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Receptionist - London

1 year Fixed Term Contract

Monday to Friday - 10am-6pm

£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

Benefits:

• Company pension

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• Corporate Reception: 4 years (required)

Work Location: In person