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Our business services team is integral to the firm’s success. We aim to deliver excellent client service and are always looking for talented individuals with the ability and commitment to help us achieve this goal.

Deacons offers exciting career prospects for professionals to work alongside our leading team of lawyers in a wide range of fields including:

Accounts

The accounts team plays a vital role in ensuring the smooth running of the firm’s business, protecting our financial assets, and managing day-to-day billing and administration of client accounts, as well as ensuring we comply with all necessary regulatory and statutory requirements.

Human Resources & Administration

Our people define us so it is essential that we continue to attract, develop and retain the best. Deacons’ Human Resources team plays an important role in ensuring that we achieve this, providing operational support in relation to talent management and employee relations, as well as managing rewards, resourcing, and training programmes. Meanwhile our Administration team is what keeps the firm’s business running smoothly, taking care of premises, messenger services, mail, catering and client conference facilities.

Information and Library Services

Our team of dedicated Information and Library Services professionals manages the firm’s all important legal and business information resources, including both printed and online material. They work closely with our lawyers to assist in complex legal research and support our business development initiatives.

Information Technology

Our IT experts provide high quality, high speed systems and solutions allowing us to deliver a first class service to our clients. We rely on our IT team for infrastructure and service delivery, as well as customer support. Our aim is to be the most technologically advanced firm in Hong Kong, so we are always keen to hear from IT professionals with the skills to help us achieve this.

Business Development

Our Marketing & Business Development team plans, develops and implements strategic business development activities and firmwide initiatives, such as our sector and client care programmes. The team also plays an exciting role in managing the firm’s internal and external communications, client and industry events, intelligence gathering and CRM, as well as promoting the firm in Hong Kong and internationally.

If you want an exciting and dynamic career at Hong Kong’s leading independent law firm and believe you have what it takes to be a successful member of our team then we would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact hresources@deacons.com for more information about career opportunities at Deacons or click on the link below for details of our current vacancies.

How to apply

Please send your full CV either by post to

The Head of Human Resources Department

Deacons
5th Floor, Alexandra House
18 Chater Road
Central
Hong Kong

or by email to "hresources@deacons.com"
or to private fax: +852 2810 9126.

We will only consider applicants who apply directly to our firm and not through recruitment agencies. All applications will be treated in strict confidence. Personal data collected will be used for recruitment purposes only. Applicants who do not hear from us within 4 weeks may consider their applications unsuccessful and the applications will be destroyed within 6 months.

CURRENT POSITIONS AVAILABLE

Assistant Credit Controller

Responsibilities:

Handle queries from secretarial staff/fee earners regarding client payment status upon request
Send unpaid bills listing to secretarial staff/fee earners on requested basis
Assist in monthly reports (debt & provision summary, WIP balances, etc) for Hong Kong to management
Make telephone call to clients, send reminders for bills recovery
Review and clear long aging disbursement/WIP/unpaid bills/client money
Work closely with fee earners on dispute resolution
Other duties as appointed by the line manager

Requirements:

University graduate processes Accounting degree or equivalent qualification
At least 5 years relevant experience working independently with an multicultural environment
Mix of supervisory and hands-on skill required
Good command of written and spoken English and Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin)
Proficient in PC operations, MS Office applications, Chinese Word Processing
Strong numerical sense, efficient and work well with all level of people
Initiative, highly driven and organized

Temp Accounts Officer

Requirements:

Diploma or above in Accounting or related discipline
At least 3 years relevant experience in sizable companies or professional services industry
Good command in both English and Chinese languages
Proficient in using MS applications especially in Excel and accounting software, preferably has experience with 3E system
Attention to detail, organized, hardworking, responsible, self-motivated and able to work under pressure
Immediately available

(Part-time) Graduate Recruitment Assistant

Responsibilities:

to assist in organising recruitment events, including logistics arrangement and preparation of marketing materials
to maintain and update records of job applicants
to consolidate and file recruitment records
to arrange job interviews and assessment meetings
to assist in updating marketing materials, intranet sites and other resources as and when required
to provide clerical support and event support

Requirements:

Undergraduate Degree in Human Resources Management or related discipline
Attention to detail and accuracy
Self-motivated team player, organised and has a commitment to results
Ability to maintain confidentiality and discern sensitivity issues
Good communication skills in both English and Chinese languages
Proficient in PC skills, such as MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Chinese word processing
Immediate availability is definitely an advantage

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Accounts

Human Resources & Administration

Information and Library Services

Information Technology

Business Development

CURRENT POSITIONS AVAILABLE

Assistant Credit Controller

Temp Accounts Officer

(Part-time) Graduate Recruitment Assistant

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1	It is often necessary for individual clients or (where clients are businesses, incorporated or otherwise) their individual representatives (including without limitation directors, other officers, employees and staff members of client businesses) (in this statement these individual representatives will, for the sake of brevity, also be referred to generally as “clients” and, in paragraph 4.7(b) below, as "Representatives") to supply Deacons with data about themselves in connection with Deacons’ provision of legal advice and services to those clients. These data may include copies, and other details, of identity documents, proof of address, other contact details, and proof of authority to instruct Deacons.

