
Office Administrator
- Lochgilphead, Argyll and Bute
- £29,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Main helpdesk telephone reception duties including taking telephone bookings for skip services and progressing them on a computerised booking system
- To deal with requests from new customers in a timely manner, ensuring all information is received and completed for both parties prior to the job commencing
- Liaise with customers to ensure service expectations are met, escalate as required
- Create and send out waste reports to customers on request
- Weekly reconciliation of skip and container vehicle duties to ensure monthly invoicing deadlines are met
- Management of Contract Data Archive including the Finance Archive to ensure legal and contractual compliance.
- Manage the production and maintenance of the Finance & Admin SOP
- Lead on the annual DOC documentation exercise
- To receive and distribute mail daily, to record incoming cheques and process credit card payments, to be responsible for all banking and outgoing mail
- Place orders on the online portals for consumables and other sundry purchases and review and reconcile purchasing card weekly
- Compile copies of the monthly records for the Argyll & Bute Contract annual reconciliation file
- Provide back up to the team for the raising of purchase orders on computerised system and follow through to goods receipting and dealing with invoice queries for purchases
- Support other office duties in the case of holiday/absence
- Recent and relevant administration experience
- Be able to work on own initiative and prioritise workload while also being an integral part of a small team
- Organisational, time management and communication skills, with the ability to communicate with Internal and External parties
- Attention to detail
- An excellent telephone manner
- Ability to build and maintain strong, cohesive working relationships inside and outside the business
- Computer literate user of Microsoft Office Applications (Word, Excel, and Outlook e-mail)
- Willingness to learn Biffa IT systems for which training will be given