Practice Executive (Senior Legal Secretary/Executive Assistant)

At Ashurst Perkins Coie, we're helping shape the future economy. With a global team of more than 3,500 legal professionals across 52 offices, we partner with leading organisations to solve complex challenges across a diverse range of industries, with a distinct strength in technology, energy & infrastructure, and financial services. Our people work on market-leading matters that drive innovation, growth, and transformation around the world. For Ashurst Perkins Coie, innovation is our tradition.

What makes Ashurst Perkins Coie a great place to work?

• Health and wellbeing benefits, gym membership, and discounted corporate health plans.
• Family and caring - 26 weeks paid parental leave.
• Career advancement - award-winning Learning & Development programs.

The Opportunity

We have an exciting opportunity for a Practice Executive (Senior Legal Secretary/Executive Assistant) to join our Sydney office on a full time, permanent basis.

In this Practice Executive role, you will provide high level business support to Partners within your designated division. You will assist with the development of comprehensive knowledge of clients, markets, and work streams.

Some key areas of responsibility will include:

• Practice & Client Management
• Extensive Diary & Travel Management
• Monitoring and managing inboxes for Partners including filing emails
• Preparing monthly bills and reconciling expenses
• Business Development/Marketing
• Client reporting

Our Practice Executives play a pivotal role within the firm, ensuring that support services to legal staff are delivered appropriately and within a timely manner. You will work closely with our dedicated hub of Team Assistants to complete any administrative based tasks.

A full job description including a breakdown of responsibilities can be found attached to the role on our careers page: ashurstperkinscoie.com/en/careers

We are interested in hearing from people who have:

• Previous experience in a senior administration/Executive Assistant role in a law firm, or other professional services, or corporate environment.
• High degree of initiative, pro-activity and problem solving skills, with a willingness to take ownership for the completion of tasks/projects and deliver innovative solutions to improve systems or work practices.
• Commercial acumen, with the ability to understand the commercial drivers of a legal practice, interpret data and apply client knowledge when supporting partners with practice management.
• A client focused approach including the ability to grow a network of professional relationships with counterparts in client organisations as well as with internal stakeholders and colleagues around the firm.
• Excellent organisational skills.
• Strong written communication skills and keen attention to detail, with the ability to draft correspondence, presentations, pitch documents and slide packs quickly and accurately.

We value diverse perspectives at Ashurst Perkins Coie, so even if you don't feel you meet all of the requirements, we still encourage you to apply.

If you require any support and adjustments to participate equitably in our recruitment process or in the workplace, please contact: ••••@ashurstperkins.com for a confidential conversation.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply directly to Ashurst Perkins Coie. We prefer to talk with you personally and are not accepting applications from recruitment agencies.

Sydney 2000