Conveyancer in Cheltenham

Our Real Estate Finance team is currently our most rapidly growing team, which makes this opportunity ideal for an ambitious and committed individual who loves the cut and thrust of being surrounded by a busy and commercially astute team. The team covers every aspect of a real estate deal, advising lenders and borrowers on loans related to property sales and acquisitions, and they help to finance property development and refinance existing debt. The team works across multiple sectors and with all kinds of lenders, including mainstream banks, bridging loan companies, challenger banks, peer-to-peer lenders, and individual borrowers.

The Conveyancing Executive role would include:

• Managing files and undertaking routine legal tasks with minimal supervision.
• Undertaking and overseeing processes for routine file management including file opening and billing.
• Undertaking legal work, including raising initial enquiries, chasing responses, reviewing and raising further enquiries as necessary.
• Drafting (and negotiating where appropriate) documents using appropriate precedents and templates.
• Supervision of junior team members.
• Being proactive and ensuring clients and agents have regular updates and expectations managed.
• Undertaking legal research, using appropriate methods and sourcing, presenting the results in an accurate and timely manner.
• Preparing contract reports, exchange of contracts and completion.
• Supporting the team with marketing events and actively participating in business development activity.
• Preparing completion statements.
• Ensuring all work complies with risk management policies and procedures, in line with GDPR.

This role would be based in our Cheltenham office.

As Conveyancing Executive you will need to have:

• Experience within conveyancing and/or commercial property.
• Exposure to real estate finance work would be highly desirable, this could be while working in a broader real estate role.
• The ability to work collaboratively with colleagues and professionally engage with clients.
• The ability to supervise junior team members, facilitating their development and providing day-to-day support to the wider team.
• The ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Excellent technical ability and drafting skills.
• Strong commercial acumen.
• Proactive, ambitious and organised with a keen eye for detail.
• Resilience and the ability to complete tasks against tight deadlines.

Benefits of working with us as a Conveyancing Executive:

• Scottish Widows Pension Scheme
• Support staff bonus scheme
• Electric vehicle scheme
• 28 days annual leave (plus public holidays)
• Happy People / Perks at Work benefits portal
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Life Assurance
• 1/3 gym membership contribution
• Flu vaccinations
• Healthcare cash plan

HCR suits people who love a challenge and want to work in an environment where careers thrive on the back of hard work and personal merit. Our people enjoy feeling part of something bigger than themselves, and whilst our clients drive our development, it is our people who bring their energy, enthusiasm, and entrepreneurial mindsets together to solve problems and help our clients succeed.

As a Times Best Law firm, among the UK Top 60, we provide the full range of services that you would expect to organisations, business leaders and individuals. However, in our mission to give everyone the opportunity to experience a different kind of legal service we take an entrepreneurial approach. We’re flexible and responsive to the needs of our clients, delivering the best outcomes for them.

As HCR is an equal opportunities employer, we don’t just accept differences, we celebrate them. We want to attract a diverse and ambitious workforce that reflects all backgrounds and skills to create a workplace that is supportive and inclusive, recognises and nurtures talent, and which works together to achieve the best outcome for our clients.

If this opportunity sounds of interest to you, please make an application and submit your CV.