Three Crowns overview

Three Crowns LLP is a law firm that was founded in 2014 by specialist international arbitration advocates in the belief that international disputes call for focused advice and advocacy. The firm engages primarily in complex, high-value disputes, and counts among its clients many industry leaders and sovereign States. The firm has grown significantly in each of its offices – London, Paris, Madrid, Washington DC, and Singapore – and now comprises over 160 people, including 18 partners. Across jurisdictions, it is regarded as a market leader.

The role

The Senior IT Systems Analyst reports to the Senior IT Manager based in London. This role involves regular interaction with many of the firm’s partners, requiring comfort and ease in such an environment.

Primarily a day-to-day hands-on support role which includes limited management oversight and responsibility, the ideal candidate will have experience in a law firm environment, excellent communication skills, the ability to work under pressure while being approachable, and able to inspire confidence. The candidate ideally has experience in an ITIL-based support environment, leading local projects, and can analyse and resolve problems methodically and logically. The service desk function operates a ‘follow-the-sun’ model supporting customers across all regions.

Work hours are typically from 09:00 to 17:30. However, due to the international nature of the firm, flexibility is required to accommodate projects and Service Desk operations, including occasional international travel.

Responsibilities

• Day-to-day accountability for ensuring excellent service delivery firmwide.
• Acting as the first point of escalation of problems raised by the local team and customer related issues.
• Delivering end-to-end support in accordance with IT service management procedures.
• Deputise to the Senior IT Manager in his absence or during their non-working day.
• Identifying improvement opportunities and work with line management to implement programs that enhance Service Desk operations, customer satisfaction, and overall usage of the firm's technology products and services.
• Monitoring queues, calls, and interactions of the Service Desk, and escalations to ensure that all interactions and escalations meet established criteria.
• Proactively learning and training other staff members on new products and services.
• Ensuring that IT asset inventories are maintained, and records are kept up to date.
• Undertake the production and maintenance of technical documentation and articles for the knowledge base.
• Collaborating and manage third-party support and service vendors to ensure that the applications stay operational.
• Performing technical L1 and L2 support functions via phone, remote connection, and deskside visits, as required.

Skills and knowledge

Competitive candidates will possess:

• A minimum of three years of experience within legal IT.
• Experience in incident, request, major incident, and problem management.
• Experience working within an ITSM tool, with reporting and monitoring skills.
• Experience with leading small improvement projects/initiatives.
• Solid technical knowledge of Windows 10, Teams, Active Directory / Azure AD, Exchange, Intune and Microsoft Office 365 suite.
• Knowledge of remote working technologies.
• Technical knowledge and support of video conferencing systems.
• Configuration, and diagnostics of a laptop, mobile device or tablet - familiarity with Lenovo and apple ecosystem is advantageous.
• Experience with legal industry applications – iManage, BigHand, Aderant, Intapp, Workshare, InterAction, and Template Management systems.

Personal Qualities

• Demonstrate strong customer service skills with the ability to empathise with customers, and to resolve conflicts.

• Demonstrate the ability to work independently.

• Self-starter and pro-active working practices.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

• Effective prioritisation skills with the ability to manage multiple high priority initiatives in a fast paced, highly technical environment.

• Excellent analytical skills.

• Successfully perform the administrative responsibilities of this position.