Process and Reporting Analyst Business Support

Gillespie Macandrew is a successful independent Scottish legal firm with a strong focus on private client and property-related legal work. Our strategy focuses on 4 core sectors: Private Client, Land & Rural Business, Renewable Energy, and Commercial Real Estate. To clients in these sectors, the firm offers a comprehensive range of legal services spread across 8 practice teams. With 29 partners and over 150 staff, we operate from offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Perth.

Our Business Support teams play crucial roles in our firm, ensuring that the legal teams can focus on delivering high-quality legal services to clients while the Business Support teams handle the administrative and operational tasks that keep the firm running smoothly. They provide essential support functions such as financial stewardship, risk management, innovation and technology, and ensuring the smooth running of day-to-day operations.

Gillespie Macandrew has a new opportunity for a Process and Reporting Analyst to support our Operation and Finance teams in the Edinburgh office. The main objective of the role is to assist in identifying solutions to enhance efficiency and productivity by bridging the gap between business users and technology. The focus will be on data analysis, collaboration technologies, and working on client and partner projects. The role will also involve serving as a subject matter expert on data flow and reporting.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Supporting with various projects including process automation, document automation and management, and collaboration activities.
• Using data to generate insights, helping the team analyse business issues and opportunities related to IT and business changes.
• Test planning, test execution, preparing user documentation, and providing training to employees for successful implementation of new processes or systems.

The successful candidate for this position will possess analytical thinking and problem-solving abilities, strong communication and interpersonal skills, and project management skills. They should be able to demonstrate effective time management and organisational skills, have knowledge of business processes and procedures, and be able to adapt to change and work in a fast-paced environment. Advanced Excel skills are required, and knowledge of 3E Elite, iManage, Microsoft Power Platform technologies including Power BI, and relational database management are desirable.

This is a full-time position; however, consideration will also be given to part-time and flexible working, offering a degree of flexibility in your place of work. This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your career in a modern, professional, and rewarding environment, supported by a competitive remuneration and benefits package.

We are committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment and creating a workplace culture in which diversity and inclusion are valued and everyone is treated with dignity and respect. As part of our zero-tolerance approach to discrimination in any form, you and any job applicants will receive equal treatment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation (Protected Characteristics). We are also committed to providing equitable treatment to all those we deal with as an organisation, including our clients and suppliers.