Receptionist Liverpool, England
Job description
We're one of the UK's leading investment management companies, with responsibility for over £44 billion of client assets. We've worked closely with clients and their trusted advisers for many years and gained a unique understanding of the specific needs of our clients.
Investec Wealth & Investment seeks to deliver exceptional levels of customer service and has been trusted to meet the needs of private investors for almost 200 years. But our eyes are focused on your future.
Right now we're a team of over 1400 dedicated professionals located across 14 sites in the UK. We're looking to strengthen our team and need you to come on board and make a difference.
Embedded in our culture is a sense of belonging and inclusion. This creates an environment in which everyone is free to be themselves which helps to drive innovation, creativity and ultimately business performance. At Investec we want everyone to find it easy to be themselves, and to feel they belong. It's a responsibility we all share and is integral to our purpose and values as an organisation.
Research shows that some candidates can be reluctant to apply to a role unless they meet all the criteria. We pride ourselves on our entrepreneurial spirit here and welcome you to do the same – if the role excites you, please don't let our person specification hold you back. Get in touch!
Receptionist - 1 month FTC - Immediate Start
Description of role and key responsibilities:
Core Responsibilities:
- Create a welcoming environment
- Log arriving visitor/s on our system
- Offer refreshments to visitor/s while waiting and/or in the meeting room
- Advise hosts/bookers of visitor arrival
Meeting rooms:
- Escort visitor/s to meeting rooms, engaging in conversation
- Regularly check all meeting rooms are clean, tidy and contain correct crockery, stationery etc.
Call answering:
- Answer and direct phone calls in a professional, friendly, polite and timely manner, take messages where necessary
Other duties:
- Book meeting rooms for both internal and external meetings via e-mail, Teams, phone and in person
- Booking taxis as required
PC Literate:
- Good understanding of Manhattan meeting room system, training given if necessary
- Good understanding of Cisco Jabber call answering system, training given if necessary
- Microsoft office packages
- Attention to detail
- Flexible – shifts may alter and duties may change
- Team player
- Personable
- Approachable
- Willingness to learn
- Works well and remains calm under pressure
- Ability to use own initiative
- Good clear communication skills
- Proactive and can do attitude
- Ability to multi task and complete tasks