Senior Administrator

Package

• £22,000 - £26,000 PA
• Spacious, pleasant offices
• 4 weeks annual leave
• Quarterly bonus scheme
• Career path to management
  

About us

Digital Mail Limited is a rapidly growing telecommunications operator situated in the City, Old Street.

DML have bright people who are working on innovated ground breaking projects. We need someone to administer them, shepherding the successes to completion and alerting us to ones that won’t succeed. Our vision is to partner our large distribution base with technology suppliers to build our business.

We are looking for a highly organised individual to help run our purchase and sales ledgers as well as assisting in office management, PA and HR functions.

This position would be ideal for an experienced small company acounts administrator who would like to broaden their skills to progress his / her career path up the management chain (leading to a management role). We are supportive of Continuing Professional Development (e.g. courses such as CIMA, Birkbeck College, etc)

About you

• Got about as far as you can go in accounts?
• Mature nature (doesn't necessarily mean that you must be old!)
• Accuracy and reliability is second nature
• Want a new challenge
• Want a path to middle management
• Have a healthy cynicism and suspicion of things that can go wrong
  

Furthermore:

• You don't handle problems, you avoid them in the first place
• Results are what it's about
• You like setting up systems to replace some of the chaos and rubbish that you find

You want:

• To make a significant contribution to an ambitious and developing company
• To have a variety of activities in your working day
• The flexibility of a small company 
  

About the job

The career path:

• Increasing responsibility, as you gain knowledge and proficiency
• Management of external contractor projects
• Creation of improved systems
• Significant role in a small company with an extended partner base

Composition:

50% Accounts

• Purchase Ledger
• Sales Ledger
• Cash planning
• Bank reconciliation
• Payroll
• Meetings, assessment and plan revision
• High level management reporting

25% Office Management

• Staff attendance/holiday/sick leave
• Office environment
• Key supplier/Partner management
  
• Staff entertainment/recreation

15% HR assistance

• Administrative assistance during recruitment projects
  
• Management of staff development

10% PA for the MD

• Some project assistance work
• Diary management
• Filing
• Correspondance/Memos/Minutes
• Commercial research

Skills / Experience

Accounts experience:

• At least 6 months experience of Sales/Purchase Ledger
• Ideally also capable of performing Bank Rec's

You are a good systems person:

• Highly numerate and articulate
• Power computer user
• Microsoft Excel formulae/functions/formatting/templates are easy (you will be tested on this)
• You are competent with Microsoft Word 
• You can touch type to around 40 wpm
  
• You may well have created small Access (or similar) applications
• Internet Savvy (email, IM, etc)

IMPORTANT: You must have a valid work permit / visa. English must be your first language, and you must speak English fluently.

To apply for the job

Please e-mail us your CV and covering letter indicating:

1. Your previous PA (project management - if applicable) experience and why you think you would be suitable for this job.
2. Your availability and salary expectation range
3. Pay particular attention to our general applicant guidelines 

Please send replies to:

Quote subj: SenAdm-Apr08

Our application procedure

1. Analyse applicants, CVs and letters
2. Short telemeeting (15-30mins)
3. Face-to-face interview (2hrs)
4. Offer

If you haven't heard from us within 2 weeks after sending your CV, your application wasn’t successful.

STRICTLY NO AGENCIES AND NO PHONE CALLS.