Senior - Mergers and AcquisitionsJob Location : Gauteng, JohannesburgDeadline : March 07, 2025Quick Recommended Links
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About the job
Purpose:

  • Responsible for and performing administrative, legal secretarial and related duties and offering skilled legal assistance to head of practice group and/or their team.

Experience and Qualifications:

  • Senior Certificate
  • Paralegal Diploma or short legal courses advantageous/or qualified by experience
  • 5 to 10 years legal secretarial experience specifically in Corporate advantageous 
  • Advanced knowledge of MS Office package
  • Experience in a legal accounting package essential.

Key Accountabilities

Act as first point of contact

  • Liaise with people both inside and outside the firm, supporting the executive in his/her duties and responsibilities.
  • Acts with a high level of confidentiality and discretion.

Connecting people:

Professional and effective communication internally/externally

  • Screening of all calls to ensure that calls are handled or directed to correctly.
  • Manage all forms of communication efficiently to ensure that correct message gets across effectively and is dealt with accordingly.
  • Possess well developed interpersonal and communication skills and good telephone manner to ensure that all staff members, colleagues and clients are treated professionally.

Diary Management:

Scheduling and maintaining of calendars

  • Organise and manage the executive's diary and make appointments.
  • Updating executive on diary entries and ensuring that he/she is appropriately prepared prior to meetings/ events/presentations.
  • Ensure that the correct people are invited and available to attend; booking boardroom for meetings and conference calls (VC), booking catering if necessary, making sure enough time is allocated for travel for offsite meetings.
  • May act as team coordinator.

Document Generation

  • Produce specialized and general documentation and presentations necessary for clients.
  • Ensure the documents produced are of the highest standard through accurate typing paying special attention to detail and ensuring good spelling/grammar/punctuation.
  • Adhere to 'in-house' document style guide to maintain standardisation of documentation.
  • Amend documents using track changes and cross referencing, requiring advanced computer and software skills.
  • Carry out dictaphone and manuscript changes to various documents.

Office administration/management

  • Plays a pro-active role in ensuring that the department runs smoothly and requires a fair knowledge of legal terminology, processes, procedures and protocols to relieve workload of professionals wherever possible by providing support on various projects.
  • Maintain complex filing systems to track large volumes of legal filing deadlines, providing professionals with easy access to files and precedents.
  • Manage e-mail, respond or delegate where appropriate.
  • Arrange and coordinate team and inter-office planning/strategy sessions. 
  • Effective office management
  • General duties include preparing documents for internal meetings, copying, distribution and delivery of documents. 
  • May supervise junior staff and provide guidance mentoring and support to new staff members.
  • Collect and collate monthly department information from Practice Group Heads for inclusion in Management Board Report. 
  • May be responsible for maintaining specialist databases.

Travel Arrangements

  • Make all travel arrangements understanding preferences and ensuring cost effectiveness.
  • Arrange relevant meetings, set up a travel itinerary and prepare documentation.
  • Research travel and immigration requirements. Ensure that they are all met and Visa applications are processed timeously.
  • Manage unforeseen travel changes.

Meeting Support

  • Conduct background research where required.
  • Prepare necessary documentation and brief executive for meetings and engagements.
  • Action post meeting deliverables and follow-up

Finance Administration

  • Assist with departmental budget process, checking input, tracking spend, reconciling on a monthly basis to ensure budget and spend are aligned, liaising with finance team as and when necessary to ensure alignment.
  • Ensure the timeous and accurate time recording of hours worked by fee earners and producing final bills to clients for services rendered
  • Compile covering letters and send out final bills to clients timeously and assist Credit Controllers with debt collecting 
  • Processing reimbursement requisitions

Relationship Building

  • Develop and maintain relationships with all levels of staff as a trusted resource. 
  • Maintain strong working relationships with and have open and transparent communication between all members of the team
  • Develop and maintain relationships with vendors to ensure quality of service delivery

Competencies

  • Adaptability
  • Attention to Detail
  • Interactive Communication
  • Initiative 
  • Problem solving 
  • Resilience
  • Writing Skills
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