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Document Production Assistant
Edinburgh City Centre | hybrid working available
Permanent role | Full time hours | Monday to Friday | 9:00am to 5:00pm
Salary up to 34,000 per annum + benefits (depending on experience)
Search Consultancy are delighted to be working with a leading Legal firm based in Edinburgh City Centre to recruit this role on a permanent basis.
The successful candidate will be responsible for providing a comprehensive specialist document creation service to Partners and colleagues across the Firm.
Duties involved in this role will include:
* Providing a specialist document creation service to Partners and colleagues across the Firm involving the production of legal correspondence and documentation, as well as formatting and producing court documents
* Creating, formatting and updating a wide range of complex documents, reports, spreadsheets and presentations as well as transcribing audio files
* Converting documents into "house-style" using branded templates using track changes and other software (e.g. Deltaview) in order to produce comparison documents as required
* Converting PDF documents where required, as well as troubleshooting on any problem documents
* Cleaning & removing hidden metadata from documents
* Proofreading and quality checking all work to ensure it is accurate, consistent and meets the firm's standards
* Thoroughly completing the required workflow for each job undertaken and ensuring documents are produced within the firm's Service Level Standards
* Identifying opportunities to streamline current working procedures and participate in a continuous improvement framework for the department
In order to be considered for this role your skills and experience should include:
* Previous experience in & knowledge of formatting & producing legal & court documentation to the highest standard with 100% accuracy - this experience is ESSENTIAL and candidates from a Legal or Professional Services background would be preferred
* Excellent communication skills, both written & verbal
* First class organisation skills with the ability to prioritise & complete a very busy workload efficiently
* Complete confidentiality in your work as you will be required to handle sensitive legal information as part of your role
If this is the role for you, apply now!
Please note that only applicants who have the required skills and experience detailed above will be considered for this role.
Search is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from all suitably skilled or qualified applicants, regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/beliefs, sexual orientation or age.
