About Gilson Gray
Gilson Gray’s Real Estate team is part of Gilson Gray’s continually growing organisation. Gilson Gray LLP is a comprehensive law firm, offering expert legal, property, and financial services. We support clients throughout their entire lifetime. The Real Estate team has decades of experience and can advise on every Real Estate-related query.
Based in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee, North Berwick, Lincoln, and London. We focus on ensuring we provide the highest level of advice and ongoing service to our clients. We are ambitious and have significantly grown the team over the last year. We pride ourselves on looking after our clients personally and providing the utmost standard of service.
This role can be held in our Edinburgh or Aberdeen office.
Our Team
We are looking to hire a highly driven Legal Secretary / Administrator to join our successful Real Estate department in either Edinburgh or Aberdeen.
We are an enthusiastic team that supports each other to achieve a great working environment. We value each other’s expertise and opinion and pride ourselves on offering an inclusive, enjoyable, and motivating place to work.
The Role
We are looking to further strengthen our current team with the appointment of an experienced candidate.
As a Legal Secretary / Administrator at Gilson Gray, you’ll be responsible for:
· Liaising with internal and external clients by email, telephone and face to face.
· Opening and closing client files.
· Carrying out client identity checks.
· Preparing and amending documents.
· Dictation and audio typing.
· Assisting with general administrative duties.
· Diary management.
Required Knowledge and Experience
· Previous experience in a property or administration role is preferred.
· Excellent organisational skills with the ability to prioritise workloads and work deadlines.
· Good written and oral communication skills
· You will have the ability to develop strong working relationships within the team as well as communicate concisely both verbally and in writing both internal and external clients
· A calm, helpful and professional approach
· IT competent, particularly with reference to the use of Word and Excel
Our ideal candidate would also
· Ability to work as part of a large team and contribute to the overall business aims.
· A proactive forward-thinking approach is required.
· The ideal candidate must possess strong organisational and problem-solving skills.
· Strong willingness to progress within the firm.
Benefits
· A competitive salary with annual review and potential bonus award depending upon performance
· 32 days holiday a year (includes bank holidays)
· Birthday day off
· 3 x Death in Service benefits
· Membership of an occupational pension scheme
· Wellbeing initiatives and opportunity to access online Health Provider
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
- Company events
- Company pension
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Referral programme
Experience:
- Legal Secretaries: 1 year (preferred)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Edinburgh EH1 2BW
