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.

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 that helps clients manage risk and comply with regulatory requirements. We work with major UK clearing banks, challenger banks, specialist lenders, asset‑based lenders and numerous fund‑based lenders. Our borrower client base includes large corporates, owner‑managed businesses, property developers and investors.

We also have a strong private equity and acquisition finance offering and an extensive real‑estate finance practice.

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 with in a professional services environment is highly desirable.
• Experience and competence in:
• Typing, drafting and producing documents efficiently and accurately.
• Document management – generating documents using Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
• Completing manuscript amendments.
• General secretarial tasks that may vary depending on workload and capacity – including 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.
• Willingness 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.

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.

With support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues, we offer a competitive remuneration package with an opportunity to receive an annual bonus. In addition, learning and development opportunities are available via our Learn platform. Our My Flex comprehensive rewards package includes annual leave (and the option to purchase extra days), cycle‑to‑work, critical illness benefit, employee assistance programme, group personal pension, health care, season‑ticket loan and many other benefits (grade dependent).

Perks At Work/Home provide a range of retail benefits, a Community Online Academy and free courses ranging from fitness to coding to languages.

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. We are proud to have been recognised by The Law Society as a gold standard for our Diversity and Inclusion Charter and to be Stonewall Diversity Champions.

If you are successful in receiving an offer of a role with our company, a variety of pre‑employment screening checks will be completed. These may include eligibility to work, professional and academic qualifications, criminal records, financial stability and references from previous employers. The screening performed will be relevant to your role and will vary from role to role.