Senior Legal Assistant - #143795

Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where will you be working?

As an organisation, there is little we don’t do and plenty to get involved in. Our Group Support roles are vital in making sure we can help over 11,000 people deliver essential infrastructure seamlessly across water, energy, transport and telecom.

Want to come and be a part of it?

What will you be doing?

Are you passionate about legal operations and technology, with a knack for financial administration? We’re looking for a proactive and highly organised professional to join our team, helping to drive efficiency and innovation within our legal function. In this role, you’ll manage financial administration associated with legal invoicing and budgeting using Legal Tracker, oversee relationships with our external legal panel, and support the General Counsel in developing and integrating legal tech platforms.

You’ll work closely with IT and Communications teams to ensure seamless implementation of legal technology, while also fostering collaboration through effective data management systems, including maintaining the Legal intranet page. Your expertise will help provide valuable reporting insights into our legal team’s workflow and performance. Plus, you’ll lend vital administrative support, from diary management to coordinating legal events, webinars, and training sessions.

If you’re ready to bring structure, innovation, and engagement to a dynamic legal environment, we’d love to hear from you!

What you’ll bring:

• Experience working in a law firm or in-house legal department
• Experience of working with external legal panels and managing invoicing
• Experience of legal databases, systems and platforms
• Excellent administration skills and attention to detail
• Strong data and reporting skills
• Solid IT skills including PowerPoint, Excel and Oracle (desirable)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  
  

What’s in it for you?

We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;

• Matched or contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Employee assistance programme
• My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
• Reward and recognition scheme
  
  

In addition, this role offers;

• Private health care and health care cash plan for you (and your family)
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Recommend a friend - get rewarded for introducing people to us!
• Flexible working
  
  

About Us

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We’re one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

• We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
• We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
• We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
• We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life
  
  

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.

It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.

For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.

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