Senior Commercial Competition Secretary

Overview

Job Title: Senior Commercial Secretary

We are seeking a Senior Commercial Secretary to support our executive team and assist in managing day-to-day administrative tasks related to commercial operations. The ideal candidate will have previous experience in a similar role and be able to handle multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

• Commercial, competition and litigation secretarial experience essential
• Amendments to complex documents (ability to work with track changes, cross‑referencing, footnotes, comments, PowerPoint,
• Annotating, highlighting, redacting, collating and compressing large sets of PDF documents
• Preparing, organising and arranging physical and electronic document records (. merger filings, document discoveries, briefs to counsel, trial bundles, regulatory submissions, RFQs
• Retrieving legal texts from electronic databases for inclusion in documents
• Dictaphone and copy‑typing of documents
• Preparing resource and client files
• Administering and organising legal practice
• Preparing accounts for clients, posting time on a daily basis, monitoring payments to counsel, monitoring outstanding debtors and trust balances
• Developing and maintaining electronic and physical filing systems and ensuring that the filing system is kept up to date

• 10 plus years experience as a legal secretary
• Excellent knowledge of and technical skills with Microsoft Office Suite programmes (more specifically MS Word 2010), MS Excel essential and PowerPoint essential
• Knowledge of Aderant Expert (CMS) accounting system
• Knowledge of iManage
• Matric essential
• Paralegal advantageous

Employment Type:

Full Time