Office Operations Manager and PA

Operations Admin Manager / PA, Full-time, Permanent, £38,000 - £40,000

Your new company

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic, fast-growing team that sits at the heart of a global marketing and advertising agency in their consulting arm of the business, based in the City . As Operations Admin Manager / PA you will report into the Managing Director and EMEA Consulting Principals. 60% of your time will be ensuring the operations for the Consulting team are efficient and effective. The other 40% you'll be an all-round superstar PA supporting 2 EMEA Consulting Principals. You will be heavily relied on in a fast-paced, hands-on team so your can-do attitude is a given.

Your new role

Operations Admin Manager duties:

• Raising POs and work with FinancePlus on issues relating to invoices / payments / budgets / vendors
• Working with London Finance to consolidate monthly expenditure
• Recon / tracking time on all live jobs (weekly, monthly, on completion)
• Document management and file sharing - making sure that all documents are downloaded and saved on the team's Sharepoint site
• Updating the weekly Opportunity Management Pipeline document
• Governance of job numbers and approving project time.

• Work with the Managing Director in resource planning
• Managing and updating Talent Pipeline and making sure we are GDPR compliant
• Processing Freelancers on YunoJuno and through TM
• Monitory all Freelancer contracts on YunoJuno
• Raising POs and approval of all invoices
• Assisting the Principals in recruiting freelancers when required
• Working with Talent Management to plan for secondments from other offices (travel, accommodation)

PA duties:

• Actively help manage diaries - understand client/agency structures, deal with diary conflicts based on seniority or importance of topics as discussed in advance with us.
• Liaise with senior client PAs and colleagues to arrange/change meetings etc.
• Support the broader team with occasional travel booking and ad hoc duties
• Expenses and timesheet support covering different countries and currencies
• Booking meeting rooms using our internal meeting room system Condeco
• Arrange couriers and taxi's / venues for special events / refreshments & catering internally & externally
• Arranging national and international travel, working with American Express Travel
• Assistance with PowerPoint / Keynote presentations for meetings
• Assistance in organising team events and meetings

What you'll need to succeed

• Mature in dealing with senior stakeholders
• Confident managing international travel arrangements
• Experienced at working across multiple time zones
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint and Keynote.
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Consulting experience at PA level, equally experience gained in a large client organisation is highly preferable
• Ad agency or media experience desirable
  

What you need to do now

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV ASAP, or call us now.

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