Residential Property Assistant

Salary: £14.4 – £18 per hour

Residential Property Assistant – Cambridge

Competitive salary + Benefits

Our client have an exciting opportunity for a Residential Property Assistant where you will work as part of a very busy and rapidly growing Residential Property team to provide professional and dedicated administrative support to a team leader.

Tasks will include:

• Update clients and agents regularly and provide email and phone cover when team leader is not available
• Drafting contract packs and ad hoc letters
• Preparing files for completion and attending to post-completion matters through to file closure
• Supporting and building working relationships with the team leader and wider team members liaising with staff from other departments and external contacts as required
• Accurately maintaining and updating client and other relevant contact details on the firm’s database
• Processing all forms including client questionnaires, money laundering form
• Assisting in maintaining compliant and accurate file management and office systems
• Proof reading all work
• Preparing report bundles both electronically and manually
• Preparing completion statements and accounts forms
• Scheduling and managing deeds to ensure records are kept up to date
• Immediately clarifying instructions from fee earners should they be unclear or if deadlines are not made explicit
• Using the HMRC and HMLR portals for submitting Stamp Duty Land Tax returns and HM Land Registry applications.

Skills Required:

• Ability to show initiative when responding to queries and actively try to seek solutions to problems
• An expert in a variety of software packages such as Microsoft Word, Outlook and Excel
• Ability to work at a fast pace but still have the high level of attention to detail and accuracy.
• Positive and professional approach
• Able to communicate with a wide variety of different people 
• Strong organisational skills
• Work efficiently and effectively under pressure and to deadlines
• Self-motivated and reliable with an ability to use own initiative

Benefits include:

• Private Healthcare (offered after probation is passed)
• Pension Scheme
• Staff Profit Share / Salary sacrifice (Pensions, Staff Profit Share)
• Life Assurance / Permanent Health Insurance
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity Leave
• Discounted legal services.

Alternatively for more information and a confidential discussion please contact Hollie Preston at Errington Legal Recruitment.