Cavendish
Operations & Compliance Administrator
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Operations & Compliance Administrator
Location
Southampton
Job Type
Permanent
Hours
Full time 37.5 hours
About Us
Cavendish is all about talented people, delivering excellent results for our clients. We are a multi-award-winning, PR Week Top 150 communications consultancy, ranked No 1 in PR Week’s UK Public Affairs consultancy rankings and recognised at PRCA National Awards 2025 as Large Consultancy of the Year.
Across our 12 strategically located UK and Ireland offices, Cavendish brings together industry-specialist communications to provide integrated solutions for clients and limitless development opportunities for our people.
We believe in sourcing talent from diverse backgrounds, nurturing a company culture that leads to a strong work life balance, and strengthening it by providing great learning and development opportunities.
What You Will Get from Us
You’ll have the opportunity to take your career to the next level, working with dynamic, talented people in a fast paced and expanding organisation. Alongside a competitive salary, we provide extensive training and development opportunities and an industry leading benefits package including:
- A flexible, hybrid working model
- Access to mentorship from some of the best minds in the industry
- Industry leading allocation of paid time off
- Geographical flexibility across our regional offices
- Private Medical Insurance
- Regular social and teambuilding events
- Paid time off to volunteer for a charity
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What We Are Looking For
- Strong technical ability in O365 including Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Well-organised with the ability to multi-task.
- Ability to balance immediate and long-term needs of the business through planning and prioritisation of work.
- Extremely detail orientated.
- Previous experience in a business administration or compliance role.
What You’ll Need to Do
This is a varied role that would suit someone who enjoys working across different areas of the business, keeping records accurate, supporting audits, coordinating key activities and helping colleagues stay organised and compliant. Your specific duties will include:
- Supporting compliance and quality processes across the company.
- Assisting with policies and procedures.
- Audit coordination and compliance tracking.
- Helping maintain key operational records.
- Supporting external mailing suppliers and Royal Mail processes where required.
- Supporting Cavendish’s environmental activity including environmental reporting, tracking emissions data and assisting with impact assessments.
- Health and safety administration including keeping logs for fire wardens and first aiders, booking annual training, tracking first aid kits and making sure risk assessments are up to date.
- Office management support across Cavendish.
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Equal Opportunities
Our vision is to be a truly diverse and inclusive workplace that enables us to attract and retain a diverse workforce, representative of our clients and community. For this reason, we welcome applications from candidates regardless of qualifications and experience in industry and from all persons, regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age.
Everyone stands to benefit when we embrace and value the diversity of thoughts, ideas, and ways of working that people from different backgrounds, experiences and identities bring to an organisation.
We are a disability confident employer. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the application and interview stages, please email peopleteam@cavendishconsulting.com.
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