Senior Admin Assistant

Our local authority client based in West Yorkshire are urgently seeking an experienced Senior Admin Assistant.

£14.59 an hour PAYE

Responsibilities:

• Work with high levels of accuracy for tasks such as checking documents and recording numerical and alphabetical information.
• Identify problems and areas for improvement and offer solutions.
• Support staff and develop new team members.
• Use initiative and judgement where appropriate, providing outcomes and solutions for customers from a range of options.
• Work on your own, manage your own workload and use your initiative to adhere to time scales and deadlines.
• Carry out a range of administrative duties.
• Collate data and use it to produce reports.
• Understand legal business, financial, audit, confidential and operational requirements of the service, and the impact on its day-to-day work.

Skills Required

• Well-developed interpersonal and communication skills with a wide range of people including face-to-face, telephone and written communication skills. Including the processes for dealing with varied information with a range of audiences.
• Able to work with, and within, multiple teams of staff and contribute to its development with suggestions for new ways of working

Knowledge Required

• Knowledge of the applications, systems and IT programmes utilised by the service and being able to accurately record and retrieve information.

Experience Required

• Of working on your own and using your initiative to adhere to timescales and deadlines.
• Experience and understanding of the importance of providing excellent customer services
• Of dealing positively with challenging situations

Please apply with your updated CV ensuring that any gaps in employment are explained.

At this point, may we take this opportunity to thank you for the interest you have shown in this role. Unfortunately, due to the high volume of applications that we receive, it is not always possible to respond to everyone. Therefore, unless you hear from us within the next 7 days, your application for this vacancy will have been unsuccessful.