Personal Assistant/Legal Administrator – Private Client

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 around 145 staff, we operate from offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Perth.

Our Private Client team is one of the largest in Scotland, with 5 partners and over 40 team members, and is central to the strategy of the firm representing a significant proportion of the firm’s overall turnover.  We provide a full-spectrum of wealth protection, tax and inheritance, trusts and executries advice to high net worth individuals, the elderly, and family-owned and SME business owners in addition to wills, probate, executry and tax compliance services.

We have an excellent opportunity for an experienced PA to support one of our Private Client Partners located within our Perth Office.  This is a varied and comprehensive role and as an integral member of the team, you will be responsible for providing exceptional administrative and secretarial support, ensuring the smooth running of our Partner’s busy schedule, and maintaining the highest level of client service at all times.

We envisage the successful candidate to have a minimum of 3 years’ experience in a similar role, ideally within a law firm or professional services environment and have excellent knowledge and understanding of private client practices.

The role requires a highly motivated and pro-active team player with the ability to prioritise workload to an exceptional standard.  The successful applicant will possess excellent communication skills, both written and verbal with the ability to build and maintain collaborative and professional working relationships. It is also important for the candidate to have strong attention to detail skills with the competence to produce audio typed documentation including letters, reports, presentations as well as being proficient in Microsoft Office packages.

This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your career in a modern, professional and rewarding environment, supported by a competitive remuneration and benefits package. To attract top talent, we are open to discussing potential incentives as part of our compensation package. We believe in rewarding our employees for their hard work and are willing to consider creative solutions to encourage the right candidates to apply. To find out more, contact us at recruitment@gillespiemacandrew.co.uk  or ask to speak in confidence with our HR Team.

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.

We are committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment and creating a workplace culture in which diversity and inclusion is 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 treatments to all those we deal with as an organisation, including our clients and suppliers.