Job Description
Salary: £25k – £30k
Department: Residential Real Estate
Locations: Chelmsford
Working Hours: Mon – Fri (4 days in the office, 1 working from home)
Our client is currently recruiting a Residential Real Estate Assistant to come and join their friendly and proactive team in their Chelmsford office.
The Residential Real Estate 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.
The successful Assistant will work as part of a team, assisting in providing an efficient and accurate administrative service.
Our client is a UK Top 50 law firm with a heritage spanning 160 year who advise businesses, government, public sector organisations and individuals in the UK and internationally across four principal practice groups: private client advisory, property, corporate services and litigation.
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
* Long Service holiday award – 1 extra week every 10 years continuous service
* Private Healthcare with BUPA (offered after probation is passed)
* Scottish Widows Pension Scheme (5% employer / 5% Employee)
* Staff Profit Share and Individual Performance Bonus Scheme
* Salary sacrifice (Pensions, Staff Profit Share)
* Life Assurance – 4 x salary / Permanent Health Insurance
* Paid CSR Day
* Enhanced Maternity/Paternity Leave
* Subsidised gym membership
* Electric car scheme
* Agile/Hybrid Working Policy
* Dress for your Day Policy