Technician: Service Desk

Overview

Mayer Brown is an international law firm positioned to represent the world’s major corporations, funds, and financial institutions in their most important and complex transactions and disputes. We are recognized by our clients as strategic partners with deep commercial instincts and a commitment to creatively anticipating their needs and delivering excellence in everything we do.

We are a collegial, collaborative firm where highly motivated individuals with an unwavering commitment to excellence receive the opportunity, support, and development they need to grow, thrive, and realize their greatest potential all while supporting the Firm’s client service principles of excellence, strategic partnership, commercial instinct, integrated strengths, innovation, and collaboration across our international firm.

If you enjoy working with team members whose defining characteristics are exceptional client service, initiative, professionalism, responsiveness, and adaptability, you may be the person we are seeking to join our Information Technology department in our Chicago office, as a Technician:
Service Desk.

The Technician:
Service Desk team is responsible for providing the First Line IT Support service for IT services and systems. Phone-based, they are responsible for management and escalation of all incoming service requests and fault tickets in accordance with global Service Desk procedures. They will contribute to the successful deployment/upgrade of IT services and systems. They are also required to support the overall IT strategy within the business.

Essential Functions:

• Manages all incoming incidents and service requests in accordance with standard procedures
• Delivers support services in accordance with internal service level expectations and ensure that customer expectations are set and consistently met or exceeded
• Provides proactive incident management across all global queues for regional tickets
• Escalates problems based on trend analysis to the Problem Management process and acts as a technical resources for escalated problems
• Operates within and makes suggestions for improving service desk standards and guidelines
• Develops a sound understanding of IT operations and related applications and IT systems as well as business related processes and procedure
• Works with vendor support contacts to resolve technical issues within the service desk environment
• Defines, documents, and maintains relevant service desk processes including all relevant communication activities
• Adheres to all IT and user quality assurance practices/processes
• Provides advanced remote access support and ad-hoc support for non-standard personal and/or remote access devices
• Accurately maintains all relevant applications support documentation including the on-line knowledge base
• Undertakes regular service activities (audit/leavers/joiners) to ensure timely completion
• Maintains a proactive working relationship between your team and other teams within the IT department and the users
• Delivers proactive communications via recognized channels
• Provides on-call assistance when needed
• Assists in other area's in IT when needed and perform other duties as directed

Education/Training/

Certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field. An equivalent combination of education and/or experience may be considered in lieu of the degree when the experience has been directly related to the functions of the job

Professional

Experience:

• 2+ year experience as a Service Desk analyst in a professional services environment or law firm required
• Professional Certification and/or experience (e.g. Microsoft Office Specialist) preferred

Technical

Skills:

• Strong knowledge of Active Directory and Exchange as they relates to Service Desk activities
• Strong support capabilities in all MS Office products and applications including Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and Copilot
• Good knowledge of Mobile devices such as iPhone, iPads and Android devices
• Strong knowledge of document management systems and e-filing processes
• Strong support capabilities for other non-standard legal applications
• Good working knowledge of remote access technologies and video…