Legal Support Assistant – Islamic Finance

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join our Islamic Finance team in Bristol on a permanent basis as a Legal Support Assistant. 

The team provides plays an active role in developing the market for Islamic finance, working with financial institutions to deliver and implement Islamic retail products and with investors on innovative investment structures. Over the years, our team have helped hundreds of Islamic financial institutions and investors do business in the UK.

In this role you would play a key role supporting Lawyers across both our Islamic Finance team with quality administrative and support services to enable the efficient delivery of the team operational strategy. This is an exciting and rapidly growing area of our firm, and you can expect lots of opportunity to develop your skill set and to be involved in some interesting and challenging work. This is a great opportunity for someone with excellent administration skills who is looking to progress their career.

What you’ll do:

• Diary management: organise travel, meetings and ensure events are fully supported within the Group.
• Manage and take calls on behalf of Lawyers.
• Assist Lawyers with managing monthly billing procedures, cash collection, expenses and credit control processes.
• Deal with file opening and accompanying maintenance procedures: production of terms of business letters, confirmation of instruction letters, ID checks etc.
• Deal with all file management tasks to ensure full compliance with Foot Anstey practices and procedures to include: Lexcel, Code of Conduct, and anti-Money Laundering.
• Assist with administrative tasks relating to business development including client research, building marketing lists, co-ordinating external invitations to business development activities, preparing resources to take to client meetings and tracking team business development activity.

What we’re looking for

• An ability to support Lawyers and the wider team through proactive interaction and understanding of their support needs
• An ability to interact with clients, building positive relationships.
• Confident prioritisation skills and attention to detail to complete assigned tasks as required.
• Excellent organisational skills and the ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
• Excellent IT skills across the MS suite of programmes along with a willingness to learn new IT / Tech packages.

Pre-employment screening

Successful applicants will be required to complete a pre-employment screening process which includes a financial integrity check and a DBS check. If you wish to discuss any issues or questions in connection with this, please do speak in confidence with a member of the Talent Acquisition Team at [email protected]

Eligibility to work in the UK

Eligibility to work in the UK will be verified in the final stages of the selection process. All candidates must be able to prove their right to work in the UK, which may include meeting the Home Office criteria for Visa sponsorship. Candidates who require sponsorship should evaluate the Home Office eligibility criteria for a Skilled Worker visa before applying and keep up to date with any legal developments.

Our offer to you

In return for your efforts, you can expect considerable scope for personal as well as professional development. We encourage people to engage with our popular and well supported coaching and mentoring programmes, which connect you to people right across the firm and at every level. We create space for mental and physical wellbeing with our weekly Lifestyle Hour, 28 days annual leave, a day off for your birthday, and a sabbatical you can take every 5 years. You can also buy holiday and manage your benefits flexibly using our sophisticated portal to configure your total reward offer according to what you value most. As part of this, you can make ongoing or one-off donations to our charitable foundation and access our CSR programme where you can engage with community-based initiatives (as a team, or individually) twice a year, to give something back where you feel it matters.

Why Foot Anstey?

As one of the UK’s fastest growing law firms, Foot Anstey believes in helping our clients and people achieve their ambitions, unlocking new and exciting opportunities. Our team of business and legal advisors are motivated by understanding clients’ goals and collaborating with them and other advisers to deliver solutions. By becoming our clients’ most trusted advisor, we are enabling them to achieve their ambitions. How we do it is just as important as what we do. Our values define the way we act with our clients and one another every day, and because of these we think our culture and environment sets us apart.