Career opportunities: Trainee PA

The opportunity for you

We’re looking for a Trainee PA to play a key role in supporting a busy, high‑performing team across a wide range of core functions. This is an opportunity to develop hands-on experience in client and matter administration, document management, diary coordination, business development activity, and finance support. You’ll bring strong organisational skills, excellent communication, and a proactive, detail‑driven mindset, helping to keep workflows running smoothly and spotting issues before they arise. If you’re reliable, collaborative, and ready to build a career in a fast-paced professional environment, this role puts you at the centre of day‑to‑day operations that make a real impact.

Key responsibilities

• Provide administrative support across client/matter management, document handling, diary coordination, business development, and finance tasks.


• Complete expense forms accurately and manage billing processes from pre-bills to final bills.


• Process disbursements and prepare internal client money transfers.


• Set up documents for electronic signature via DocuSign.


• Deliver general administrative assistance to fee earners as required.


• Demonstrate strong communication, organisation, and teamwork skills across all tasks.

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Prior experience in an administrative or support role is desirable but not essential.


• Familiarity with Microsoft Office applications (Word/PowerPoint/Excel) is beneficial.

Competencies:

• Strong organisational skills with attention to detail.


• Excellent communication skills both written and oral.


• Ability to work independently while managing time effectively under pressure.


• Reliable with a strong sense of responsibility towards assigned tasks.


• Proactive approach towards identifying issues/problems before they arise.

Benefits

Here are a select few benefits that Taylor Wessing offer; 

• Hybrid working (Offering the opportunity to work remotely, while maintaining a social boundary by working from our award-winning offices for 3 days a week). 


• Holiday (Our basic annual holiday entitlement starts at 25 days, with a further discretionary day of paid leave in December. You may also purchase up to five extra days each year (pro rata). 


• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity leave (After one-year service, you are entitled to up to 26 weeks leave full pay if you or your partner give birth or adopt a child). 

Along with these there are many more benefits we offer, with the addition of a comprehensive flexible benefits package available. 

Our culture

Nurturing a diverse, inclusive culture allows all of our talent to flourish, sparks creativity and powers innovation.  We continue to build a team that exemplifies inclusivity and reflects the firm's core values: creative, excellence, integrity, responsible, respect and team.  We value and celebrate the differences in who we are, what we have experienced and how we think, so all candidates will be treated fairly regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, marital status, neurodiversity, pregnancy, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.

The way we work

At Taylor Wessing, we never settle for average. We're creative thinkers, problem solvers and continuous learners who excel at what we do and believe our best work is still ahead of us. We are a firm that's large enough for you to achieve your ambitions, but connected enough to be a true community.  

Taylor Wessing

Taylor Wessing is a global law firm that serves the world's most innovative people and businesses. Deeply embedded within our sectors, we work closely together with our clients to crack complex problems, enabling ideas and aspirations to thrive. Together we challenge expectation and create extraordinary results. By shaping the conversation in our sectors, we enable our clients to unlock growth, protect innovation and accelerate ambition. 

With 1250+ lawyers, 350+ partners, 26 offices and 16 jurisdictions we are looking to expand our Legal Support (Ireland)  team, with the addition of a Trainee PA.

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