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Herbert Smith Freehills

Herbert Smith Freehills was a professional and flexible workplace which provided many opportunities. It has a supportive culture for women in Business Services, and I enjoyed working there. Professional Support Law is a very rewarding career. It is challenging and flexible and a great career to have whilst raising children, as the hours are good. I enjoyed being part of a team and getting to know all the different areas of Business Services. I learnt a great deal about management and delegation and about Time management. It is also a very creative space to work in, which I found very satisfying. I also found helping other lawyers very satisfying.

Herbert Smith Freehills is a commercial law firm located on Castleraegh St in the Sydney CBD. The interior of the law firm building is very well presented & professional. My day at work consisted of collection calls & emails, updating a spreadsheet ledger, liaising with partners & their secretaries as well as following up on unidentified unallocated payments & working with the daily bank statement. The other team members were amiable & even helpful. It was a short term temp assignment so I was in & out in the blink of an eye.

A typical day for me, was management, maintenance and enhancing the virutal environment, SAN infrastructure, server hardware and DR / BCP processes. Each day was potentially all of these or only one.
This made the job very interesting and diverse.
We also have some datacentres around Sydney that would require site visits. This helped break up the day and also added a little more variety in the role.

I really enjoyed my position at Herbert Smith Freehills due to the variation in my working role as Office Service Assistant. Examples in duties are as followed 
Reception duties, Courier control, Greeting of internal and external clients, Processing mail and sorting into pigeon holes. Assisting with stock control and maintenance of office equipment (OHS). Ordering of business cards and stationery.

Answering calls from secretaries in relation to billing issues, updating client and matter details, creating matter plans and rate sets, reporting
I learned a lot about multi currencies and more detailed fee rate sets, ebilling
Management was approachable
Culture was friendly
Hardest part was travel
Most enjoyable was the team I worked with

General Secretarial duties from document production to billing.

Team and training was world class.

People generally very friendly and helpful.

Position was a 12 month contract.  This lapsed and a float position was available on a part-time casual basis.

I took this position until a full-time position became available elsewhere.

Fantastic opportunity to work for a large international law firm in an area that was new to me.

Picked things up very quickly and adjusted well.

Great team with active social calendar.

Lovely people but only a 12 month contract offered.

Returned as a casual float until a permanent job came along

Processing for the end to end payroll for the state of NSW.
Including advanced calculations of redundancies, payroll tax, superannuation, ad hoc reporting, end of month and day to day processing for the fortnightly and monthly payroll.
Learned Chris21 payroll system thoroughly.

Never really felt part of a team, management have their favourites and sweep bullying and issues under the rug. Felt very unsettled. 
Job position and title kept getting changed? Nothing was really clear at all? 

This firm may look glamorous from the outside, but it’s far from it once your chucked in the toxic culture.. never will I ever recommend this firm!

Great culture, nice people and opportunity to travel the World. Great on the job training and substantial opportunity for advancement. A grea t place to work

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