Our Partner has a desirable position available as they look to make a priority hire within their Residential Property team. The firm are highly commended for their leading property work in the Thames Valley region and London.

From day one you can expect to make an impact on this busy and productive team. Offering a comprehensive service to clients on various residential property matters, dealing directly with clients, and working with a great deal of responsibility within a supportive and collegiate team.

Business development is also an established part of the role, and you can expect to be involved in marketing and networking events. The firm prides itself on their approach of supporting their lawyers' ideas and encourages them to explore new avenues of work and to follow their passions in generating new opportunities.

Overall, this is an excellent position for an individual seeking to 'take the reigns' of their career at a firm that encourages individuality alongside a strong team ethic.

This is an exciting opportunity for a legal professional with a strong background in dispute resolution and construction law to further their career in a supportive and forward-thinking environment.

Job Descriptions:

• Managing both contentious and non-contentious construction projects.
• Demonstrating expertise with major standard form contracts, particularly JCT and NEC, and possess experience in drafting and negotiating bespoke amendments.
• Drafting and reviewing warranties, bonds, guarantees, consultant’s appointments, novations, and reliance letters with precision and attention to detail.
• Handling adjudications and proceedings in the Technology and Construction Court, providing robust representation for clients.
• Some experience in dealing with professional negligence claims against construction professionals is desirable but not essential.

Ideal Candidate:

• Minimum of 2 -3 years PQE in dispute resolution and construction law.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Proven ability to work both independently and as part of a collaborative team.
• Demonstrated ability and willingness to actively participate in business development activities with colleagues.

Please note we are recruiting this role for a leading global Law firm. Please apply if you have good experience and BD executive or  manager in a Law firm or within a professional Services. Excellent salary and hybrid working available for the ideal candidate.

Main Responsibilities

• Support the two core practice groups with ongoing BD profile raising activity on a day-to-day basis
• Support the BD manager and fee-earners in updating relevant brochures for the core practice areas and actively maintain credentials logs. Periodically update new work on the website and ensure partner bio's are kept updated.
• Responsible for managing the effective digital distribution of newsletters, podcasts, social media posts and other marketing content and work closely with the PR, brand and online marketing team to produce and this content
• Management of a number of finance sub-groups, including attending BD meetings to support partners and fee-earners to identify opportunities for new business, generating relevant ideas to build market presence for these groups – this will include the opportunity to contribute and shape BD plans for these groups
• Manage the full proposal lifecycle, which includes being responsible for pitches relevant to the areas above, manage/produce individual capability statements as well as input on pitch presentations
• Manage the Legal 500 and Chambers submission process for agreed practice areas (and additional sector/practice awards) and be responsible for producing high quality submissions
• Work closely with the BD manager(s) to help partners to further develop profitable revenue growth on their key PG client relationships
• Work with the events manager/BD manager to produce and deliver outstanding client events (virtual or otherwise depending on restrictions) but also support the logistics and materials required for the many events we sponsor or host overseas
• Liaise with the communications and PR team on internal news announcements and press releases to support the media plan for the different practice areas
• Work on targeted client research/trends – distilling research reports so they focus on key areas of relevance and suggesting resulting BD opportunities to fee earners
• Liaising with the BD assistant and PA’s on various tasks to help support you in achieving the above

Attributes/Skills Required

You will be of graduate calibre ideally; and with proven BD experience in a law firm, with minimum 2 years previous experience at executive level. Some knowledge of one or both of the practice groups would be desirable, though this is not essential.

Attributes

• Commitment to invest time in getting to know the team/sectors and look at this as an opportunity to really develop over the long term with the PGs and the BD team
• Knowledge of, or clear intellectual ability to learn, relevant industry jargon from related sectors
• Critical thinking, showcasing the ability to plan ahead and ‘join the dots’ across teams and practice groups
• Enthusiastic, proactive, confident, resilient and open to challenge and change
• Well organised and someone who delivers what they promise to a consistently high standard of quality
• A supportive team player able to demonstrate experience of building a collaborative environment
• A skilled verbal and written communicator with the ability to influence senior people in the business and develop relationships
• Innovative and open to new ideas, with the ability to challenge where necessary
• Commercially aware and knowledgeable and able to demonstrate that you consistently add value to business development thinking and activities
• Good desktop publishing skills

A top tier global law firm hiring for a Funds Managing Associate and firm offer top pay up to £200K for the ideal candidate and the firm happy to discuss flexible working and will facilitate it where possible. Please note Investment funds lawyer with experience in private equity fund formation and/or secondaries transactions required to be considered for this position.

