Banking Legal Secretary

Fantastic opportunity for a proactive and driven experienced Legal Secretary to join our leading Banking team, supporting Partners Richard Sealy and Chris Lister, as well as our wider team of fee earners. This role is based in our Manchester office.

While a regular office presence of three days per week is required, Gateley fully embraces hybrid working, offering a mix of home and office work. If you’re seeking a role within a supportive, ambitious, and energetic team, and want to join an award-winning law-led professional services business, we’d love to hear from you.

The team

Our Banking & Finance team has a wealth of experience in all aspects of banking & finance transactions.

We act for lenders across the sector, providing end to end advice which helps our clients to manage risk and comply with regulatory requirements. We act for a wide range of financial institutions including the major UK clearing banks, challenger banks, specialist lenders, asset-based lenders and numerous fund-based lenders.

Our borrower client base encompasses a wide variety of organisations including large corporates, owner-managed businesses, property developers and investors, many of whom we have had a close on-going relationship with for a number of years.

Our practice is extensive and wide ranging covering a wealth of banking expertise.

We have one of the most active private equity and acquisition finance offerings in the market, with experience of acting for private equity houses, management teams and debt funders (including banks and speciality debt funds) across a number of debt structures).

We also have an extensive real estate finance practice, with experience in real estate acquisitions, investments and developments and managing extensive portfolios with relationships with various lenders, major house builders and developers across a range of sectors.

We have experience in specialist work for asset-based lenders. As well as acting for many ABL funders in the market, our breadth of experience and knowledge of each funder’s requirements means that we are also able to act on multi-bank transactions involving different lending products.

The person

The successful candidate will be confident liaising with colleagues, clients and external parties, proactively organising and managing diaries and taking the lead on tasks to ensure an exceptional and seamless secretarial support service.

• At least three to five years’ previous legal secretary experience is essential.

• Experience within a professional services environment is highly desirable.

Experience and competence in: * Typing, drafting and producing documents efficiently and accurately.

• Document management – to include generating documents using Word, Power Point and Excel.

• Experience completing manuscript amendments.

• General secretarial tasks that may vary depending on workload and capacity – to include compliance tasks as required.

• Diary management, ideally including travel and event booking.

• First class, confident communication skills, both written and verbal.

• Excellent levels of accuracy.

• Capability to prioritise and multitask effectively, with good time management and organisational skills.

• Willing to continually learn and adapt to new procedures.

• Ability to take initiative and self-motivate.

• Experience of working under pressure to tight deadlines while remaining calm.

• Always demonstrate discretion and maintain absolute confidentiality.

• IT skills – Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, dictation, typing, formatting and editing PDF documents.