Legal Support Manager - #1707557

We are currently recruiting for a Legal Support Manager to join our Corporate team!

You will oversee the operation and legal administration within the function, ensuring that colleague and client receive exemplary service and experience.

What we need from you

• Experience working with the relevant IT systems, i.e., Outlook, Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, etc.
• Knowledge of law and the core processes of how law firms operate, i.e., financial reporting and utilisation targets
• Excellent written and communication skills are required.
• Experience in delivering strong legal and administrative support to large teams.
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  What you'll be doing

•Understand the financial metrics of your department to enable you to support your Head of Department with financial performance, including financial reporting/monthly billing, proactive WIP management and monitoring/chasing outstanding billing.

•Provide fee earners with KPI analysis, enabling fee earners to optimize performance and achieve objectives and targets.

•Support the department with operational efficiencies and administrative tasks.

•Assist with onboarding and offboarding of colleagues in the department.

Benefits

Our successful candidate will have an incredible opportunity to develop a rewarding and successful career with an award-winning law firm in a flexible and agile working environment.

We provide a competitive salary and benefits package, including 25 days’ holiday (increasing to 32 days through our loyalty recognition programme) plus the option to purchase an extra five days each year.

We also offer a pension scheme, private medical insurance, life assurance and income protection insurance, as well as plenty of opportunities to get involved in our colleague committees to make a real impact in the local community.

About Brabners

Brabners is purpose-led independent law firm. A certified B Corp with award-winning environmental credentials, we seek to demonstrate that business can bring about positive change by being innovative, diverse and sustainable.

With over 200 years of history, we’re proudly anchored in the North but serve businesses and individuals across England and Wales.

We have won awards for being innovative at the Legal 500 Northern Powerhouse Awards and diverse as Manchester Law Society’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Champions. We are also recognised as one of the 25 best large companies to work for in the UK and have won The Legal 500 Future Lawyers awards for job satisfaction, quality of work, social life and work/life balance.

We have a number of colleague-led affinity groups including for LGBTQ+, REACH, physical and mental health and social mobility, as well as a sustainability, environmental and green group.

It’s all part of how we make the difference.