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Salary: £25k - £30k
Location: Chelmsford
The Conveyancing Assistant is an exciting role where you will work as part of a very busy and rapidly growing Residential Property team to provide professional and dedicated support to a team leader.
As a Conveyancing Assistant, you will have a passion for all things 'property’ related, you will understand the confidential element of the role and have the ability to work at a fast pace but still have the high level of attention to detail and accuracy.
You will play a key role in the provision of a high quality and responsive admin service, continuously applying improvements to increase client satisfaction, you will work collaboratively to maintain a consistency approach across the team.
Our client is a UK Top 50 law firm. With a heritage spanning 160 years, they have more than 700 lawyers and legal professionals.
The Department:
The Residential Property Team comprises 60+ members operating out of each office but working together as one team. Within the team, enfranchisement is a specialist and growing sector with three full time fee earners, a paralegal and Team Leader.
Main Responsibilities:
- Update clients and agents regularly and provide email and phone cover when team leader is not available
- Drafting contract packs and ad hoc letters
- Preparing files for completion and attending to post-completion matters through to file closure
- Able to show initiative when responding to queries and actively try to seek solutions to problems
- Supporting and building working relationships with the team leader and wider team members
- Effectively liaising with staff from other departments and external contacts as required
- Accurately maintaining and updating client and other relevant contact details on the firm’s database
- Processing all forms including client questionnaires, money laundering form
- Assisting in maintaining compliant and accurate file management and office systems
- Proofreading all work, checking for spelling and grammar
- Preparing report bundles both electronically and manually
- Preparing completion statements and accounts forms
- Scheduling and managing deeds to ensure records are kept up to date
- Immediately clarifying instructions from fee earners should they be unclear or if deadlines are not made explicit
Key Skills/Experience Needed:
- Positive and professional approach
- Able to communicate with a wide variety of different people from first time buyers to multi-million-pound investor clients, buying and selling agents and mortgage brokers
- Attention to detail
- Strong organisational skills
- Work efficiently and effectively under pressure and to deadlines
- Self-motivated and reliable with an ability to use own initiative
- Positive and professional approach
Benefits:
- 25 days holiday (FTE) plus Bank Holidays rising with service
- Long Service holiday award - 1 extra week every 10 years continuous service
- Private Healthcare - BUPA (offered after probation is passed)
- Scottish Widows Pension Scheme (5% employer / 5% Employee)
- Staff Profit Share / Salary sacrifice (Pensions, Staff Profit Share)
- Life Assurance - 4 x salary / Permanent Health Insurance
- Paid ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) day
- Enhanced Maternity/Paternity Leave
- Season Ticket Loan
- Gym Flex membership
- Electric car scheme
- Dress for your Day Policy
- Agile Working Policy
