Debt Recovery Assistant

  • Gilson Gray LLP
  • Edinburgh, Midlothian
  • Apr 13, 2026
Full time Banking

Job Description

Gilson Gray's award winning Debt Recovery team is part of Gilson Gray's continuingly 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 Debt Recovery team have decades of experience in supporting their clients.

Based in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee, North Berwick, Lincoln and London we focus on ensuring we provide the highest level of advice and on-going service to our clients. We are ambitious and have significantly grown the team over the course of the last year. We pride ourselves in looking after our clients personally and providing the upmost standard of service.

This role would be based in our Edinburgh office.

Our Team

We are looking to hire a highly driven Debt Recovery Assistant to join our successful Debt Recovery department in Edinburgh.

We are an enthusiastic team that support each other in order to achieve a great working environment. We value each other's expertise and opinion and pride ourselves in 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 Debt Recovery Assistant at Gilson Gray you'll be responsible for:

  • Calling Gilson Gray clients in order to collect payments
  • Drafting and issuing pre-litigation demand letters and dealing with all responses to those
  • Raising court proceedings where necessary
  • Managing the court caseload under supervision from the solicitors in the team

Required Knowledge and Experience

  • Have some exposure to the credit control function
  • Have proficient IT skills and comfortable using the Microsoft suite of packages
  • Have some experience in litigation or case management systems/workflows