Legal Personal Assistant - Part Time (21 hrs) - Pensions

We are looking for a Senior Personal Assistant (Legal PA) to join our Pensions Team based in Birmingham City Centre working 21 hours per week., As a Senior Personal Assistant within our Pensions Team team you will be responsible for:

• Client relationship management; take ownership of administrative aspects of the firm's client care programmes, adhering to any service level agreements and ensuring the fee earners are aware of them.
• Administrative; Extensive diary and inbox management, travel arrangements and document production. Experience of using iManage/Worksite or similar is essential.
• Financial; coordinate client billing and invoicing, client reporting and processing expenses. Experience with Expert or other financial systems is essential.
• Compliance; new matter opening and supporting internal teams on conflict management.
As part of a wider team, you will be also have the opportunity to assist other PA's and work collaboratively with the business services team at the firm on all matters.

We're looking for a Senior Personal Assistant who is a problem solver, uses their initiative and has a proactive approach.

Gowling WLG has a multi award-winning pensions law team. We are around 50 Pensions Lawyers and 12 Personal Assistants, and we distinguish ourselves in the pensions law market by being good people to work with. Both the team and the firm as a whole regularly win awards for being a good place to work, for its diversity initiatives. Pensions operates as a single team across two UK offices, with roughly equal numbers in Birmingham and London. Most of our larger clients have lawyers from both offices on their client service teams., The opportunity to work for a firm which has been recognised as one of the best places to work in the UK and has been ranked by Great Place to WorkÂŽ for 24 consecutive years. Excellent benefits, including:
• A hybrid approach to office and remote working.
• 25 days annual leave, with the option to buy up to a week's extra annual leave
• Private medical insurance, and the option to add family members
• A generous pension allowance
• Life assurance covering four times your annual salary
• The chance of a three-month sabbatical every five years
• Maternity, paternity and adoption leave schemes
• A range of health and wellbeing programmes
• State of the art offices, in the heart of Birmingham City Centre, with an onsite restaurant
• Opportunities to flourish in your role through training and personal development
Many of our people work flexibly in some way. If you would like to explore your own flexible working arrangements with us, we are happy to discuss this during the recruitment process. Equal Opportunities: Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firm and to Equal Opportunities in employment. The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour, nationality, ethnicity and national origins), religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender re-assignment and gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy, maternity and paternity. This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment. At Gowling WLG we seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, to create an exciting and rewarding place to work. Our aim is to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals. Any offers we make will be conditional subject to clearance by the SRA, evidence of eligibility to work in the UK and DBS clearance.