Part Time Night Legal Document Specialist

Location
City of London
Salary
£26 per hour
Posted
18 Feb 2019
Closes
22 Feb 2019
Ref
DP49
Job Title
Legal Secretary
Contract Type
Temporary
Hours
Part Time

Part Time Night Legal Document Specialist

Ongoing Temporary

£26 per hour

Wednesday - Friday 12am-8am

City of London

An exciting new night shift Legal Document Specialist opportunity has just become available working within a top global law firm in the City. Our client has just implemented a dedicated Document Production department to the firm and they are looking for experienced and talented professionals to join them on an ongoing temporary basis.

You will be providing a professional support function for the firm across all practice and business services groups. You will be an excellent audio and copy typist and will be capable of amending and formatting complex documentation. You will be able to convert and manipulate Word and PDF documents, plus prepare diagrams, slides and spreadsheets.

This is an ongoing temporary night shift position working Wednesday to Friday 12am-8am with a very generous salary of £26 per hour.

The team are a friendly group of professionals who take a collaborative approach towards fellow support staff. You will be reliable and will possess a 'can do' outlook. You will take responsibility and pride in the standard of work the team provides. Full training will be given.

The main duties and responsibilities are as follows:

  • Managing production of large documents (produced in-house and externally) during the negotiation of a transaction, coordinating changes made to those documents by the legal team and client teams including taking responsibility for the consistency of those documents throughout the transaction.
  • Audio typing, producing documents/letters/e-mails and memos as necessary.
  • Amending PowerPoint presentations, diagrams and charts.
  • Managing Marketing & Business Development templates, including bids, flyers, legal updates, team booklets and team sheets.
  • Reviewing internal client requests, assessing project requirements and allocating tasks according to skillset within the team.
  • Coordination/prioritisation of the team's workload in accordance with client deadlines and urgency of work including monitoring project status and intervening as necessary to reprioritise jobs.

Qualifications & Experience:

  • Advanced document production skills to include accurate typing, spelling, grammar and proofreading.
  • Advanced Word skills; such as styles, cross-referencing, tracked changes, table of contents, etc.
  • Advanced knowledge of PowerPoint: embedding files, animations, transitions, etc.
  • Advanced knowledge of Excel: formula, pivot tables, charts, conditional formatting, etc.
  • Advanced knowledge of PDF conversion and comparison software.
  • Advanced knowledge of automatic numbering and house styles.
  • Digital document processing functions, Adobe Acrobat 5.0 upwards.

In addition to a fantastic salary, this firm offers the following additional perks:

  • Competitive benefits package
  • Free fruit for staff members
  • Generous employee referral bonus program
  • All year-round dress down

This is a fantastic opportunity for a skilled and experienced document Specialist to grow their career in an exciting position in a friendly, corporate environment. If this sounds like something you would be interested in then please send your CV to Gemma Grima-Brown at HYF today.

Important Notice

It is HYF’s policy, as a matter of courtesy to respond to all applications within three working days. However, because of the volume of applications, we are sometimes unable to respond to individual candidates. If we have not contacted you within three working days your application has been unsuccessful and your details have not been retained. Please apply for any other position that you may see in the future.

HYF is a Recruitment Agency and is advertising this vacancy on behalf of one of its Clients. Thank you.