Onboarding (Coordinator Apprentice)

Onboarding Coordinator Apprentice

Location: Leeds or Manchester

Great rewards + benefits + early careers pathways

There are many alternative career pathways within a major international law firm like Addleshaw Goddard. You don't need to be a lawyer to be a leader in this supportive and inclusive professional environment. Just be yourself. And start by being a totally unique Onboarding Coordinator Apprentice.

About Addleshaw Goddard

As a premium law firm working for many thousands of leading organisations in over 100 countries, we don't deal in typical problems, typical solutions, or typical careers. Our business is about finding the smartest route to the biggest impact, for our clients, our colleagues, and the communities we serve. That means bringing great minds together and helping individuals to be the best they can be.

The many awards, nominations, and top rankings we are proud to have received in recent years include accolades for training, peer support, innovation, gender equality, culture and diversity.

About the Role

This role sits within the Onboarding function, who are responsible for conducting legal and regulatory compliance relating to the onboarding of new clients and matters.

Joining our two-year programme as an Onboarding Coordinator Apprentice you will gain hands on experience in an extremely varied role, encompassing a wide range of administrative tasks. You will work across the Conflicts, Financial Crime & Sanctions, and Internal Audit functions of BAU, to ensure the effective and efficient management of workflow. You will be responsible for collating management information and suggesting enhancements to systems and procedure to ensure service level agreements are maintained or exceeded. You will also work towards completing the Business Administration Level 3 apprenticeship with BPP as part of the programme. 

Upon completion of the programme, you'll have the opportunity to progress within the team and continue building your career with us (subject to vacancies).

What we are looking for

There is no such thing as a ‘typical' Addleshaw Goddard candidate. As a firm, we have always been shaped by different ways of looking at the world. We know our success depends on giving opportunities to people from the widest range of backgrounds, locations and perspectives.

Of course, there are some attributes we would like you to bring to this role (listed below). However, your personality and individuality matter just as much – we want you to be yourself and we will do our best to build your skillset.

• A desire to develop and progress within an administrative role.
• Ability to get on well with a broad range of people and stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to use different approaches depending on the audience and the context.
• High level of attention to detail with significant emphasis on quality of work.
• Ability to be resilient and successfully manage multiple competing workstreams.
• Strong organisational and communication skills.
• Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office.
• Minimum 5 GCSEs, including English and Maths at Grade C or above.

The following list, whilst not exhaustive, gives a flavour of what you can expect if you are to be successful:

• Manage all requests received by BAU to ensure appropriate allocation based on skill levels & capacity within BAU teams.
• Liaise with the Fee Earning and PA teams, to resolve administrative queries and ascertain further information to assist with progressing BAU requests.
• Monitor service levels and allocate work accordingly across all office jurisdictions to ensure that urgent requests are prioritised, working hours considered and multiple demands of the Firm are met.
• Collate management and statistical information in relation to the number of requests received and provide periodic reports to management.
• Provide daily status updates at the end of each working day.
• Create and maintain information barriers.
• Deal with high-level compliance related queries with supervision.

What you can expect

With Addleshaw Goddard, you can expect a supportive team culture, a flexible, friendly and state-of-the-art working environment, and an attractive salary and benefits package.

For the role of Onboarding Coordinator Apprentice, we will reward you with a starting salary of £21,500 a year, with the potential for salary increments in your second year.

Core benefits include Life Assurance, Income Protection, Pension and Bonus schemes, with additional Health & Wellbeing benefits and services, plus many voluntary Lifestyle benefits, ranging from a cycle to work scheme, gym allowance and Give As You Earn scheme to season ticket travel loans and railcards.

Our early careers pathways are based on delivering the right training and development opportunities for you as an individual. Our dedicated early careers team is on hand with advice and assistance.

We are an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of a person's sex, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, background or any other protected characteristic. We are committed to having a diverse team and actively encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds and communities.