Fiona Faure Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Dual role of Secretarial Team Leader for the Corporate Department as well as Personal Assistant to the London Managing Partner. My Team Leader responsibilities focus on the People Management and HR aspect of this role. This entails Performance Management Reviews Team Rotas, monthly one to one meetings, recruitment, dealing with flexible applications, dealing with lateness and absence for the secretarial Hub. Attending London and UK Team Leader meetings. In addition, it entails dealing with the admin relating to leavers and new joiners, allocating desks, allocating points of contact, arranging team meetings, updating email distribution lists and desktop admin updates in respect of the Corporate Department (approximately 100 persons). In addition, I monitor and oversee my colleague in deputising the day to day work flow and management of the Secretarial Corporate Hub consisting of 14 secretaries and cover this role in her absence. I continue to support the London Managing Partner in my role as Personal Assistant as set out below.

London, United Kingdom

Supporting the London Managing Partner/Location Head and London Head of Operations. Acting as an ambassador for the London office. Supporting the London Managing Partner's work schedule and close connections. Email, diary and extensive meeting management. Proactively managing the London Managing Partners inbox, commitments and diary. Organising and co-ordinating internal and external meetings, setting up Zoom calls and Microsoft Team calls and organising various activities and events and supporting various departments such as Marketing, Events and HR with ad hoc firm wide projects. Proactively anticipating logistical and practical arrangements and solutions. Ensuring all requirements for travel, accommodation and facilities are met, including preparing itineraries of travel information and business commitments including a high level of liaison with other offices. Taking responsibility for international visit co-ordination. Arranging lunches, dinner and other events including reviewing menus, menu planning and negotiation on venue costs where appropriate. Acting as a conduit for information flow, exercising judgement and discretion, ensuring key messages and details are communicated whilst maintaining the integrity of sensitive information. Building and maintaining good relationships across the firm's network and acting as a gateway for information for colleagues. Proactively assisting key stakeholders around the business with all queries and requests. Liaising and communicating with the London Managing Partner's key contacts across the business. Undertaking responsibility for all secretarial and administration needs of the London Managing Partner and proactively engaging with and assisting the wider team regarding work requirements and support.

London, United Kingdom

I worked as a Senior Legal Secretary in the Energy Infrastructure and Projects Team to provide a full secretarial and admin service as part of a collaborative secretarial team to the Finance and Projects Group. My role was to provide fee earners with effective and high quality secretarial support that appropriately meets their requirements, enabling them to focus on providing legal services to clients. I assisted fee earners in maximising the amount of time they are able to spend fee earning, undertaking business development activities by assisting in the management of a fee earner's day to day workload. I supported solicitors at all levels including Management, Partners, Senior and Junior Associates and Trainees.My duties included: Managing complex diaries, prioritising requests, arranging meetings and conference calls across multiple time zones and ensuring solicitors are made aware of their schedules and appointmentsOrganising extensive international travel, including flights, accommodation, rail tickets, airport transfers, visas, currency, maps and preparing full itineraries and any useful informationScreening and managing telephone calls, post and emails which include electronic filing of same. I monitor mailboxes on a daily basis and proactively deal with queries, responding to emails where necessary Managing the timely reimbursement of expenses to solicitors and third party invoices using the Concur Online System. Expenses are often in different currencies and on different budgets requiring attention to detail. Billing includes being fully conversant with client’s engagement terms and billing requirements including charge out rates, ebilling, PO Numbers and payment terms, milestones and currencies using the Elite System. Keeping solicitors informed of charge out rate changes and how they impact on relevant clients and matters. Follow up tasks include resolving any billing queries and also credit control

London, United Kingdom

I carried out two temporary assignments (Dentons and Denton, Wilde Sapte) whilst seeking permanent employment once I relocated to the UK from South Africa

Durban Area, South Africa

Attending to completion of property registrations and arranging finances relating to completion.

Durban Area, South Africa

Audio typing and related Court litigation in respect of motor vehicle accident claims including preparation of court documentation for trial and liaising with Counsel

Vryheid Area, South Africa

Head of Collections Department:Drafting own correspondence and court noticesConveyancing Secretary/Paralegal:Drafting and typing property transfer documents in a second language. Consulting with client and dealing with finances.

Newcastle Area, South Africa

General secretarial duties. Specialised in property foreclosures by bank institutions

Pietermaritzburg Area, South Africa

Held three roles simultaneously:Paralegal to Managing Director:Drafting own correspondence and documents, consulting with clients and taking instructions for Managing Director; general secretarial duties.Head of Conveyancing Department (Barclays Bank Mortgages):Drafting and typing standard property transfer documents; attending on clients with regard to signature of transfer/mortgage documents; calculating final accounts and dealing with finances; team leader to three conveyancing typists; organising and attending Christmas functions with client banks.Computer Supervisor:Was in charge of 20 stand alone computers (MS Dos); liaising with computer programme suppliers both with regard to hardware and software; installed a network.

Pietermaritzburg Area, South Africa

Audio typing of agreements and drafting and typing of Road Transportation Board Applications for Road Carrier Permits