About the position
Job Title: Senior Commercial Secretary
Job Description:
We are seeking a Senior Commercial Secretary to support our executive team and assist in managing day-to-day administrative tasks related to commercial operations. The ideal candidate will have previous experience in a similar role and be able to handle multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities:
- Commercial, competition and litigation secretarial experience essential
- Amendments to complex documents (ability to work with track changes, cross-referencing, footnotes, comments, PowerPoint, etc.)
- Annotating, highlighting, redacting, collating and compressing large sets of PDF documents
- Preparing, organising and arranging physical and electronic document records (e.g. merger filings, document discoveries, briefs to counsel, trial bundles, regulatory submissions, RFQs etc.)
- Retrieving legal texts from electronic databases for inclusion in documents
- Dictaphone and copy-typing of documents
- Preparing resource and client files
- Administering and organising legal practice
- Preparing accounts for clients, posting time on a daily basis, monitoring payments to counsel, monitoring outstanding debtors and trust balances
- Developing and maintaining electronic and physical filing systems and ensuring that the filing system is kept up to date
Requirements:
- 10 plus years experience as a legal secretary
- Excellent knowledge of and technical skills with Microsoft Office Suite programmes (more specifically MS Word 2010), MS Excel essential and PowerPoint essential
- Knowledge of Aderant Expert (CMS) accounting system
- Knowledge of iManage
- Matric essential
- Paralegal advantageous
This is an exciting opportunity for a dedicated and experienced professional to join our team and contribute to the success of our commercial operations. If you meet the above requirements and are seeking a challenging and rewarding role, we encourage you to apply for the position of Senior Commercial Secretary with our company.
Desired Skills:
- Senior Commercial Competition Secretary
- Senior Commercial Competition Secretary
- Senior Commercial Competition Secretary
