Legal Administrative Assistant

The Position:     Administrative Assistant

 

Reports To:      Associate General Counsel 

 

Location:      Seattle

 

The Organization:  Quellos is a financial boutique dedicated to providing value-added financial solutions to select institutional investors and substantial private clients worldwide.  Since 1994, Quellos has provided leading edge investment management services as the cornerstone to meeting a client?s financial objectives.  From this foundation, significant ?value added? is achieved by ultimately creating a comprehensive, integrated and customized solution that addresses broader wealth management and capital market issues. 

 

Today, Quellos manages billions of dollars for private clients and institutions worldwide and is considered a market leader in Alternative Investment Strategies.  With headquarters in Seattle and offices in New York, San Francisco, Durham and London, Quellos has over 270 professionals working in a team-oriented culture.  This culture allows Quellos to be unencumbered by the bureaucracy or fiefdoms that often plague many larger financial service organizations.   

 

The Department:  The Legal and Compliance Department is a 17-person department, including attorneys, paralegals, compliance specialists and legal administrative assistants. The Department assists the company in all areas of the business, most significantly with the development, funding and management of hedge and private equity funds of funds managed by the company, and associated regulatory and compliance matters.

 

Position Summary:    Administrative Assistant, Legal & Compliance Department

The role of the Legal Administrative Assistant will be to act as the ?right-hand? support to the Associate General Counsel, Assistant General Counsel and paralegal.  The candidates ?can-do? attitude will positively influence the team work of the department and promote the department?s value to the company.

 

The Legal Administrative Assistant will also serve as the ?lead? administrative assistant for the department and will be responsible for coordinating with other administrative assistants in the department and for implementing decisions and procedures affecting departmental processes.

 

Duties will include, but will not be limited to, the following:  primary responsibility will relate to production of legal documents, such as prospectuses, partnership agreements, internal memoranda and other documents.  Other duties include working closely with the legal administrative assistant team providing additional or back up support; assisting paralegal staff in producing and responding to various regulatory filings; answering telephones and scheduling appointments for attorneys and paralegals, document filing, managing electronic and hard copies of documents, processing information and entering into the database, distributing company mail, and photo-copying. Additional projects will be assigned to the successful candidate in accordance with their skill set.

 

 

Professional

Qualifications:  The ideal candidate will have relevant administrative experience, ideally including experience in the legal arena.  He/She must possess strong word processing skills and computer skills (MS Word, Excel, DeltaView, Adobe and Visio are preferred), excellent communication skills, and flexibility and ability to work cooperatively with others in the department as well as other departments within the company.

 

The successful candidate will also possess the following:

 

? Ability to multi-task, and prioritize their work.

 

? Ability to remain detail-oriented while working under pressure and at a fast pace.

 

? Be extremely efficient and organized.

 

? Ability to work individually and as a member of a team.

 

? A desire to take ownership of their work and share responsibility on various projects.

 

? Strong independent learning skills.

 

? Be a self-starter who takes initiative.

 

? The maturity and sound judgment to interface with very senior-level executives.

 

Personal

Characteristics: We are looking for a professional, enthusiastic individual who enjoys working in a team-oriented group with diverse personalities.

 

 

Compensation:    In addition to an annual base salary and an opportunity for equity

in the firm, the successful candidate will be eligible to receive cash compensation in the form of a discretionary annual bonus, based both on individual merit as well as entity-wide profitability.  The firm also provides a generous benefit package including medical, dental and vision benefits, life insurance, and short-term and long-term disability benefits, as well as a 401(k) Profit Sharing Program. 

 

Contact:  Qualified applicants may submit resumes to

Quellos-legaladmin06@please-apply.com

No phone calls please.