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.