Business Support Administrator

I am currently recruiting for a Business Support Team Administrator on behalf of my client, a leading public sector organisation based in Leeds (LS1). 

As a Business Support Team Assistant Administrative, you’ll thrive on supporting the Highways depots, for the provision of administrative and clerical support to 3 Highways Depots (Seacroft, Pottery Fields, Henshaw) including payroll documentation for highways operatives, goods ordering, administration of the requirements of the Traffic Management Act.    

The Business Support Team carry out essential daily tasks to ensure our colleagues in the DLO’s can deliver against our statutory duties. An annual budget of £14M+ is spent on ongoing highway maintenance and repair, all these transactions will be processed through the Business Support Team.

Duties of the Business Support Administrator will include:

• Work with high levels of accuracy for tasks such as checking documents and recording numerical and alphabetical information.
• Manage own workload adhering to time scales and deadlines.
• Carry out general administrative duties.
• Abide by the Equality and Diversity and Health and Safety Policies.
• Understanding of legal business, financial audit, confidential and operational requirements of the service and the impact on its day-to-day work.
• Telephone enquiries. 

To be successful in this role, you will have: 

• Interpersonal and communications skills with a range of people including face-to-face, telephone and written communication skills. Including the process for dealing with varied information with a range of audiences.
• Ability to coordinate and prioritise tasks.
• Working with and within multiple teams of staff.
• Working on own initiative to adhere to timescales and deadlines.
• Knowledge of the applications, systems and IT programmes utilised by the service and being able to accurately record and retrieve information.
• Good numeracy and literacy skills and the ability to deal with complex tasks with support.
•  An understanding of the importance of providing excellent customer services

This role is full time, Monday- Thursday 7.30- 15.30, 7.30- 15.00 Friday. Pay rate is £11.59 per hour (PAYE).

Please apply today for a chance of an immediate interview! 

What Reed can offer you as a temporary employee:

• A dedicated consultant who will act as your key point of contact during and between any  bookings
• Secure & online time sheet system which is quick and easy to use
• A self-service portal to access holiday requests/ Payslips/ P45 at your own leisure 
• A dedicated payroll team 
• Access to free training
• Access to discount club/ healthcare/ reed rewards
• Pension /paid holiday scheme/ maternity benefits
• Contacts for other Reed consultants and divisions
• Opportunities to work with some of the UKs leading employers including local authorities, NHS and local SME's