Senior Administrative Assistant

Do you like to help people do their best work? How about supporting attorneys, paralegals, and auditors as part of a highly productive team? If the answer is "yes" then we have a position for you!

Join our dedicated in-house legal department where you can make a significant impact! We are seeking a Senior Administrative Assistant who excels in supporting a diverse group of legal and audit experts. Your role will be crucial in ensuring that our team operates efficiently and effectively, enabling them to focus on what they do best-delivering exceptional legal and audit services in a timely and professional manner.

This position requires daily in-office presence.

At Ameritas, our mission is Fulfilling Life. We do that in many ways, but especially by helping people invest in themselves by offering trusted financial products and advice. Because we believe everyone should be happy, healthy, and financially secure, we work hard to provide trusted financial products and valued guidance, including individual life and disability insurance, employee benefits, retirement planning, investments, and wealth management services.

What you do

• Manages officer and attorney schedules and travel arrangements.
• Screens and responds to incoming correspondence, inquiries, paper mail, and phone calls.
• Responsible for the receiving, organization, coordination, and follow-up of both electronic and paper files and records.
• Assists in managing expenditures by paying invoices and tracking to a budget.
• Creates and maintains reports, charts, and graphs.
• Reviews or edits forms and other legal documents.
• Acts as back-up and temporary coverage for paralegals as needed.
• Coordinates team meetings and Lunch & Learns; organizing everything including locations, guest speakers, tech, and food.
• Gathers, compiles, verifies, and analyzes information.
• Creates presentation materials and prepares documents.
• Works through competing priorities while still meeting deadlines and with high accuracy.
• Maintains a high level of confidentiality of sensitive information.

What you bring

• H.S Diploma or GED required
• 2-4 years of related experience required
• Preferred Notary and Digital Notary (or a willingness to obtain)

• Preferred experience working for a law firm or in-house counsel

What We Offer

• Our company motto is "Fulfilling Life" and we take that job seriously, with a heavy commitment to volunteering and community support, employee well-being, and providing quality products and services that help our customers create a brighter future.
• Being a mutual-based organization, the return on our investment goes back into the company, to benefit our members/customers.
• We're committed to professional development, opportunity, inclusion and diversity. Team building and collaboration are also priorities.
• A total rewards package with all the comprehensive health and welfare benefits you'd expect, including competitive pay and incentives, 401(k), flexible work schedules and time off to care for yourself and others.
• Additional popular benefits, including tuition reimbursement, and student loan repayment, an incentivized well-being program, adoption assistance, paid time off for volunteering, training and career development opportunities.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

Ameritas has a reputation as a company that cares, and because everyone should feel safe bringing their authentic, whole self to work, we're committed to an inclusive culture and diverse workplace, enriched by our individual differences. We are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer that hires based on qualifications, positive attitude and exemplary work ethic, regardless of sex, race, color, national origin, religion, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.