Document Specialist

Our central document production team have an exciting opportunity for a Document Specialist to join them at our Bristol or Edinburgh office on a permanent basis. This role is to provide consistent, high-quality, professional document support to legal teams and business services departments. 

You will be joining a small team of professionals who work collaboratively with each other and all departments across the business.

Key responsibilities:

• Document production (creating, formatting and amending) across all the Firm's systems and Microsoft Office packages.
• House-style large and complex legal documents and reports in MS Word, identifying and correcting style and cross-referencing issues.
• Confident in repairing document issues and helping users with technical queries
• Producing PowerPoint presentations using the firm's branded templates.
• Assist in the creation of pitch documents, team sheets and organograms using the Firm's branded templates
• Work closely with the Design Team to ensure documents produced are on brand.
• Work with PDF software to combine, manipulate, convert and amend PDF documents
• Keeping stakeholders up to datewith progress of tasks and managing expectations 

You must be reliable and organised with an ability to trouble-shoot and work under pressure at times with a 'can do' outlook.  This is a busy role which demands close attention to detail and an ability to prioritise tasks and manage expectations with clients.

What we're looking for:

We are looking for an experienced Document Specialist who has advanced knowledge of key software packages such as Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Excel, Visio and PDF applications such as Adobe Pro.

You'll also have:

• Previous experience of working with complex documents
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Outstanding organisational skills and the ability to be flexible to manage workload and prioritise effectively 
• Be a great team player but have the ability to work on your own
• Ability to problem solve with a methodological and logical approach

About Burges Salmon

Our six core values – Ambition, Collaboration, Commitment, Fairness, Quality and Respect - are at the heart of everything we do and help to shape our unique culture. As well as high quality work and exciting development opportunities, we offer our people a professional, friendly and sociable working environment with a real sense of community.

A full overview of all the benefits of working at Burges Salmon can be found on the ‘working at Burges Salmon' section of our careers page.

We are pleased to have been named RollOnFriday's ‘Best Law Firm to Work At', for the fourth year in a row and one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2023 (previously named ‘The Times Top 50 Employers for Women'), for the third year running. Our commitment to excellence has recently been recognised by the IIP, which awarded us Platinum certification for investment in people.

It's important to us that our organisation represents the diverse community in which we operate and we encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and identities. As a Disability Confident Leader, we will provide a fully accessible recruitment process and offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job. We're committed to finding the right person for this role and are open to discussing flexible working, full time or part time working patterns.

If you have any questions regarding the role or the interview process, please contact Katarina Athanasakos (Resourcing Specialist) - [email protected].

This advert will close as soon as we receive sufficient applications so please apply as soon as you can to be considered.

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