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A market leading financial client based in London require an accomplished Admin Assistant to join them for an exciting and challenging engagement.
For this opportunity you will be an employee of ourselves working on site with the client while being rewarded with a strong salary, holidays, pension, certification opportunities and more!
Job Title: Admin Assistant
Duration: 6 months fixed term assignment
Location: London (on site only)
Start: Immediately
Salary: Circa £38k/ Annum extensive benefits (as below)
Experience and Skills required:
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Proven ability of dealing with staff and clients
- Strong planning and interpersonal skills
- Proactive with strong attention to detail and excellent organisational skills
- Strong work ethics, reliability and discretion.
- Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information.
- Advanced Excel, PowerPoint and Word skills
- Ability to multitask and work under pressure.
- Flexible with strong initiative and willing to work in a team environment.
- Professional appearance and presentation skills
- Highly organized and punctual
- Problem solving capacity.
Responsibilities:
- Diary management and planning which involves working closely and proactively with internal/external senior personal assistants.
- Ensure the team members have all necessary papers/are briefed ahead of meetings.
- Organize international travel including booking flights, transfers, accommodation, meetings and dinners and managing the itinerary to ensure that overseas offices and external parties are kept aware of changes to the schedule.
- Organising client entertainment and conferences
- Liaising internally with management team and compliance to ensure all pre-approvals are granted on time and in adherence to Bank policies and protocol.
- Provide full secretarial cover including scanning, printing, telephone cover, raising technology/facilities requests.
- Handling expenses using Concur System.
- Processing vendor invoices, ensuring they are coded against the correct cost centre.
- "Onboarding" new joiners in the team - ensuring the workplace and systems are set up as required**.**
**Ajilon Consultant**
You will be an integral part of Ajilon (Adecco), a FTSE500 Global organisation with over 52 clients and sole supplier to the biggest organisations in the country and the world. You will be employed by ourselves as an Ajilon Consultant working onsite with our client where you will receive a regular salary, annual bonus payment, pension contributions, holiday and sick pay, plus a number of additional benefits such as medical insurance, income protection, critical illness and life insurance, access to our discounted benefits website and library of online training materials and future career and certification opportunities.
This great opportunity is being offered on a PAYE basis which means a LTD/Umbrella company cannot be used.
If you think you have the experience and you would like to become an employee of this fast growing business unit within Ajilon please apply with your CV right now for swift consideration!