Personal Assistant 9 Month FTC Leeds City Centre Salary £27,000

My award wining client is seeking an exceptional Personal Assistant to support the Head of Business located in Leeds City Centre. This is a great opportunity for someone who is seeking a new challenge in a fast paced and thriving office environment.

Personal Assistant key Responsibilities;

• Oversight, decision making and co-ordination of routine aspects of the role.
• Reconcile monthly spend against budget and proactively highlighting and resolving under/over-spends.
• Autonomy to manage, organise and attend a range of events including all Location meetings and Leadership meetings, including management development.
• Responsible for managing the sourcing of venues/ invites/logistics/content /budget.
• Manage and action emails as required by replying/escalating where necessary.
• Effective working relationship with the Operations Manager to ensure implementation of corporate projects are completed and implement to become business as usual.
• Attends all meetings to take minutes and ensure actions are followed up accordingly.
• Make travel and accommodation arrangements, ensuring efficient use of time and minimal expenditure.
• Develop a strategic awareness of the business issues and challenges within the Location.
• Representing the Head of Business on the telephone and by email.

Knowledge and experience needed for this role;

• Complex diary management, arranging travel and accommodation.
• Decision making on diary management and emails.
• Understanding of Recruitment and associated processes.
• Copy and audio typing at a fast speed and high standard.
• Scan documents for upload on to in house database.
• Coordination of workshops, including invites, attendee lists and refreshments.
• All post to be distributed upon receipt and prepared in time for the daily collections.
• Ordering of stationery and literature including some heavy lifting of stationary deliveries.
• Provide reception cover to meet the business requirements.
• To provide standard and ad hoc reports as required.

The ability to build strong relationships with others by delivering on promises, and by dealing effectively and courteously with queries is a must for this position as well as;

• Autonomy of workload to ensure that all work is prioritised effectively.
• Understand both corporate and location based objectives.
• Consistently strive to be the best you can be.
• Approach work positively with a can-do attitude and take responsibility for your tasks.
• Able to multi-task and work to deadlines, ensuring quality is never compromised.
• Deliver a first-class service in accordance with Office Admin standards.
• Demonstrate excellent communication skills, internally and externally.

For more information on this great opportunity please call Rebecca on 0161 240 7468 or email rebecca.garrity@robertwalters.com.