New Business Solutions Administrator

Job Title : New Business Solutions Administrator

Location : Birmingham or Glasgow

About the Business :

Here at Pinsent Masons we bring together the best people to get the job done. We're naturally curious, constantly learning, listening, and growing. We'll truly value your ideas. You'll be joining an award-winning, hardworking and commercially minded team, where you'll have the opportunity to work with leading experts and form meaningful relationships, while making a difference. You'll get the opportunity to be involved in varied and challenging work. Working in an open and supportive environment, to deliver outstanding results.

The Team :

Regulatory Compliance and Risk Management is crucial to Pinsent Masons. Here at Pinsent Masons, our General Counsels Office ensure that all regulatory requirements are met and adhered to.

The General Counsel's Office consists of sub-teams specialising in different regulatory requirements, and we are based across the UK, Europe, Asia Pac, Middle East and Australia. Each team supports their own time zones, which includes public holidays.

To maintain team morale and dynamic, the team have a structure in place whereby we work from the office two days one week, and one day the following week.

The team overall deal with different queries and questions on a day-to-day basis. The role would entail ensuring the team are well supported with their administrative tasks and that the queries from the business are also answered in a timely manner where appropriate.

The ideal candidates must be enthusiastic, motivated, service driven, flexible and have an eye for detail. They will be rewarded with an excellent starting salary, great corporate benefits, and a chance to grow and develop their skills in an innovative and fast paced firm.

The Role :

As outlined briefly above, the purpose of this role is to provide an effective and efficient administrative service to the GCO team. This will involve ensuring that day-to-day tasks are completed in a timely manner.

The role entails carrying out administrative tasks as part of the file opening process, triaging queries to relevant teams within the GCO team. There should be an ability to answer any ad-hoc process queries which come in to help support the business needs where necessary.

The role also includes the management, creation and removal of information barriers. Information Barriers are crucial in maintaining client confidentiality and potential conflicts within the firm. We must ensure matters are locked down as requested (i.e. ensure that these barriers are actioned / applied accordingly).

The role requires sending out the team weekly rotas and help with any straightforward matters that come in to help our dedicated conflicts and AML team where necessary.

Candidate Overview :

The most important skills you will need is excellent administration and communication skills, an eye for detail and highly motivated. Your helpful nature and calm approach will give confidence to our team, ensuring we maintain our great reputation. in addition, we'd like to see the following skills :

• Excellent administration and organisational skills, with attention to detail
• Confident and methodical
• Effective team player as well as working well independently.
• Direct, honest, and dedicated work ethic
• Enthusiastic
• Self-motivated and work on own initiative
• Professional and smart appearance
• Service driven
• Ability to remain calm under pressure

What can we offer you?

What happens next?

Once your application has been submitted and reviewed, our Recruitment team will share the outcome with you by email.

We typically hold two interview stages per vacancy providing the opportunity to meet two members of the hiring team at each stage. The first stage is typically conducted virtually and the second stage typically in person at the office in which the role would be based. However, we strive to remain flexible depending on the requirements of the role or the candidate.

Our strength lies in our differences.

We are a Disability Confident and top Stonewall employer, a Valuable 500 member, a founding member of the Mindful Business Charter, signatory of the Race at Work Charter and a proud partner of Neurodiversity in Law. We encourage and value different ideas and styles of thinking. It's with different perspectives that we'll find solutions to our clients' most complex challenges. It's how we'll deliver outstanding results today, and tomorrow. We want everybody attending an interview to be comfortable and able to fully demonstrate their experience and talents.