Main Responsibilities

• Negotiation of fund and transaction documents and provision of commercially minded legal advice as an integral part of our clients’ deal team.
• Independently drafting and negotiating private equity fund documentation.
• Liaison with clients, specialist lawyers and other service providers in managing transactions
• Developing own internal and external network of contacts.
• Building excellent working relationships with clients and peers within company.
• Attending business development and profile raising events (client seminars, graduate recruitment activities)

Ideal Candidate:

• Investment funds lawyer with experience in fund formation and/or secondaries transactions.
• Ability and desire to work within a fast growing, ambitious and entrepreneurial team.
• Interest in business development and relationship management.
• Cooperative and collaborative in approach and able to develop excellent working relationships at all levels and within all roles.
• Excellent academic and professional qualifications.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £140,000.00-£200,000.00 per year DOE

Please note we are recruiting this role for a leading global Law firm. Please apply if you have good experience and BD executive or manager in a Law firm or within a professional Services. Excellent salary and hybrid working available for the ideal candidate.

Main Responsibilities

• Support the two core practice groups with ongoing BD profile raising activity on a day-to-day basis
• Support the BD manager and fee-earners in updating relevant brochures for the core practice areas and actively maintain credentials logs. Periodically update new work on the website and ensure partner bio's are kept updated.
• Responsible for managing the effective digital distribution of newsletters, podcasts, social media posts and other marketing content and work closely with the PR, brand and online marketing team to produce and this content
• Management of a number of finance sub-groups, including attending BD meetings to support partners and fee-earners to identify opportunities for new business, generating relevant ideas to build market presence for these groups – this will include the opportunity to contribute and shape BD plans for these groups
• Manage the full proposal lifecycle, which includes being responsible for pitches relevant to the areas above, manage/produce individual capability statements as well as input on pitch presentations
• Manage the Legal 500 and Chambers submission process for agreed practice areas (and additional sector/practice awards) and be responsible for producing high quality submissions
• Work closely with the BD manager(s) to help partners to further develop profitable revenue growth on their key PG client relationships
• Work with the events manager/BD manager to produce and deliver outstanding client events (virtual or otherwise depending on restrictions) but also support the logistics and materials required for the many events we sponsor or host overseas
• Liaise with the communications and PR team on internal news announcements and press releases to support the media plan for the different practice areas
• Work on targeted client research/trends – distilling research reports so they focus on key areas of relevance and suggesting resulting BD opportunities to fee earners
• Liaising with the BD assistant and PA’s on various tasks to help support you in achieving the above

Attributes/Skills Required

You will be of graduate calibre ideally; and with proven BD experience in a law firm, with minimum 2 years previous experience at executive level. Some knowledge of one or both of the practice groups would be desirable, though this is not essential.

Attributes

• Commitment to invest time in getting to know the team/sectors and look at this as an opportunity to really develop over the long term with the PGs and the BD team
• Knowledge of, or clear intellectual ability to learn, relevant industry jargon from related sectors
• Critical thinking, showcasing the ability to plan ahead and ‘join the dots’ across teams and practice groups
• Enthusiastic, proactive, confident, resilient and open to challenge and change
• Well organised and someone who delivers what they promise to a consistently high standard of quality
• A supportive team player able to demonstrate experience of building a collaborative environment
• A skilled verbal and written communicator with the ability to influence senior people in the business and develop relationships
• Innovative and open to new ideas, with the ability to challenge where necessary
• Commercially aware and knowledgeable and able to demonstrate that you consistently add value to business development thinking and activities
• Good desktop publishing skills

Please note we are recruiting this role for a top tier global law firm. Excellent salary and hybrid working for the ideal candidate. Professional or Law firm experience highly desirable.

A key member of the Talent Acquisition team, this role will support the wider Recruitment team in the provision of a consistent high level, seamless service to our internal clients. Reporting to one of the TA Advisers, the Assistant will be involved in operational (recruitment, employee cycle, benefits administration) and project work, primarily assigned to client groups which will be a mix of fee earner and business services groups, as well as assisting with queries from international offices. The role will involve working closely with the wider HR, Recruitment, Payroll and benefits, HR systems and L&D teams and other support departments as and when required, as well as providing cover for the other Assistant when necessary.Job Role & Responsibilities

Role: Talent Acquisition Assistant

• Assist with onboarding process.
• Manage applicant tracking system workflow and requisition postings.
• Keep all reports and spreadsheets up to date for the TA team.
• Research and update job descriptions.
• Schedule interviews and meetings on behalf of TA team.
• Provide operational support for DEI programs and initiatives.

