2 Legal jobs in Maesteg, Pen-y-bont Ar Ogwr - Bridgend

We have an excellent opportunity for a Legal Assistant to join us, playing an integral part to our Legal department. As our Legal Assistant you will be supporting the Legal team to identify, manage and mitigate legal and regulatory risks. The successful applicant for this role will be able to work collaboratively providing the Head of Legal and team with effective support, enabling the business to meet its strategic objectives. Responsibilities:

• Provide support to the Solicitors in the team and Head of Legal, alongside running their own cases.
• Manage queries coming into the team inbox, allocating to the relevant business partner resource (and responding directly where required).
• Maintaining records and filing systems, assisting with legal projects including research
• Supporting the solicitors to make sure all deadlines are met, and accurate records of all advice are kept.
• Provide litigation support and act as a point of contact on various cases, to ensure that litigation risk within the Society is managed appropriately and the Society's brand is protected.
• Complete horizon scanning, ensuring upcoming legislative and regulatory change is identified and the business is supported to respond to any change.
  
  A team player, who can create and maintain a supportive environment
• Strong level of accuracy and attention to detail
• The ability to manage a varied workload at pace
• Excellent critical judgment with the ability to balance risk and pragmatism
• Effective communicator with strong written and interpersonal skills
• The ideal person for this role will have previous legal work experience in either a commercial law firm or in house environment. Financial services experience would be an advantage
  
  Our home is your home. So, when you decide to join the team, we'll go further to bring you the warmest of welcomes. From a friendly and inviting environment to a flexible benefit package designed around you - when it comes to belonging, there really is no place like Principality. We keep it flexible wherever possible; we encourage you to look after yourself; we do our bit in the communities we serve and support you in doing the same, and we promise to get better together.
Some reasons you may want to consider working with us; we have an award-winning flexible/hybrid working policy, we're a 2022 winner of UK Best Large Workplaces for Women, we have a refurbished hi-tech office in the centre of Cardiff designed around colleague feedback, we ranked number 6 for wellbeing in 2022, we have an extensive financial and well-being benefits package ''Belong'' designed to put our people first, we have consistent colleague engagement scores of over 85% and a caring community of supportive Networks. But that's not all, discover why there's really no place like Principality