VWA Ltd
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Receptionist
12-Month Maternity Cover
Private Equity
West End
Salary: c. 35K depending on experience
Location: Fully office-based
Start date: late October/early November
Hours: 3-Rec/RvFLW
The Client
A private equity firm based in the heart of the West End. Headcount in London is just under 100, with a highly collaborative, friendly and international work environment. This is a busy office and Receptionist role, so the successful person will be enthusiastic, proactive and able to act as the office lynchpin!
The Receptionist Role
- Meeting and greeting all visitors, confirming the purpose of each visit, escorting guests to their meeting room and offering refreshments
- Managing bookings and diaries across all seven meeting rooms, resolving conflicts, and making sure rooms are clean, tidy and properly prepared ahead of meetings
- Issuing and managing passes for new joiners and leavers via their in-house system and keeping track of spare and lost passes
- Processing and uploading supplier invoices and maintaining accurate records
- Coordinating day-to-day supplier relationships, including the weekly team lunch catering, recycling, printer servicing and other office equipment
- Managing the relationship with the office cleaner, monitoring standards, and keeping cleaning supplies stocked
- Keeping the kitchen areas across both floors stocked and presentable
- Ad hoc duties – this is a role that keeps you on your feet and thinking quickly, plus reporting and following up on maintenance issues.
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Required Skills and Experience
- Excellent customer service and interpersonal skills, with a professional, friendly and approachable manner
- Ideally, some prior corporate office experience in a front of hours capacity however adjacent customer-facing experience will be considered (e.g. Cabin Crew, high-end hospitality)
- Proactive, adaptable and high energy – able to identify what needs doing without always waiting for direction
- Strong organisational skills, particularly around diary and meeting-room management, and comfortable with basic administrative/financial-processing tasks
- Confident communicating with senior stakeholders, visitors, suppliers and contractors
- Reliable and discreet, with strong ownership and follow-through
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Additional Details
- Lovely Receptionist opportunity to join a genuinely friendly team!
- Core hours 8:30am – 5:30pm
- Able to commit to the late October/early November start for a full month of handover training – please note December is a key period for the business, so this would not suit someone with significant time off already booked over the festive period
- Salary up to c.35K depending on experience
If you are looking for a Receptionist opportunity and have the relevant skills to apply, please get in touch today!
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