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Salary: £35,000 - £40,000 Location: Wilmslow Contract Type: Permanent Hours: Full-time, Monday to Friday Join a vibrant and rapidly expanding online business, with a thriving global community of over one million members. This company is at the forefront of innovation, and they're seeking an experienced and proactive Executive Assistant to support the company's founder. You will provide high-level administrative support, manage workflows, and ensure that the founder's schedule and priorities align effectively. You will act as a critical liaison, handling communications and operational tasks to optimise the founder's productivity and organisational efficiency. You will have exceptional organisational skills and a proactive mindset; you'll enjoy working in a fast-paced environment and will thrive working within a collaborative company, where creativity and innovation are celebrated. Key Responsibilities as an Executive Assistant: Diary Management: Coordinate and manage the founder's schedule, including meetings, appointments, and events, to ensure optimal time utilisation. Communication Liaison: Handle correspondence on behalf of the founder, including emails, phone calls, and enquiries, slack messages - ensuring timely and professional responses. Meeting Coordination: Organise and prepare materials for meetings, take notes, and follow up on action items to ensure efficient outcomes. Travel Arrangements: Arrange travel logistics, including booking flights, accommodations, and transportation, for the founder's business trips and events. Event Planning: Assist in planning and coordinating community events, meetups, and conferences. Document Management: Organise and maintain important documents, presentations, and files, ensuring they are easily accessible and up to date. Project Support: Provide support on special projects or initiatives, assisting in research, data analysis, and project coordination. Personal Branding Brand Building: Support the founder with personal branding activities and also helping push through personal projects e.g. liaising with publishers. Financial Administration: Assist with expense reporting and tracking. Team Collaboration: Work together with team members to set/track goals and manage budgets effectively. Confidentiality: Maintain confidentiality by handling sensitive information with professionalism and integrity. General Administrative Support: Handle various administrative tasks related to work and personal projects. The ideal person will have the following qualities: Previous experience in a similar role, ideally in a lively and fast-paced environment. A mature and flexible mindset, able to handle lots of different duties at once and anticipate the Founder's needs. Experience within an online or tech business would be beneficial. Good with technology, including knowing your way around Slack, G Suite, Asana, Notion and can pick up tech platforms easily. Great at communicating, both in writing and speaking, and comfortable talking to people at all levels. Proven ability to get things done and make things better over time. A proactive problem-solver, with a sharp eye for detail and accuracy. Willing to be flexible with your time, sometimes working evenings or weekends to help out with the Founder's goals. Loves using their initiative and expertise to help improve processes, organisation and systems. Confidence to share ideas, speak up and lead.
Cheshire Based Cutting Edge Technology Organisation Private Equity Funded OTTO JAMES CONSULTING Finance & Accounting have been selected as an exclusive recruitment partner to one of the UKs fastest growing tech organisations, as they look to recruit a talented Finance Director to report directly into the Board and help drive commercial growth. Our Cheshire based client is excited to come to the market and recruit a role which will give the successful applicant, a broad and commercially challenging role which will make this a career defining move, into an organisation which had a great 2023, a fantastic project for 2024 The Role My client is looking for a highly commercial Finance Director who will marry up the FP&A function while also Finance Business Partnering the sales and operations teams around Budget v's Spend, Target to Actual, etc. You will also support stakeholders across Marketing, Sales and Creativity teams. This is a true interface role, where you will enjoy full autonomy in the commercial engagement of Finance, while managing the full portfolio budgets. Revenues, cash management and return on investment are key in this role, and you will enjoy an integral part of the senior management team, as they look to marry up all and reinvest. Area's which you will support the business include: Budgeting and Forecasting for 2024 forward 3 & 5 year plans for future trends Cost rationalisation and Budgeting Business Strategy - Identifying area's of growth through organic and acquisition Appraisal and Analysis of Commercial Contracts Growth is key to my client, and they are looking for a finance professional, who will help to drive the business to achieve their goals. Your Profile Qualified Accountant, ACA, CIMA or ACCA Excellent Communication skills and experience of working in a highly communicative environment. Experience of tailoring financial information to specific audience will be of real benefit. Salary & Benefits £85,000 - £96,000 Salary Generous Bonus Hybrid & flexible working (2 days work from home) 25 days annual leave BH Private medical cover Life insurance