Position: Personal Assistant (Maternity Cover)

Location: Borehamwood Hertfordshire

Term: Fisxed Term Contract

Salary: Competitive salary with excellent benefits

About Us

Sopher + Co is a place where you can drive your career and ambitions forward, sharing and promoting our commitment to excellent client experience. We take an individual approach to our talent and work together to reach mutual goals, whilst building a truly diverse, equal, proud and happy workplace. Our engaged and committed teams of professionals will assist you with achieving your career goals in an atmosphere of respect, understanding and full support.

The Role

We are looking for an experienced Personal Assistant (Maternity Cover) to provide full day to day support to Senior Partner at our Borehamwood office. This is a busy and varied role which requires relevant previous experience, ideally within Practice or Professional Services organisation.

Other duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Acting as a first point of contact, dealing with correspondence and proactively managing emails on a daily basis
• Screening phone calls, enquiries and requests, and handling them when appropriate
• Managing diaries and organising meetings and appointments
• Booking and arranging travel, transport and accommodation
• Producing documents, briefing papers, reports, PowerPoint presentations for training sessions and correspondence
• Financial support, including running WIP reports, raising invoices and updating the tax groups annual billing schedule
• Filing personal tax returns and CT600s together with checking HMRC notices and printing out HMRC accounts

About You

We are looking for people who embrace the 3 C’s – Change, Challenge and Commitment. We enjoy working with people who can work well with others and in turn enjoy working amongst a diverse team of professionals

Naturally you will be able to offer and demonstrate previous PA/EA experience, ideally within an accountancy firm. You will be confident in working to a high standard, have excellent communication skills and a flexible approach to your work. Ideally you will also have/be:

• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook 
• Proactive, robust and self-motivated, with a drive for ideas, suggestions and improvements
• Ability to manage own workload
• Excellent time management skills and the ability to prioritise work
• Attention to detail and problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to multi-task

In addition to the above successful candidate will be organised and commercially minded, displaying a level of flexibility, professionalism, confidence and ability to build successful relationships through trust and credibility.  

Benefits

We will offer you a competitive package, including extensive benefits for you and your family, a comfortable warm and friendly environment with great people and the chance to work with some of the most prestigious clients that no other family-based firm can offer. Sopher + Co strongly believe in staff development and continuously encourage internal progression.

Sopher + Co is committed to the principle of equality of opportunity in employment and we expect all our employees to act in accordance with this policy, we recognise the key role it plays in the success of our business.