Senior Legal Secretary

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Bouygues Construction Australia Pty Ltd (BYCA) is a construction and civil engineering company dedicated to providing world-class services in building, civil engineering, earthworks and mining services.
  
As a global firm, our Australian head office in North Sydney deals with staff, various associated companies and contacts all over the world.
  
Working closely with the Legal Team, you will provide high level support and assist in developing the Legal function at BYCA. This is a great opportunity for a hands-on Legal professional to develop a career within a high profile international group.
  
Key responsibilities will include:

• Prepare first draft of corporate forms and simple legal documents such as NDAs, settlement agreements based on precedents, board resolutions and POAs, PCG applications
• Contract amendments according to negotiation tracking sheets
• Some printing, copying and filing (including production of A5 bibles of documents and paginating bundles)
• Manage a range of reporting requirements, producing draft reports for settlement
• Administrative support – some travel and international and local diary management, expenses and completion/submission of legal team’s timesheets
• Establish contract management and filing system for head contracts and other client facing and related documents (including POAs and PCGs)
• Assisting with renewal of practising certificates with The Law Society of NSW
• Organising international teleconferences, visio conferences and meetings

To be considered for this role you will demonstrate:

• Experience in a fast paced environment, ability to multitask with good humour
• resilience and tenacity
• Impeccable manners, suitable demeanour for regularly dealing with senior executives
• “can do” attitude with positive outlook
• Eye for detail and methodical, process driven approach to complex tasks
• Strong problem-solving tendencies and initiative
• Significant experience administering document filing systems, ideally experience establishing and implementing one
• Familiarity with a range of contracts
• Advanced skills in Word including formatting, automatic numbering, cross referencing etc
• PPT capabilities, to support management presentations
• excel capabilities for reporting purposes

Although the ideal candidate would have 10 years previous experience in legal administrative support, preferably in a corporate environment.

We are looking for someone with an open, flexible and professional attitude to work, enthusiastic about a career in Legal.
  
You must have the legal right to live and work in Australia to apply for this role.