Requirements

• Ability to self-prioritize and manage time in a high volume, deadline-driven environment.
• 1+ year of administrative experience, within Recruiting or HR a plus.
• Expertise in Microsoft Office, must have used Outlook in a corporate environment.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.

A top 10 chartered accountancy firm is looking to recruit an experienced ‘Head of Cloud Accounting’ to join their team.

We have a unique opportunity for the right candidate to take the helm of our Cloud Accounting department. With a minimum of 5 years’ experience and the willingness to travel between offices and clients, you will provide our clients with an app advisory service as well as assisting them in transitioning to Cloud Accounting, ensuring those already using such facilities are utilising these systems to their full potential.

The right candidate will have the following skills:

· Good knowledge of software applications linking into cloud solutions.

· Experience of using leading cloud accounting systems.

· Vast experience of managing projects dealing with transition to cloud accounting software.

· Good awareness of technology that may impact our profession.

· Experience of managing a team to deliver projects required by clients.

· Able to find solutions to clients accounting processing and system issues.

· Experience of mapping system process and finding technology solutions to solve issues and improve efficiency.

· Good communication skills and experience of engaging with clients to deliver projects, highlighting the benefits of change.

What we can offer you:

• Competitive salary
• Auto enrolment Pension
• 26 days annual leave + bank holidays (option to buy up to 3 days per year)
• Flexible hours of work – We are on a mission to give you back your time, as with any family, we all work in different ways and need flexibility within our working day and therefore we operate a flexible working policy
• Employee Referral Bonus
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Extensive Learning & Development Opportunities – Continuous development and support not only for your professional qualifications but also for your personal goals and aspirations, so we can grow together.
• Career Coaching – Better never stops. Sharing our time to make the best use of yours.
• Full exposure to a diverse client base.

ue to projected growth, our client seeking a Licensed Insolvency Practitioner to join our highly regarded, talented team and be part of our exciting journey. There are two collaborative Insolvency Practitioners at present in the division and we are looking to bring in a third IP to lead on insolvency appointments and develop the client base as well as contribute to the future growth of this department. This is a key strategic role for the firm.

The role Your core responsibilities will include:

• Taking Insolvency appointments jointly with the Head of Insolvency
• Building and maintaining client/referrer relationships
• Developing and bringing in new business
• Developing relationships with other partners and teams within the practice
• Identifying cross referral opportunities and actively working with other teams to raise awareness
• Actively contributing to setting and delivering the marketing strategy
• Leading initial meetings with prospective clients and referrers to provide advice
• Setting and implementing the initial strategy on a case and working with the team to ensure work is delegated and completed effectively
• Overseeing a portfolio of cases in various size and complexity. The cases will consist of Administrations, Liquidations (CVL, MVL, Compulsories), Voluntary Arrangements, Bankruptcies and consultancy assignments. • Working with the team to ensure cases are progressed effectively and efficiently
• Providing timely and accurate information to the Head of Insolvency and the Board as requested

Your career so far

You will be a JIEB qualified Insolvency Practitioner holding a valid appointment-taking Insolvency Licence with a proven track record of securing work referrals and able to demonstrate a good knowledge of all forms of formal insolvency procedure and legislation. You will also need to be an ACCA qualified accountant with previous experience in a similar role in either an insolvency or accountancy firm.

What we can offer you

• Competitive salary and benefits package including bonus arrangement, pension, life assurance, health cash plan and a retail discount scheme. We also offer an increasing number of green benefits including cycle to work and electric cars salary sacrifice schemes.
• flexible working
• Exposure to a broad range of clients across many industry sectors such as retail, hospitality, manufacturing, healthcare and property. These will include sole traders, partnerships, limited companies and groups.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: Up to £130,000.00 per year

This role offer flexible working your hours on different days to suit your lifestyle.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide full assistance at a senior level to our Managing Partner and other Partners of the practice on a diverse portfolio of CF clients including lead advisory projects, including acquisitions, disposals, management buy outs, finance raising and other transactions
• Project lead transactions and assist with overseas transaction support work
• Produce business plans and assist the team with business valuations and due diligence
• Continuously develop your CF technical knowledge through on the job training, external training and mentoring
• Assist with potential new client meetings, helping to bring them onboard
• Input to competitive bid proposals, formal presentations and client quotes
• Contribute to the growth of the CF division by identifying internal referral opportunities and networking externally
• Manage workflow for the CF division

What we can offer you

• Exposure to a broad range of clients across many industry sectors
• Partner level mentor and a tailored career progression plan
• Immediate entry to our Management Development Programme
• Competitive salary and benefits package including pension, life assurance, health cash plan, retail discount scheme, hybrid and flexible working
• Generous core holiday allowance plus holiday trading, flexible bank holidays and additional holiday with service
• Wellbeing programme with regular events and activities focused on your physical and mental wellbeing
• Comprehensive induction to help you get up to speed

About You

• ACCA / ACA qualified
• Practice background with at least 2 years post qualification corporate finance experience
• Strong self-starter
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and client management skills

A top Chartered Accountancy firm looking to recruit a Tax Manager who is seeking that next step in their career. This is a mixed tax role and will be of both a compliance and advisory nature.

