Secretary

Your new company
An Accountancy Firm is looking for an experienced secretary to join their team based in Milton Keynes on a permanent basis!

Your new role

• Providing day-to-day secretarial and administrative support to partners, directors and departments.
• Assisting with the smooth running of the Milton Keynes office.
• Diary management including arranging and confirming meetings and arranging catering as required.
• Completion of client take on documentation and complying with AML procedures.
• Scanning and franking of all outgoing post on a daily basis.
• Preparing Excel workbooks for tax working papers using templates.
• Maintaining online technical library and circulating links to weekly updates.
• Providing cover for reception and switchboard as required.
• Assisting with preparation of quarterly partner reports.
• Monitoring partners' emails and forwarding where relevant.
• Co-ordinating training courses for professional staff as arranged through HR/training managers.
• Charity/Marketing Champion.
• Drafting periodic correspondence such as tax return information requests and payment reminders from templates.
• CRM reporting and updating.
• Administration of fee protection insurance in Milton Keynes.

What you'll need to succeed

• Minimum 5 GCSEs at grade A-C
• Able to deal confidently and effectively with clients, staff and partners
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Able to adapt communication style to draft correspondence to different partner's 'voice'
• Self-reliant and proactive working style, able to use own initiative
• Must be able to multitask
• Strong organisation and prioritisation skills

What you'll get in return
25 days pro rata
Pension

Life Assurance 4x


What you need to do now
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