Legal Secretary (Financial Services) - London

Our thriving London office is looking for a Legal Secretary to join the Financial Services Practice Group. We need you to be an organised, professional individual who has a "can do" attitude and is willing to go that extra mile to help colleagues at all times.

Our Firm

Squire Patton Boggs is one of the world’s strongest integrated law firms, committed to providing insight at the point where law, business and government meet. We deliver commercially focused business solutions to a diverse mix of clients, from long-established leading corporations to emerging businesses, start‑up visionaries and sovereign nations.

With over 1,500 lawyers spanning more than 40 offices across four continents, the firm is renowned for its local connections and global influence, delivering comprehensive legal services across North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. In the UK, we have offices in Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and London.

The firm is committed to promoting a collaborative and supportive working environment. Embedded by local champions in each of our UK offices, our well‑regarded family and carer, wellbeing and workplace culture and development programmes provide a variety of flexible working options to support individuals' life journeys, helping our people pursue their personal and professional goals.

Our Team

You will be supporting the Financial Services practice group providing secretarial and administration support. You’ll be reporting into the London office Secretarial Services Manager and will be working alongside Partners and Associates and other Secretaries. Occasionally you may be expected to provide support to other teams as and when required.

Our Opportunity

This role would be ideal for someone who is an experienced legal secretary, preferably in Financial Services/Banking, who has some experience in supporting at partner level and is ready to progress their career. You’ll be involved in heavy and complex billing tasks and reports, to include finalising and sending out bills, client and matter inceptions and understanding KYC requirements. Diary management, event support and dealing with international travel form part of this role.

You must have a positive and professional approach at all times and work efficiently in a very busy team.

You

As this is a varied role, you’ll need to be an organised, proactive individual who can easily prioritise and juggle workloads. You’ll need to have the flexibility to assist other departments when required. You should also be able to use your initiative and spot where help is needed with limited supervision.

You’ll also have experience of complex billing, client inceptions and working in a law firm, preferably with Financial Services/Banking experience. Knowledge of Aderant is preferable. You should demonstrate experience of working with multi‑jurisdictional teams and be familiar with time zones.

As you will be dealing with clients of the firm, a positive, can‑do and proactive attitude is required whilst portraying a professional image towards the client and the firm. Ideally you’ll have good knowledge of all Microsoft packages along with strong keyboard skills.

You will need to have experience of working at secretary/PA level within a professional service firm.

What You Need To Know

Please note that we are an inclusive employer and aim to ensure our workforce is representative of our society. We welcome applications regardless of age, neurodiversity, disability, family or parental status, race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression or other legally protected characteristics. We will make reasonable adjustments and adaptations to our recruitment process to ensure it is inclusive for anyone who wishes to apply.

If you are interested in finding out more about this role, please visit our website in the first instance. We are unable to process applications sent directly by e‑mail. Please complete an online application. No agency CVs accepted at this time.