We are looking for ambitious and commercially driven candidates who are keen to progress. Consideration will be given to candidates who are from personal, or mixed tax backgrounds.

You will have the opportunity to become an integral part of a dynamic, growing tax department, and regional firm.

• Management of a portfolio of both personal and corporate clients
• Management of ATED, ERS and P11Ds.
• Supervision of three staff members. This will include regular appraisals and development of those staff, their study progress and a review of their work undertaken.
• Working closely with the accounts staff and partners within the office to provide high level client service.
• Working collaboratively with the other tax managers across the all offices to improve compliance processes and workflows within the tax team.

Supporting the tax partners and managers with project work. This will include working with other staff and partners across all offices.

• Constant and effective liaison with all stakeholders.
• Building and maintaining key relationships both internally and externally. This will be with clients and our professional connections.
• Management of WIP, billing and debtors for your allocated portfolio
• Work across all four offices to provide advisory support.

If you have strong technical knowledge, attention to detail, excellent communication skills, a professional approach to clients and colleagues, and a firm commitment to providing high quality client service we want to hear from you.

We are currently looking for an experienced Case Administrator or Senior Case Administrator in the Business Recovery department.

This is a key position based out of the London office and forms part of the wider Transaction Services we offer our clients. Client offer market leading salary, hybrid flexible working and great bonus and benefits for the ideal candidate.

Key Responsibilities:

The role of an Administrator involves being responsible for a portfolio of personal and corporate insolvencies. The Administrator provides a high-quality service to clients, ensuring all statutory responsibilities are fulfilled alongside the Insolvency Practitioner’s duties to maximise realisations for the benefit of creditors.

• Using a number of different sources to gain key information and an understanding of each specific case.
• Communicating with stakeholders including bankrupts, directors, shareholders, creditors and employees.
• Preparing statutory reports and ensuring cases are closed efficiently.
• Taking responsibility for a portfolio of cases with appropriate management
• Collaborating with others, including providing support and assistance to other team members when required; and
• Assisting in decision making by having relevant data to hand
• Carrying out investigations within insolvency assignments where appropriate.

The Person:

• Proven insolvency practice experience in a similar role is required
• Qualified through experience and/or qualified as CPI/ AAT/ ACCA/ ACA
• Educated to degree level, or equivalent, or QBE
• Proven experience of working in a fast paced environment and ability to deliver to strict deadlines.
• Computer literate (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint applications)
• Good verbal and written communication
• Being proficient with IPS software is an advantage
• Highly organised with exceptional attention to detail, the ability to multitask and prioritise effectively to meet statutory and internal deadlines
• Able to draw logical and sensible conclusions from data presented, applies knowledge effectively from experience and can relate it to other matters
• Able to suggest solutions and make recommendations
• An ability to understand technical issues

As a Tax Manager, you will have the opportunity to become an integral part of a forward thinking and dynamic tax department. Reporting to the Senior Tax Manager, the role is mixed tax but with a corporate tax bias and will be compliance driven. However, the opportunity is there to get involved in some interesting advisory work for a varied portfolio of owner managed businesses and high net worth individuals. We are looking for commercially driven self-starters who are keen to progress quickly.

Responsibilities will include:

• Management of a large portfolio of corporate tax clients. This will involve managing the whole compliance cycle from preparation of corporation tax returns through to submission to HMRC and advising on corporation tax payments due including quarterly instalment payers
• Management of the annual filing processes for ATED, ERS, P11Ds, Country by Country Reporting (“CbCR”).
• Assist with reviewing the more complex personal tax returns during the Self-Assessment season
• Supervising and mentoring more junior members of staff as required
• Assist with the internal tax training of both the Accounts and Tax team
• Working collegiately with Tax Managers across the four LB Group offices to improve compliance processes and workflows within the tax team
• Supporting the Senior Tax Manager in the Stratford office and the wider tax teams with ad hoc advisory work
• Building and maintaining key relationships with clients and other professional third parties
• Management of WIP, billing and debtors

The Ideal candidate :

• ATT qualification or working towards CTA at AM level, ideally CTA qualified but not essential
• Strong tax technical and tax administration knowledge
• Proven track record of managing a varied corporate tax portfolio
• The ability to work autonomously
• The ability to review other people’s work and appraise more junior staff

We are currently looking for an experienced Case Administrator or Senior Case Administrator in the Business Recovery department. This is a key position based out of the London office and forms part of the wider Transaction Services we offer our clients. Client offer market leading salary, hybrid flexible working and great bonus and benefits for the ideal candidate.

