Legal Administrative Assistant

Job Title: Legal Administrative Assistant Company: IREN Job Category: SAP MM Roles & Responsibilities: IREN is seeking a Legal Administrative Assistant to provide day\-to\-day administrative support to the Legal team, working closely with lawyers and business stakeholders to keep the team running smoothly. The main priority of the role is managing legal billing \- processing invoices, purchase orders and service entry sheets in SAP, and coordinating monthly accrual requests \- with a smaller amount of billing support for Risk \& Compliance. Beyond billing, the role also provides broader administrative support across the Legal team, and occasionally other departments, as required. * 2–5 years' experience in an administrative or team support role, ideally within a legal or professional services environment, with some exposure to billing or accounts payable. * Comfortable picking up new systems \- experience with SAP or a similar ERP system is a plus, but not essential. * Willingness to learn purchase\-to\-pay (P2P) processes, including purchase orders, service entry sheets, and invoice matching. * Strong attention to detail and a high level of accuracy across both billing and general admin tasks. * Ability to work collaboratively with multiple business units and stakeholders, including outside counsel. * Strong organisational skills with the ability to juggle competing priorities and deadlines. * Excellent written and verbal communication skills. * Confident investigating and resolving discrepancies or queries as they come up. * Proactive mindset with the ability to identify process improvements and efficiencies. * Ability to work autonomously while also integrating effectively within a team. * Strong time management skills and ability to adapt to changing priorities. * Ability to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive financial and legal information. * Solid Microsoft Excel skills. * Prior experience within a professional services environment * Provide SAP support to the Legal team for billing\-related activities. * Receive incoming invoices from outside counsel and legal vendors, ensuring transactions are accurately coded to the correct legal entity, cost centre, and general ledger account. * Provide the same invoice and billing support outlined above for Risk \& Compliance vendors, on a smaller scale than Legal. * Create and process purchase orders in SAP for legal matters and vendor engagements, ensuring purchase orders are raised prior to services being received. * Perform service entry receipting (Service Entry Sheets) and ensure transactions are processed in a timely manner to enable vendor payment and support accurate financial reporting. * Assist with invoice matching and resolution of discrepancies between purchase orders, service entry sheets, and invoices. * Monitor open purchase orders and ensure outstanding items are followed up and resolved. * Liaise with internal stakeholders and vendors to resolve billing and invoice queries. * Conduct regular check\-ins with Accounts Payable to track invoice status and troubleshoot payment delays. * Send monthly legal accrual emails to internal business clients, requesting outstanding accrual information for the relevant period. * Maintain legal billing documentation and ensure records are complete and audit ready. * Identify opportunities to improve legal billing workflows and SAP processes. * Provide guidance to business users on legal billing processes and SAP best practices, as needed. * Assist with audit requests and provide supporting documentation when required. General Legal Team \& Administrative Support * Provide general administrative support to the Legal department \- and other departments as needed \- during peak periods or as directed by management. * Assist with day\-to\-day administrative needs of the Legal team, such as diary coordination, correspondence, filing, and document management, as required. * Support the onboarding of new Legal team members. * Help organise team events as needed. * Collate documents for signature. * Coordinate meeting bookings. * Assist with processing team expenses. * Help arrange team travel. * Help with team expenses on Concur. * Support the Legal team with ad hoc projects and tasks outside of billing as priorities allow. + Comprehensive extended health and dental coverage to keep you and your family supported + Paid vacation to recharge, travel, or simply enjoy more life outside of work We value diverse perspectives and believe that skills can be developed. If you’re passionate about this role, we want to hear from you — whether you meet every criteria or not. Your unique experiences might be exactly what we need! Work Location: Sydney, Australia Availability: Full time

* Compensation \& Rewards + Competitive salary range, finalized based on experience and impact + Short and long\-term incentive programs designed to reward both results and long term company success * Wellbeing \& Benefits Key Skills: Purchase Orders Salary: AUD 50000 - 81900 per yearly