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Job Title: PA to Director Contract Type: Flexible options available Salary Range: Circa £35,000 DOE PA to Director:We are seeking a highly organised and professional Personal Assistant to provide support to one of our UKET members. In this role, you will play a crucial part in ensuring the smooth operation of the transformation team and contribute to the success of our strategic initiatives. Main Responsibilities: Receive and deal with written and verbal queries/correspondence emanating from both inside and outside Ageas, involving a Director/Manager as appropriate. These will include contact with senior personnel of major clients, customers and journalists. Devising and maintaining office systems, including data management and filing. This will include being resource point of contract for departmental organisational charts, contact lists, holiday charts and non-confidential personnel information. Producing documents, briefing papers, reports and presentations. Ensuring that with knowledge of Director's upcoming meetings, relevant papers are obtained from the teams prior to the meetings (with time for the Director to review). Screening telephone calls, enquiries and requests and handling them appropriately. This will include liaising with various Departments/Teams, having knowledge of other Directors whereabouts or teams. Maintain central information, inboxes, diary systems and files for Directors and Managers. Working heavily with other Directors PA's as well as external companies to ensure diaries are maintained and organised effectively. Learning which meetings take precedent when there are conflicts. Prepare reports and/or letters based on notes and instructions from the Directors Organising and attending meetings and where appropriate providing dictation and minutes. Covering for other PA's during period of holidays or absence. Skills and experience: Strong planning and organisational skills with the ability to handle multiple priorities while remaining calm under pressure. Problem solving - ability to use own initiative and propose solutions. Proactive and capable of initiating various activities. Assertive, proactive and forthcoming in asking questions/seeking clarification. Ability to build strong working relationships with all levels of personnel within the business. Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to adapt the tone/style to match the audience/circumstances. Ability to produce high quality documentation within tight timescales. Excellent tact and diplomacy skills, as position requires post holder to handle a wide range of situations and personalities. Strong influencing skills as post holder is often required to handle a number of conflicting priorities whilst managing the expectations of others. Experience of working at Senior Management level in a rapidly changing environment. Extensive PC package skills including MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Visio and MS Outlook for e-mail management. Excellent layout and documentation presentation skills. Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy: At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve, Top Employer status in the UK. Flexible Working - Smart Working @ Ageasgives employees flexibility around location (as long as it's within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part-time/job-shares . We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days. Supporting your Health - Dental Insurance Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders. Supporting your Wealth - Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans. Supporting you and your Family - Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks' at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co-adopter at 8 weeks' full pay. Benefits for Them - Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover About Ageas:We're one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK. As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We're a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter, a Stonewall diversity champion and a Disability Confident Employer (which means interviews are guaranteed for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum role criteria). For more information please see Ageas Everyone. Most roles across Ageas allow a proportion of your time to be spent working from home and we're open to discussing flexible working, including full-time, part-time or job share arrangements. To find out more about Ageas, see About Us. Want to be part of a Winning Team? Come and join Ageas.
We are looking for a new Management Accountant to join our team. Do you possess robust expertise in accountancy, the kind that knows the ins and outs, the topsy-turvy, and every twist and turn? Do you love pivot tables and vlookups? (we do too!) Are you part or fully qualified ACCA/CIMA/ACA qualified? (We're not fussy) If so, we might be perfect for each other! Role Info: Management Accountant - Fixed 12 Month Maternity Cover Southampton Office Based / Home Working 2 Days Per Week £35,000 Plus Excellent Benefits Package Values: Innovative, Collaborative, Courageous, Transparent, Resilient Service: Global integrated creative marketing agency, helping brands become memorable and buyable - from planning through to execution. Clients: Iconic brands such as Activision, B&Q, Epic Games, B&Q and Screwfix. Pedigree: A Sunday Times Best Place to Work 2023 Offices in: London, Southampton, Los Angeles, Sydney Your Skills: Accountancy, VAT, Budgeting, Forecasting, Excel, Finance Systems, ACCA/CIMA/ACA The Management Accountant Opportunity: The Finance team works alongside other Group Services functions, such as IT, HR and Reception to assist the agencies at all levels in a pragmatic, approachable and client-first manner. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a hardworking, family run company, which is not your usual office environment (we don't really do corporate!). We offer the opportunity to work and develop in a friendly and fun environment. This is a role that requires you to get stuck in and hit the ground running, supporting the core functions of the Finance department and contributing to the continued improvement of the commercial health and performance of the business. This will involve working closely with key stakeholders within the agencies so strong relationship building and communication skills are key. You'll have the confidence to own the full P&L and balance sheet for one of our UK agencies along with the LA office. As well as leading/following up on balance sheet actions, including resolving reconciling items and streamlining processes for better financial control and visibility. About You: Part or fully qualified (ACCA/CIMA/ACA - we're not that fussy) with a few years' experience of management accounts production under your belt Strong knowledge on producing monthly management accounts (including income reviews, processing journals and variance analysis) VAT knowledge to produce quarterly reconciliations and returns Previous experience in budgeting, forecasting and production of management and commercial account packs An expert at Excel and finance systems (ideally Paprika) What's in it for you? We are offering a competitive salary and benefits package which includes 25 days holiday plus bank holiday entitlement with the opportunity to buy more. Private health care (medical history disregarded), health cash plan, pension scheme with rising employer contributions with length of service along with professional development opportunities, family friendly policies and even a free bar! Our flexible working policy means whilst you will have an office base (Southampton) you can choose where you work and when. Whether it is one of the offices or from home. We ask all our employees to attend the offices 3 days per week where possible and for specific meetings where we like to get everyone together. Your working day can be flexible around your needs with core hours from 10am to 4pm. If you believe you've got what it takes and want to work with some great people and amazing clients, we want to hear from you! About us: Five by Five is an independent, creative and innovation agency. We exist to solve client problems and breathe new life into brands by developing five by five communications. We are passionate about delivering award worthy and profitable campaigns for our clients. We have offices in Southampton, London, Los Angeles and Sydney, employing over 90 people. We work across multiple sectors and are proud to have long standing relationships with clients such as Activision, Epic Games B&Q and Screwfix. At Five by Five we're committed to building a team as diverse as the audiences we produce work for. We encourage applications from all backgrounds, communities and identities and are committed to creating an agency full of diverse skills, experiences and abilities. We are an equal opportunities employer. We recruit on merit. Your talent, skill and passion is why you'll get the job. Sounds like a good fit? Apply here for a fast-track path to our Hiring Team. Application notice... We take your privacy seriously. As you might expect you may be contacted by email, text or telephone. Your data is processed by our talent partner Recruitment Revolution on the basis of their legitimate interests in fulfilling the recruitment process. Please refer to their Data Privacy Policy & Notice on their website for further details.