Support, Legal Support

Job Description

About Us

McDonalds has run its business in the UK since 1974 and currently operates over 1500 restaurants across the UK and Ireland, serving almost four million customers each day. McDonalds is one of the UKs largest private sector employers, employing over 170,000 people.

Department Overview

The UK & Ireland Legal Team is seeking a highly organised, proactive and effective legal support assistant. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced legal assistant to join a large and highly regarded inhouse legal team in a fun and friendly environment.

You will be a part of the UK&I Legal Team, which is highly regarded across the business as a high performing, friendly and dynamic team with a great reputation for influencing, challenging and leading those at all levels, across all departments. You will report into a Legal Counsel in the Real Estate Legal Practice Group. The wider UK&I Legal Department consists of around 23 team members.

Who are my customers?

• The UK&I Legal team
• McDonald's Development team, which comprises separate teams of Acquisitions Surveyors, Estates Surveyors and Construction Project Managers
• The Global Legal Team, including Global Compliance, Global Litigation, and lawyers in other markets.

Duties

You will provide legal and administrative support to the UK&I Legal team, supporting both the Governance sub team and the Real Estate sub team. Your accountabilities will include the following:

• Supporting on responding to Global corporate governance reporting requests.
• Maintain and monitor company registers.
• Support for Board Meeting preparation
• Company secretarial filings and regulatory supports
• Support changes to legal entities, such as change of registered address, change of directors, updating of powers of attorney
• Production of real estate transactional documents and reports, including formatting, numbering, cross referencing, copying plans and other attachments, printing and binding
• Carrying out Land Registry and other searches
• Liaising with internal stakeholders in Global Legal and UK Development teams
• Arranging for transfers of completion funds
• Assisting with property transaction procedures, including completion and exchange
• Carrying out general administrative duties such as photocopying, scanning, and filing, and supporting the team with general administrative tasks as required
• Electronic filing of transaction files and documents
• Other support to the Real Estate and Governance sub teams as required

Qualifications

• Advanced user of Word and competent with other Microsoft Office applications such as Powerpoint and Excel, as well as Adobe Acrobat
• Proficient at formatting, editing and comparing and cross referencing contracts in Word, and formatting and proof reading documents and correcting common mistakes confidently and without supervision
• High levels of efficiency with good attention to detail
• Excellent organisational skills and diary management skills
• Pride in ensuring tasks are carried out correctly and efficiently
• Team player with helpful, collaborative approach and "can do" attitude
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with web filing at Companies House and awareness of the UK Companies Act highly desirable
• An interest in real estate, and desire to take ownership of workload and applying independent thought to progress tasks

Compensation

Bonus Eligible: EDIT

Long - Term Incentive: EDIT

Benefits Eligible: EDIT