2	Failure to supply such data may result in Deacons being unable to provide clients with the legal services, or generally to give clients the legal advice, requested.

3	It is also the case that Deacons collects data from clients in the ordinary course of the client-solicitor relationship on an ongoing basis.

4	The purposes for which personal data relating to a client may be used are as follows:

	Obligatory purposes - if a client does not want Deacons to use his personal data for any of the purposes listed in paragraphs 4.1 to 4.6 below (inclusive), Deacons will not be able to provide the legal services, or give the legal advice, requested

	all kinds of personal data about a client will be used for -

		4.1	the provision of legal advice and services to the client in accordance with the instructions of the client and as Deacons may otherwise deem appropriate or necessary;

		4.2	designing legal services or related products for clients’ use;

		4.3	collection of outstanding fees from clients;

		4.4	meeting the requirements to conduct client identification and verification and to make disclosure under the requirements of any law, guideline, code of practice or practice direction binding on, or applicable to, Deacons or any of its branches or associated firms or offices including, but not limited to, any such law, guideline, code or practice direction relating to anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism;

		4.5	purposes specifically provided for in any particular service offered by Deacons;

		4.6	purposes directly related to any of the above;

			the client's name and contact details (including but not limited to office address, telephone number and email address) provided by the client to Deacons will be used for -

		4.7	marketing Deacons' own legal services and/or related products.

			If a client does not want Deacons to use his personal data for the purposes mentioned in paragraph 4.7 above, he may write to or email the officer named at the end of this statement, indicating his decision and/or return a copy of this statement to that officer.

			IMPORTANT NOTES about Deacons marketing:

				All marketing in relation to Deacons legal services and related products to Representatives is sent to them in their official capacity as representatives of the client business for whom they work or represent and not in their individual capacity.

5	Data held by Deacons relating to a client will generally be kept confidential but Deacons may provide such information for the above purposes to:

		5.1	any other branch or associated firm or office of Deacons;

		5.2	a government agency such as the Hong Kong Police, the Hong Kong Customs and Excise Service, the Hong Kong Immigration Service and the Independent Commission against Corruption, if Deacons knows or suspects that any person is engaged in drug trafficking, terrorism or any other serious crime or handling the proceeds of crime or that any property constitutes terrorist property; in this case, the obligation to report to the authorities may override Deacons' confidentiality obligations;

1	For people intending on applying for jobs within Deacons you should aware that it is necessary for staff members ('data subjects') to supply the Firm with data about themselves and sometimes also their family members from time to time in connection with their employment.

2	Failure to supply such data will result in the Firm being unable to operate its practice properly and may affect a data subject's employment prospects with the Firm and even result in dismissal.

3	The purposes for which data relating to data subjects are to be used are as follows:

	3.1	identification and determination of eligibility for employment in Hong Kong generally and qualifications relevant to data subject's employment with the Firm in particular;

	3.2	assessing work performance, attendance and disciplinary record;

	3.3	reviewing salaries, bonuses and other benefits;

	3.4	consideration of eligibility for staff loans;

	3.5	providing employee references;

	3.6	disclosure to immigration authorities - in relation to employment visa, where required;

	3.7	disclosure to tax authorities in the ordinary course of business;

	3.8	all other matters relating to employment of a data subject.

4	Data held by the Firm relating to data subjects will be kept confidential but the Firm is authorised to provide such information to:

	4.1	any person when the Firm is compelled to make disclosure under the requirements of any law binding on it or any of its branches, including, without limitation, tax authorities;

	4.2	any person with the express or implied consent of the data subject;

	4.3	any person where the interests of the Firm require disclosure;

	4.4	any person where the public interest requires disclosure;

	4.5	any agent, contractor, or third party service provider who provides administrative, telecommunications, computer or other services to the Firm in connection with the operation of its practice;

	4.6	any other person under a duty of confidentiality to the Firm including member of Deacons and other associated law firms and related business which has undertaken to keep such information confidential;

	4.7	persons seeking employee reference;

	4.8	Personnel Department staff of the Firm and supervisors of the data subject during the course of his/her employment; and