Key Responsibilities:

The role of an Administrator involves being responsible for a portfolio of personal and corporate insolvencies. The Administrator provides a high-quality service to clients, ensuring all statutory responsibilities are fulfilled alongside the Insolvency Practitioner’s duties to maximise realisations for the benefit of creditors.

• Using a number of different sources to gain key information and an understanding of each specific case.
• Communicating with stakeholders including bankrupts, directors, shareholders, creditors and employees.
• Preparing statutory reports and ensuring cases are closed efficiently.
• Taking responsibility for a portfolio of cases with appropriate management
• Collaborating with others, including providing support and assistance to other team members when required; and
• Assisting in decision making by having relevant data to hand
• Carrying out investigations within insolvency assignments where appropriate.

The Person:

• Proven insolvency practice experience in a similar role is required
• Qualified through experience and/or qualified as CPI/ AAT/ ACCA/ ACA
• Educated to degree level, or equivalent, or QBE
• Proven experience of working in a fast paced environment and ability to deliver to strict deadlines.
• Computer literate (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint applications)
• Good verbal and written communication
• Being proficient with IPS software is an advantage
• Highly organised with exceptional attention to detail, the ability to multitask and prioritise effectively to meet statutory and internal deadlines
• Able to draw logical and sensible conclusions from data presented, applies knowledge effectively from experience and can relate it to other matters
• Able to suggest solutions and make recommendations
• An ability to understand technical issues

We are currently looking for an experienced Senior Commercial Lawyer/Solicitor to join our fast paced but friendly Commercial & Technology Team .

Description:

• Commercial contracts, frequently with an international aspect
• Technology contracts (including SaaS agreements, website and app development and hosting agreements)
• Digital media and Ecommerce
• Marketing, advertising and sponsorship
• Data Protection
• Data licensing and commercialisation
• Intellectual property management, commercialisation, protection and enforcement

Experience/ Attributes required

• Excellent training and knowledge of a broad range of commercial issues, including contract law, data protection, intellectual property and competition law;
• Significant drafting experience;
• Experience advising on contractual risk and negotiating contracts with the aim of achieving commercial solutions for clients;
• An interest and experience in digital media, data and technology
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to provide clear & concise advice in plain English and to articulate complex legal concepts in a comprehensible manner for lay business people.
• Excellent skills in legal analysis with the aptitude to apply them to commercial reality and to deliver pragmatic advice;

The successful candidate must have broad range of litigation experience, with an emphasis on commercial litigation and financial services disputes. Experience of regulatory investigations and related litigation will also be sought.

Commercial and Financial Services Litigation

You will have a broad experience of disputes across all areas of business, working for both private and commercial clients. In particular, you will have experience of both contractual and tortious claims, and ideally have an interest in and experience of the financial markets.

Key Skills:-

• Flexibility – you are able to respond to new challenges and get up to speed very quickly with new factual scenarios. The great thing about this role is its breadth, you are never bored.
• Strong Research Ability – able to identify and advise on the legal position in the first instance, able to analyse complex legal and factual scenarios.
• Experience of preparing first drafts of substantive documents, such as Letters Before Action, Witness Statements, Precedent Hs etc.
• Experience of court procedure, particularly in the Commercial Court.
• Experience of drafting letters and emails to both the client and the other side.
• The role will include taking an active part in marketing and business development

The Individual

• Will possess 3-4 years’ PQE.
• Strong academics.
• High quality training and experience.
• You will be ambitious, technically strong, hard working, and a good team player.
• You will be confident and sociable as well as discrete when dealing directly with clients.

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Personal skills

• Self motivated
• Strong communication skills
• Team player
• Ability to be proactive and reactive in addressing clients’ affairs and requirements
• Ability to help build upon the firm’s existing business
• Ability to get on well with the clients who cover a broad spectrum
• Achieve minimum time targets and billing requirements
• Ability to keep abreast with changes in legislation and market developments
• A practical working knowledge of IT
• Flexibility, dedication and ambition are essential attributes.