Legal PA - Technology Firm based in Milton Keynes

A Global Technology firm based in Milton Keynes is recruiting a PA/Legal Secretary to join their growing Legal team. You will mainly be supporting The General Counsel providing PA support while also being an integral member of the team responsible for ensuring 2 other members of the Legal Department are support on an adhoc basis.

This role requires flexibility to engage with multiple customer and internal business units, consequently, this role requires mobility to travel to customer sites and some of the other company offices, however reasonable notice will be given where possible.

Your duties will consist of but not limited to:
* Provide secretarial and administrative support to the GC (particularly performing secretarial duties that require knowledge of legal procedures and terminology, and sourcing legal information).
* Expected workload ratio - 80% attention to the GC and 20% to team administration.
* Full responsibility for dealing with correspondence, including email screening
* Production of letters and presentations from dictation and/or notes
* Full responsibility of diary management - responding to internal/external requests for meetings/workshops/customer events
* Arranging external and internal events including room bookings, catering and refreshment arrangements, management of equipment as appropriate
* Planning and preparation of travel schedule including all arrangements (flights, trains and hotel bookings)
* Maintaining travel expenses for GC on a weekly basis, ensuring expenses are correctly submitted and reimbursed
* Purchase Order requisitions, liaising frequently with Finance to ensure all supplier issues are addressed in a timely fashion
* General administrative office duties including faxing, scanning and photocopying
* Responsible for ensuring management meetings are formalised (agenda and minute taking), appropriate documentation is retained and actions followed through
* Ensuring guests are cared for adequately when visiting, taking initiative in resolving customer queries
* Ensuring GC is well prepared for meetings, preparation of notes, presentations and agendas in advance of meetings.
* Proactive relationship building with customers and customer's PA's or EA's
* Taking on ad-hoc project work e. production of weekly reports, Prepare papers and correspondence in such matters as contracts, Legal briefs, summonses and complaints.
* Prepare briefings on UK law and collate European Directives.
* Liaise and assist with global Legal Counsels.
* Ensure all PO requests are completed & liaise with finance to ensure suppliers are paid.
* Process team holidays and expenses
* Meet & greet guests, arrange catering

Key Skills/Requirements:
* Previous experience of working at an Executive level
* Previous senior level Legal secretarial experience
* Proven experience of high quality administration work
* Exceptional secretarial/ administration/support skills
* High proficiency of MS Office, Excel and PowerPoint
* Highly developed verbal and written communication skills
* Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to identify and own issues
* Good time management skills, ability to prioritise workload and meet deadlines
* An understanding of confidentiality and the use of tact and discretion
* Confident telephone manner and ability to convey professional image at all times
* Ability to act on own initiative and work unsupervised
* Able to deal with people at all levels
* Able to work well in sometimes highly pressured environments
* Excellent attention to detail
* Strong interpersonal skills
* Analytical and problem solving attributes
* A strong team player with cultural sensitivity
* Numerate and able to work with and interpret financial data

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