Legal Secretary

Fantastic opportunity for a proactive and drivenexperienced Legal Secretary to join our leading Banking team, supportingPartners Richard Sealy and Chris Lister, as well as our wider team of feeearners. This role is based in our Manchester office. While a regular officepresence of three days per week is required, Gateley fully embraces hybridworking, offering a mix of home and office work. If you're seeking a rolewithin a supportive, ambitious, and energetic team, and want to join anaward-winning law-led professional services business, we'd love to hear fromyou.

The team

OurBanking & Finance team has a wealth of experience in all aspects of banking& finance transactions. We act for lenders across the sector, providing endto end advice which helps our clients to manage risk and comply with regulatoryrequirements. We act for a wide range of financial institutions including themajor UK clearing banks, challenger banks, specialist lenders, asset-basedlenders and numerous fund-based lenders.

Ourborrower client base encompasses a wide variety of organisations includinglarge corporates, owner-managed businesses, property developers and investors,many of whom we have had a close on-going relationship with for a number ofyears. Ourpractice is extensive and wide ranging covering a wealth of banking expertise. Wehave one of the most active private equity and acquisition finance offerings inthe market, with experience of acting for private equity houses, managementteams and debt funders (including banks and speciality debt funds) across anumber of debt structures).

Wealso have an extensive real estate finance practice, with experience in realestate acquisitions, investments and developments and managing extensiveportfolios with relationships with various lenders, major house builders anddevelopers across a range of sectors. Wehave experience in specialist work for asset-based lenders. As well as actingfor many ABL funders in the market, our breadth of experience and knowledge ofeach funder's requirements means that we are also able to act

The person

Thesuccessful candidate will be confident liaising with colleagues, clients andexternal parties, proactively organising and managing diaries and taking thelead on tasks to ensure an exceptional and seamless secretarial supportservice.

Inparticular we look for the following attributes:

• At least three to five years' previouslegal secretary experience is essential.
• Experience within a professional servicesenvironment is highly desirable.
• Experience and competence in:
• Typing, drafting and producing documentsefficiently and accurately.
• Document management - to include generatingdocuments using Word, Power Point and Excel.
• Experience completing manuscriptamendments.
• General secretarial tasks that may varydepending on workload and capacity - to include compliance tasks as required.
• Diary management, ideally including traveland event booking.
• First class, confident communicationskills, both written and verbal.
• Excellent levels of accuracy.
• Capability to prioritise and multitaskeffectively, with good time management and organisational skills.
• Willing to continually learn and adapt tonew procedures.
• Ability to take initiative andself-motivate.
• Experience of working under pressure totight deadlines while remaining calm.
• Always demonstrate discretion and maintainabsolute confidentiality.
• IT skills - Microsoft Word, MicrosoftExcel, dictation, typing, formatting and editing PDF documents.

This job description is not an exhaustive list due to the requirements of the role. Therefore, the job holder may be required from time to time to carry out other ad hoc tasks as requested.

The benefits

Withsupport, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues aroundour great development and progression opportunities will reward your commitmentand loyalty. We offer a competitive remuneration package where you'll berewarded for your individual performance with an opportunity to receive anannual bonus.

Inaddition, we have a wide range of learning and development opportunities viaour Learn platform to develop new skills and progress your career. Our My Flexcomprehensive rewards package includes options covering annual leave (and thebenefit of purchasing extra days), cycle to work, critical illness benefit,employee assistance programme, group personal pension, health care, seasonticket loan and many more benefits (grade dependent). Finally, with Perks AtWork/Home you can select a host of retail benefits that suit your needsalongside a Community Online Academy, free courses for all from fitness tocoding to languages to hip hop dance.

We are Gateley

Weare forward thinking and straight talking, our approach is to find solutions tothe problems that our clients face. Gateley is a legal and professionalservices group, we are a group of formidable experts in all areas of law andbusiness. Passionate problem solvers, we get our kicks from finding the rightanswers and getting our legal and business clients where they need to be. Wesupport more than 5,700 active clients, ranging from FTSE 100 companies toprivate individuals, in the UK and beyond. Being part of Gateley is not justabout the expertise that you bring; it's about attitude too.

The'Gateley Story' is the story of our people and our culture. It is what has gotus to where we are today as a successful business and it's the driving forcebehind the Gateley Team Spirit and the values that have shaped it. We have aset of shared internal values that capture what the Gateley Team Spirit is andthis includes five elements that bind us all together as one Gateley: Ambitiousfor Success, Forward Thinking, Room to Breathe, Trusted to Do and WorkingTogether. Every year across the group, we recognise members of our team thathave gone and above and beyond and have lived these shared values. They arerecognised at our annual Gateley Team Spirit awards.

Diversity, inclusion and well being

Diversity,inclusion and well being is an important part of Gateley's culture and values.We recruit talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures,providing equal opportunities for all to join our team regardless of age, sex,race, sexual orientation, disability, or culture.

Wecreate an exciting and rewarding place to work that aims to fulfil everyone'spotential and together to achieve personal and business goals. We offerflexible working patterns to help our staff achieve a good work/ life balanceand we encourage candidates seeking flexibility in our next role to applyfor any of our vacancies.

We're proud to have been recognised by The Law Society as gold standard for ourDiversity and Inclusion Charter and to be Stonewall Diversity Champions.

AdditionalInformation

Ifyou are successful in receiving an offer of a role with our company a varietyof pre-employment screening checks will be completed. Our screening checks caninclude but are not limited to your eligibility to work, professional andacademic qualifications, any criminal records, your financial stability andreferences from previous employers. The screening that takes place will berelevant to your role and will vary from role to role.