Job Description
About the Role
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Legal Services Assistant to join our in-house legal team. You will join an established legal team, where as a Legal Services Assistant you will be responsible for a number of different administrative tasks supporting not only your legal colleagues, but also the Society and its subsidiaries on a variety of areas from data protection, member tasks and corporate governance issues.
You will be the first point of contact for any queries from the Group, monitoring a variety of departmental inboxes and compiling responses to queries under the supervision of our knowledgeable and experienced team. You will also be responsible for keeping up-to-date with legal developments and changes, including regularly reviewing regulatory / legal publications as and when they are published and advising the legal team and/or wider Group (if appropriate) of any upcoming changes and measures to be taken by the Group.
This is a busy role where no two days are the same, and you will be required to work with a degree of independence and using initiative, within a supportive environment. Given the variety of work streams that the legal team is involved in, there is scope for you to shape the role.
About You
You will have excellent organisational, written and verbal skills and will demonstrate a strong attention to detail, combined with a good knowledge of Microsoft applications (particularly Word, Excel and PowerPoint). You will have good analytical and problem solving skills and the ability to grasp new concepts quickly and accurately, to enable you to acquire the necessary technical knowledge in a short space of time. You will have the natural ability to build relationships and communicate at all levels. A basic understanding of the Financial Services sector or experience working within a legal environment in a similar role would be desirable.
What do you get in return?
As well as receiving a competitive annual salary based on above-market pay scales, our reward package includes: Hybrid working – typically 3 days’ homeworking and 2 days’ office based A 35-hour weekly contract - We are happy to talk flexible working and welcome discussions around how and when people work including part-time hours 25 days holiday each year plus bank holidays (increasing with length of service) Bonus Scheme (paid annually) - On target 5%, up to 10% depending on performance Colleague mortgage scheme and access to our financial advisors Pension scheme – up to 9% employers’ contribution Life assurance (4x salary) and income protection Access to a range of wellbeing benefits, including Medicash scheme Electric car salary sacrifice scheme Cycle to Work scheme Above statutory family leave entitlement - 3 months full pay, 3 months half pay regardless of gender or route to parenthood An extra day’s holiday for your birthday The option to buy and sell holidays Two paid volunteering days each year A broad range of learning and development opportunities Access to a range of high street and online discounts Free onsite gym at Cobalt and access to a range of discounted/subsidised gym memberships nationwide A wide range of recognition initiatives to recognise and reward great performance Recognising there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to recruitment, we’re committed to ensuring every candidate has the opportunity to showcase their full potential throughout the recruitment process. We strive to make our processes as accessible as possible, if there are any ways in which we can provide support or make adjustments, we would love to discuss this with you, you can contact your Recruiter for this vacancy at kate.wilkinson@newcastle.co.uk Job Type: Full-time Pay: £22,723.00-£26,144.00 per year Work Location: Hybrid remote in Wallsend NE28 9EJ
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As well as receiving a competitive annual salary based on above-market pay scales, our reward package includes: Hybrid working – typically 3 days’ homeworking and 2 days’ office based A 35-hour weekly contract - We are happy to talk flexible working and welcome discussions around how and when people work including part-time hours 25 days holiday each year plus bank holidays (increasing with length of service) Bonus Scheme (paid annually) - On target 5%, up to 10% depending on performance Colleague mortgage scheme and access to our financial advisors Pension scheme – up to 9% employers’ contribution Life assurance (4x salary) and income protection Access to a range of wellbeing benefits, including Medicash scheme Electric car salary sacrifice scheme Cycle to Work scheme Above statutory family leave entitlement - 3 months full pay, 3 months half pay regardless of gender or route to parenthood An extra day’s holiday for your birthday The option to buy and sell holidays Two paid volunteering days each year A broad range of learning and development opportunities Access to a range of high street and online discounts Free onsite gym at Cobalt and access to a range of discounted/subsidised gym memberships nationwide A wide range of recognition initiatives to recognise and reward great performance Recognising there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to recruitment, we’re committed to ensuring every candidate has the opportunity to showcase their full potential throughout the recruitment process. We strive to make our processes as accessible as possible, if there are any ways in which we can provide support or make adjustments, we would love to discuss this with you, you can contact your Recruiter for this vacancy at kate.wilkinson@newcastle.co.uk Job Type: Full-time Pay: £22,723.00-£26,144.00 per year Work Location: Hybrid remote in Wallsend NE28 9EJ
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