We're looking to speak with experienced Senior Executive Assistant who are looking for an exciting new opportunity with a well known and highly respected Scottish Law Firm in their Edinburgh office.

What you’ll do

• Act as the first point of contact for day-to-day workloads of the secretarial team via BigHand (workload management tool) /team central in-box ensuring all work is complete within required timescales for the legal team and our clients. 

• Effectively deliver a seamless secretarial/administrative support service to the business.

• Take responsibility to support the EAs and secretarial team

• Allocate new start lawyers and secretarial support to the assigned legal team via the BigHand server 

• Update the colleague directory for the legal team in respect of secretarial new start details

• Identify and organise opportunities for secretarial development

• Dealing with internal senior EA cover within the team 

• Manage annual leave requests received from your secretarial team 

• In addition to the tasks outlined above the role holder will be expected to perform their EA duties

What you’ll need

• Highly experienced and outstanding performer with a proven track record as an EA.

• Possess knowledge and experience of working within a busy secretarial team.

• Strong communicator and ability to build and maintain relationships at all levels from Senior Partner to to the secretarial team.

• Excellent time management and organisational skills.

• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.

• Excellent in the use of Microsoft applications: 

  • Word – track changes/mail merge.

  • Outlook – diary management, contacts, tasks. 

  • Excel.

  • PowerPoint.

• Experience of Adarent, DMS (essential) and Bighand (essential)

• Accurate and competent in document production including formatting and presentation

What you’ll receive

• Competitive salary

• Life Assurance

• Discretionary bonus

• Pension scheme

• Income Protection

• Electric car salary sacrifice

• Smart working policy

• Enhanced Family Leave

• And more...

What’s next?

Contact Susan for more info or apply via the link below.

Equal Opportunities

Cross Resourcing is committed to equal opportunities regardless of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief and age.