Practice Management Assistant, Disputes

**SYDNEY - CBD**

**THE OPPORTUNITY**

Are you an experienced Legal Assistant wishing to step in your Career? If so we have an exciting opportunity for a Practice Management Assistant (PMA) to join our high performing Sydney team within our Disputes Practice Group on a permanent full-time basis.

This role will manage a high volume practice which will require strong matter management skills, with a predominant focus on financial management and billing, whilst also being able to take on new technology to improve our processes to meet the team's needs.

Our PMAs attend to a wide range of activities that respond to the evolving landscape of our business and the drivers of the Practice Group they support including:

- financial management activities - whether that be providing assistance with complex billing; taking on billing and reporting responsibilities at a client/matter level; or putting systems in place for consistent time/billing arrangements;
- continuous process improvement - reviewing current processes and identifying gaps and/or opportunities for change;
- mentoring / knowledge sharing - mentoring to junior or new starters and sharing knowledge acquired with others.

**SKILLS, EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS**

To be successful in this role you will have:

- Demonstrated strong experience in a support role working in a professional services firm with demonstrated experience in billing and financial management (legal firm experience is desired).
- Microsoft Office knowledge and skills (advanced - Excel; intermediate - Outlook, Power BI, SharePoint, Word).
- Proven ability to learn, develop and implement new ways of working and to adopt new systems. In particular, being able to adopt current technology to improve processes and procedures.
- Excellent digital and verbal storytelling to communicate insights and influence key stakeholders within the business.
- Well developed technical experience building and maintaining tools and reports.
- Proven organisational and time management skills with the ability to maintain a high level of attention to detail and organisational skills to prioritise workload and meet deadlines.
- Displays good judgement and problem-solving ability.
- Proven organisational and time management skills with the ability to maintain a high level of attention to detail and organisational skills to prioritise workload and meet deadlines.
- Displays good judgement and problem-solving ability.
- Demonstrated strong experience in a support role working in a professional services firm (legal firm experience is desired).

**GROUP / TEAM**

Dispute resolution

**GROUP / TEAM DESCRIPTION**

**What we Offer**
- At Herbert Smith Freehills we value flexibility. For most roles, we work an average of 60% of the time in the office, taking into consideration individual, team, client and learning needs.
- To continue to support our staff working from home as a part of Agile 60, we offer an allowance for home office furniture as well as IT equipment.
- We recognise that the success of our business and our clients relies on the skills, knowledge and ideas of all our people. We are dedicated to creating an exceptional experience for our clients and we value empathy, simplicity and commerciality.
- At Herbert Smith Freehills you will be part of a diverse, innovative culture where high performance, client focus, and highly engaged people are our differentiator. People at our firm come from a range of backgrounds and bring a wide variety of experiences and perspectives to their work with us. We strive to ensure that our inclusive environment means you feel valued and able to perform at your best by being your authentic self at work. We know that our future success not only depends on being innovative and progressive in the changing legal market but, most importantly, on our people feeling highly engaged in meaningful work.
- People join us to develop their careers and themselves. To support this we provide contemporary tailored learning programs, regular career conversations and a culture of feedback.

**ROLE TYPE**

Legal PA/Secretarial

**CONTRACT TYPE**

Permanent

**WORKING PATTERN**

Full Time

**DIVERSITY & INCLUSION**

We aim to have a diverse, innovative culture where high performance, client focus and highly engaged people are our differentiator and where we celebrate the uniqueness of our people. Our firm is made up of people with a range of experience and backgrounds. We strive to ensure that our inclusive environment means our people feel valued and able to perform at their best by being their authentic selves at work. We know that our future success not only depends on being innovative and progressive in the changing legal market but, most importantly, on our people feeling engaged.

Herbert Smith Freehills