Risk Assistant (Dentons Europe Services)

At Dentons Europe Services in Prague, we embrace a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement. Our team of professionals is dedicated to collaborating seamlessly to provide a wide range of services, including finance, IT, human resources, marketing, and more to support legal teams in managing large volumes of data, ensuring accuracy, and enhancing the overall legal process. 

About the Opportunity

Dentons Europe is looking to recruit a Risk Assistant working within the Firms new business intake function reporting to Risk Management

We look for proactive, flexible individuals who are team players and demonstrate a commitment to superior client service. As a global law firm, it is essential that our candidates have excellent spoken and written English skills in order to communicate fluently and efficiently.

About the role

• The core responsibility will be to manage the Risk Team’s email inbox on a daily basis. This will include administrative tasks, such as updating client and matter records, billing information, handling requests for status updates to the Practice
• Cooperating with other Business Support functions such as finance teams
• Managing and recording information using internal systems and platforms
• Filing, recording of client documentation and updating databases
• Contacting lawyers and assistants for outstanding information
• Inputting and sorting information into Excel
• Conducting background checks on companies
• Responding to routine email inquiries
• Providing general support to management on ad hoc tasks when necessary

Requirements

• Proven ability to work as part of a team.
• Remains calm and works well under pressure; dealing confidently, competently and diplomatically with Partners and legal assistants worldwide.
• Strong communication skills. Able to follow as well as provide clear and unambiguous information or instructions.
• The ability to manage a high volume workload effectively
• Good IT skills
• Experience working in a professional partnership, or in a business services environment.
• Demonstrate an ability to work with minimal supervision at busy times
• Manage time efficiently, delivering work to a consistently high standard and to deadlines
• Excellent standard of spoken and written English.
• Proven experience working with MS Office
• Experience of working in a professional/legal environment
• Proficiency in additional languages desired.

Benefits

• 25 days of vacation/year 

• 3 sick days/year 

• Meal lump-sum 

• MultiSport card 

• Multipass card 

• Home Office allowance