Receptionist London, England
Job description
Receptionist – 1 year Fixed Term Contract
Monday to Friday - 10am-6pm
London – Chancery Lane
£30,000 - £35,000
A highly respected firm of Chartered Accountants seeks a Receptionist to join them on a 1 year fixed term contract.
As the Receptionist you will:
- Answering and placing all incoming calls to an announcement level specified by the partners
- Maintaining a daily list of all partners and staff out of the office
- Receiving visitors, making them welcome and comfortable, offering refreshments, informing hosts of their arrival and giving reminders to hosts as necessary
- Accepting and managing bookings for all meeting rooms, maintaining the electronic and paper booking system and liaising with post room over setting up rooms for furniture and refreshments
- Liaising with the cook over lunch bookings
- Arranging for the ordering of sandwiches as requested for meetings. Co-ordinating the room layout and provision of all necessary crockery and cutlery etc
- Arranging for couriers as requested by partners and staff, keeping a log of all orders placed and “chasing” the courier company if collection is not made
- Accepting deliveries from couriers and liaising with post room over distribution
- Monitoring all incoming and outgoing faxes, annotating them with distribution lists.
- Monitoring refreshment supplies and liaising with the Reception Manager over ordering of stock
- Checking all invoices relating to courier and catering services for accuracy and where applicable annotating them with client codes
You will be:
An experienced Receptionist with at least 5 years’ experience working within a Professional Services environment. As the Receptionist you must provide an efficient and friendly reception service to professionals at all levels. You will also:
- Provide high levels of in-house customer service that include politeness, responsiveness and problem solving
- Demonstrate flexibility – a willingness to work outside normal hours and to perform duties as required by the business
- Demonstrate a basic knowledge of data input techniques
- Deal with change in a positive manner, in particular, updated to equipment and procedures
- Be of a professional and neat appearance during working hours
PLEASE NOTE: We can only consider applications from candidates who have the right to work in the UK.
Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months
Salary: £30,000.00-£35,000.00 per year
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends
Experience:
- Reception: 4 years (preferred)
Work Location: In person
