Secretary (Temporary)
Tax & Estate Planning
Southampton
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The Role
We are looking for a talented Secretary to join our Tax & Estate Planning team in Southampton on a temporary basis for an estimated 12 months. The right candidate will be an excellent team player who can support various fee earners with high caseloads. You will need to be highly organised, able to handle first-line client queries and proficient in typing from dictation.
Principal Duties & Responsibilities
- Typing from dictation and producing documents
- Preparing various documents
- Dealing with telephone enquiries, both internal and external
- Acting as the first point of contact for the team
- Communicating with clients
- Ensuring file compliance
- Diary management
- Filing and general administration
The Candidate
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Highly organised
- Accurate typing skills and attention to detail when inputting information
- A good team player
- Flexible and proactive approach
- Good IT skills, particularly in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.)
- Willing to take ownership of, and be accountable for, their own work
- Tax & Estate Planning experience would be a distinct advantage
Rewards & Benefits
In return, we offer a competitive salary, a comprehensive range of benefits and a first-class working environment within a leading regional law firm.
To apply for this role, please submit your application via the link. If you have any questions about this vacancy, please email recruitment@parissmith.co.uk.
Rewards & Benefits
We want you to thrive at Paris Smith and be the best version of yourself. That’s why we do what we can to support your health and happiness both at work and outside it.
As well as a competitive salary, we offer a range of other benefits.
Competitive salary
We’ll give you a salary that’s appropriate for your experience, service line and location. We use third-party market research to make sure what we pay is competitive compared with the rest of the market.
Performance incentive
We take a performance driven approach at Paris Smith. So, if you perform well and are eligible, you may receive a bonus on top of your salary.
Benefits
Whilst pay is of course important, we look to provide a broad range of benefits as well, focused on health, wellbeing and family.
- 26 days’ holiday (increasing by one day per one year of service up to a maximum of 30 days) plus bank holidays
- Pension scheme membership
- Private medical insurance (subject to eligibility)
- Group income protection (subject to eligibility)
- Life assurance cover
- Personal accident cover
- Discounted legal fees
- Data protection and privacy notice
Wellbeing
At Paris Smith, the health and wellbeing of our staff is of the utmost importance. In support of this, we offer:
- access to a number of fully trained Mental Health First Aiders;
- health assessments (subject to eligibility);
- an annual Wellbeing Week;
- annual flu vaccinations;
- eyecare vouchers;
- financial wellbeing – access to professional financial advice throughout the year; and
- Employee Assistance Programme.
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You will work closely with partners, solicitors and other fee earners within our Tax & Estate Planning team, providing comprehensive secretarial and administrative support while acting as a key point of contact for clients and colleagues.
If you believe you are the person we are looking for, please complete the form below and upload your CV
Have a question before you apply?
Email the Recruitment team at recruitment@parissmith.co.uk
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