Secretary Or Pa (Personal Asistant)

Qualifications & experience

• Proven work experience as a Personal Assistant
• Outstanding organisational and time management skills
• Ability to multitask and prioritize daily workload
• Up-to-date with latest office gadgets and applications
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Discretion and confidentiality

Tasks & responsibilities

• reminding the manager of important tasks and deadlines
• typing, compiling and preparing reports, presentations and correspondence
• managing databases and filing systems
• miscellaneous tasks to support their manager, which will vary according to the sector and to the manager’s remit, eg completing some corporate governance reporting (to ensure that the business is being run properly and complying with legislation and regulations) or conducting research
• acting as a first point of contact for callers, dealing with emails and phone calls by responding, passing on messages or highlighting them for their manager’s attention
• managing diaries and organising meetings and appointments, often controlling access to the manager/executive