Administrative Assistant

Walker Morris LLP; Leeds; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A professional services firm in Leeds is hiring an organised and enthusiastic Administrative Assistant to provide comprehensive support across legal departments. This entry-level role involves various administrative tasks, contributing to team effectiveness and client service. Ideal candidates will have A-level qualifications, administrative experience, and excellent Microsoft Office skills. The role offers a salary of £23,000 to £25,000 with benefits including annual bonuses, leave, and a pension scheme.

Benefits

Annual bonus scheme up to 10%

Minimum of 25 days annual leave

Auto-enrollment in pension scheme with 6% contribution

Death in service benefit of 4x salary

Qualifications

• Previous experience in an administrative or office support role.
• Strong organisational skills to manage multiple tasks.
• Confident communication skills, both written and verbal.

Responsibilities

• Provide administrative support across the business.
• Assist with financial processes including transferring and receipting funds.
• Generate simple bills and billing guides for Fee Earners.

Skills

Organisational skills

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Proactive approach

Collaboration

Education

A-level standard or equivalent qualification

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Overview

Are you looking to start your career in a professional services environment?

Walker Morris is seeking an organised and enthusiastic Administrative Assistant to provide centralised support across all legal departments. This entry-level role offers a fantastic opportunity to gain hands-on experience in a busy, collaborative firm—undertaking a variety of administrative tasks and assisting with document production during peak periods.

By flexibly supporting teams across the business, you’ll play a key role in helping fee earners, PAs, and Secretaries focus on delivering exceptional client service. With the right attitude and a proactive approach, this role offers a clear pathway to progress into a secretarial position over time.

As the Administrative Assistant, you will:

• Being the first point of contact for admin support across the business. Supporting Fee Earners, PAs and Secretaries with administrative support during peak workloads, covering absences and providing ad‑hoc support as required.
• Assisting with financial processes including transferring and receipting funds.
• Running conflict checks in accordance with firm procedures.
• Generating simple bills and billing guides for Fee Earners.
• Managing file admin to include scanning, printing, electronic filing, and archiving.
• Assisting with the opening and closing of matters.
• Working closely with PAs, Secretaries, and Fee Earners to understand priorities and deadlines, ensuring admin tasks are completed accurately and on time.
• Contributing to a collaborative and flexible team environment, supporting colleagues and adapting to changing business needs.
• Producing, formatting, and amending documents using Microsoft Word, Excel, and PDF software.
• Carrying out document comparisons and applying and managing tracked changes.
• Converting files between formats (e.g. Word to PDF) and creating zipped folders for large file sharing.
• Supporting with a small amount of audio typing and transcription.

We are looking for:

• Educated to A-level standard or equivalent qualification.
• Previous experience in an administrative or office support role, within a professional services environment.
• A proactive and enthusiastic approach with a willingness to learn and develop new skills.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise and manage multiple tasks in a busy environment.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy in all work produced.
• Confident communication skills, both written and verbal, with a professional and helpful manner.
• Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team while also using initiative.
• High level of discretion and respect for confidentiality.
• An interest in progressing into a secretarial role.

Please note, during your probation period, this role will be based in the office. Depending on your development in the role, this may continue for up to the first 12 months. After this period, we offer hybrid working, Monday to Friday, from our office in Leeds City Centre.

Some of our benefits include:

• Salary reflective of your experience, circa. £23,000 to £25,000
• 35 hours per week between Monday and Friday
• Earn up to 10% of your salary with our annual bonus scheme.
• Minimum of 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays per year increasing to 31 days with length of service, with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days holiday per year.
• Auto enrolled into the workplace pension scheme, and we'll contribute a minimum of 6% of your salary.
• 4x your annual salary in the event of a death in service.

Find out more about working at Walker Morris here.

Company Values

Our shared values represent our culture and the things that are important to us. They define who we are as a Firm, as an employer and what we expect of our people. They provide direction and purpose by influencing the decisions that we make and the actions that we take. It’s really important that all candidates and employees demonstrate these values in their day-to-day activities:

• Embrace the fact everyone is different and unique.
• You can be serious without wearing a suit.
• Never lose sight of the bigger picture.
• Two heads are better than one.
• Take the bull by the horns.
• We win & lose together.

Walker Morris is committed to being an inclusive employer. Our aim is to ensure our workforce represents our diverse society. We recognise that everyone brings their own unique capabilities and experiences to their work. We welcome applications regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, neuro diversity or disability status, family or parental status, race, religion or ethnicity.

We take great pride in being a Disability Confident Employer. If you need any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please don't hesitate to ask.

Click here to find out more about our diversity and inclusion work.

Type of Working

Office based