Our client is looking for a Business Support for a contract position, located in London (Hybrid Working)
ROLE
The role is to ensure effective and efficient administrative support is provided to all functions / departments
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Provide efficient administrative Business Support to specific function / departments as required.
- Calendar management to senior leaders as required.
- Efficiently organise and coordinate meetings, which involves sending invitations, preparing agendas, distributing pre-read materials in advance, booking meeting rooms, conducting technology checks for Teams meetings, and diligently taking minutes while tracking action items.
- Support teams with highly visible external meetings where credibility is key, including investor meetings, banking meetings .
- Create and co-ordinate any required documentation, reports, and presentations to a high standard, ensuring accuracy of content and adherence to company brand standard prior to issue.
- Coordinating travel arrangements, accommodation, and offsite meetings/events in alignment with the Business Travel and Expense Procedure, including managing international travel logistics, visa procurement, and maintaining security awareness within the team.
- Support function/departments with time-writing, expenses in SAP Concur and any other ad hoc administrative requests.
- Support with finance activities including raising purchase requisitions in SAP S4 Hana, onboarding new vendors into Ariba and, liaising with accounts payable and suppliers to ensure timely payment.
- Act as friendly welcoming face and central point of contact to ensure that all new arrivals and departing staff are properly on boarded/off-boarded. Work closely with other functions to ensure that all appropriate equipment, desk management are in place to support your functions and accurately recorded all internal moves.
- Proactive and collaborative support to the wider administrative team when required, working closely together to ensure that all teams receive an approachable, professional, high quality, seamless Business Support service.
- Any other reasonable duty as per instruction by your manager.
REQUIREMENTS
- Demonstrate previous experience in similar role within UK.
- Proficient in working with Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Outlook and Teams
- Strong standards of professionalism and customer service.
- Must have the highest level of ethics, good judgment and common sense and awareness of confidentiality.
- Must thrive in challenging situations but can maintain a positive, pro-active attitude
- Confident in engagement with senior management.
- Solid communication and relationship building skills with ability to form strong and trusting working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.