Legal - Administrative Assistant - Birmingham

West Midlands, England, United Kingdom

12/14/2024

Job Description

We are searching for a highly motivated Administrative Assistant with 3+ years Admin experience to support multiple managing directors and their respective legal teams across various office locations/time zones. Previous experience in supporting executives or lawyers and managing complex diaries is essential. The role requires exceptional multitasking abilities, strong communication skills and a keen attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Supporting MDs and their teams
• Maintaining detailed calendars and prioriti s ing meeting requests
• Providing legal spend management support and proactively managing legal billing for the teams
• Book travel arrangements (cars, international flights, accommodation and visas)
• Expense management, ensuring expenses are processed in a timely fashion
• Coordinating internal meetings with senior leaders and high-level stakeholders at the firm and forming good relationships with Executive Admins throughout the firm
• Implementing divisional policies and providing guidance to their teams
• Maintaining a strong understanding of firm policies to allow handling of certain issues independently
• Responsible for participating in general administrative duties and taking on ad-hoc requests as required
  
  

Skills

• 3+ years of Admin Assistant experience
• Requires excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong proficiency in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
• Strong organi s ational skills, coupled with great attention to detail
• Ability to solve problems quickly and efficiently
• Self-starter with excellent anticipation skills; problem solving; follow up and judgment
• Comfortable working with people at all organizational levels
• Ability to work well under pressure, adapt to unexpected events, prioritize and multi-task in a deadline driven environment
• Must be able to prioritize a variety of time-sensitive tasks
• Team player with a positive attitude
• Highest degree of integrity, professionalism, diplomacy and discretion required with the ability to handle highly sensitive, confidential information with a high degree of integrity and confidentiality
  
  

About Goldman Sachs

At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world.

We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.

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