French speaking Legal PA/Secretary

Job Location: Central London

Salary: up to £34,000 + excellent benefits

Reference: KH 28/01

Role:
French speaking Legal PA/Secretary

My client is looking for a French speaking legal PA/Secretary to provide full secretarial support, including arranging travel, expenses, preparing presentations, dictation typing and general administrative support to two lawyers. The French speaking PA/Secretary will also ensure that documents are produced quickly and accurately such as contracts, letters, e-mails and presentations from digital dictation and/or precedents and/or from scratch.

Company:
My client is a very successful International Firm

Profile:
Fully fluent (written and spoken) English and French are required;
Solid secretarial experience ideally gained working within a legal department or Law Firm
Advanced systems experience, ie Word, Excel, Lotus Notes, Powerpoint in both a Microsoft and Apple Mac environment is essential
Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to liaise with staff at all levels
Excellent time management and task organisational skills
Disciplined to work effectively with minimum supervision while being self-motivated and demonstrating initiative and pro-activeness
Good team player with a “can do approach”
Ability to develop effective working relationships across the department
Ability to use initiative and work consistently without close supervision
Meticulous attention to detail and takes pride in work
Ability to manage competing priorities
Forward thinking and able to plan ahead
Flexible approach to work and working hours

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