General Counsel Workflow Coordinator, Core Business Services - Sydney

Job description

Join our Core Business Services (CBS) team and you will help support the important business enablement functions that keep our organisation running strong. As a CBS professional, you will work across teams to provide the knowledge, resources and tools that help EY deliver exceptional quality service to our clients, win in the marketplace and support EY’s growth and profitability. Major teams within CBS include Finance, Information Technology, Human Resources, Enterprise Support Services, Brand Marketing and Communications, Business Development, Knowledge and Risk Management.

Join our Legal team and you will help provide legal advice to mitigate our business risk as we achieve our commercial goals in a complex environment.

With so many offerings, you have the opportunity to develop your career through a broad scope of engagements, mentoring and formal learning. That’s how we develop outstanding leaders who team to deliver on our promises to all of our stakeholders, and in so doing, play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, for our clients and for our communities. Sound interesting? Well this is just the beginning. Because whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime.

About the opportunity

 
In your role as a GCO Workflow Coordinator you’ll be responsible for:

·  Overall management of the administration of GCO Assist portal
·  Reviewing and considering emails and attachments
·  Referring queries to appropriate legal counsel, answering queries directly, referring query to other appropriate EY personnel (eg, RM) or referring person to relevant policy or EY resource
·  Checking file management system to ensure query has not already been received or similar query not already being worked on
·  Maintaining database of allocations and ensuring it is kept current
·  Electronic filing all GCO Assist correspondence into GCO Document Management system.
·  Corresponding with clients/legal counsels via email to enable tasks to be actioned
·  Assisting with any other queries received by internal clients and allocating to the relevant legal counsels
·  Conducting client searches in response to document production requests
·  Supporting the GCO Team to ensure that the team’s internal processes run smoothly including liaison with document management system vendor and EY IT team
·  Record keeping and administrative support for Company Secretary, Business Names and Trade mark filings
·  Upkeep of the lease register and the crisis management folder – scanning and saving into GCO Document Management system
·  Upkeep Deed of Releases in Deed Safe - scanning and saving into GCO Document Management system
·  Ensuring documents are filed correctly, conducting periodic reviews and archiving of documents
·  Co-ordinate GCO Legal Community Site- Refresh webpages annually maintain and update GCO webpages – following up with legal counsels assigned to the relevant webpages for amendments and uploading pages onto SharePoint
·  Preparing monthly rosters for On-Duty Solicitor
·  Set up GCO training for new joiners and on boarding into GCO Document Management system for all new starters
·  Recording and keeping new Partner Joining Deeds in the Deed safe
·  Helping to manage offshore services provider
·  Ensuring critical documents are saved into EY’s Crisis Management system
·  Participate in GCO team meetings and contribute to the team strategy and business plan
·  Other tasks related to the GCO Assist portal from time to time

About you

We’re looking for people with the following experience:
·  Tertiary qualifications and/or at least 3 years’ experience in high level administrative role
·  Experience in a professional services environment is highly regarded
·  Experience in a legal environment is preferred
·  Completion of Business Administration course advantageous
·  Strong communication skills including telephone manner and interpersonal skills
·  Excellent attention to detail
·  Excellent time management and prioritisation skills essential
·  Demonstrates initiative and willingness to learn
·  Ability to work proactively and independent of others advantageous
·  Flexible and proactive team player
·  Strict confidentiality and discretion
·  Strong written English skills


What working at EY offers

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and the value you bring. Our Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working, career development, and an extensive range of wellbeing and benefit offerings. We are happy to consider formal and informal flexible working arrangement.  To find out how some of our people are using these arrangements to help them achieve a lifestyle balance, pleaseclick here . 
 
Who we are
EY is an inclusive and equal opportunity employer offering a vast range of internal networks including Unity, our LGBTI network and our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander network.  These provide our people with the opportunity to connect across offices and allow us all to embrace and value the diverse society we live within.  We are committed to making reasonable adjustments to provide a positive, barrier-free recruitment process and supportive work environment. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of application. 

About EY

As a global leader inassurance ,tax ,transaction andadvisory services , we’re using the finance products, knowledge and systems we’ve developed to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better.   Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime.

Join us in building a better working world. 
 
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