Company Description
The UK is facing a housing crisis, and not everyone has the means to enjoy the security and stability of owning their own home. Our aim at Legal & General Affordable Homes is to transform the affordable housing sector. With a fast-growing pipeline of over 80,000 homes, we’re committed to investing in housing for all ages, social groups and tenures. We’re collaborating with developers, housing associations and public sector bodies across the country to drive investment into the UK’s affordable housing and social housing sector. Focusing primarily on the affordable rent, shared ownership and rent-to-buy markets, we’re striving to be the UK’s leading private affordable housing provider, known for excellent service and quality homes. We want to have a positive economic and social impact on the regions and communities in which we work.
Legal & General Affordable Homes is a subsidiary of Legal & General Capital, which focuses on growth opportunities and scale ups, and invests its long-term capital in sectors in need of investment and innovation.
Job Description
To provide PA support to Directors and administrative support to their wider teams.
Liaise and coordinate with internal and external resources, work collaboratively with the other PAs and Administrators in the business to ensure a consistent and excellent level of service is always provided.
Work autonomously and independently with excellent attention to detail and a pro-active approach to their work.
Principal Accountabilities:
- Proactive Inbox management: monitoring, reading, forwarding, responding on their behalf as appropriate and implement a coherent filing system.
- Diary Management: first point of contact for all meetings, identify diary clashes and resolve them effectively.
- Administer travel and hotel bookings, allow adequate time to travel to/from meetings and update the diary with detailed itinerary.
- Plan and prepare for meetings collating papers, reports, committee packs, and agendas. Ensure meeting attendees are aware of their own action points from previous meetings so that any outstanding actions can be quickly addressed.
- Carry out a wide range of administrative duties across the allocated division e.g., Take accurate minutes to a high standard and circulate in a timely manner, initiating payment of invoices/expenses dealing with queries which subsequently arise.
- Maintain our internal CRM system to a high standard, managing electronic filing and archiving, keeping accurate and confidential records.
- Assist with planning and organisation of business events e.g., off-site meetings, workshops, training courses and company away days.
- Support with a wide range of H&S administration including but not limited to
- Liaising with external clients and management partners to obtain documentation, collate, and provide reports on a quarterly to annually basis.
- Keep staff records up to date for CBT (Computer Based Training) and Skillsgate training.
- Help to prepare for Audits and instil good practice.
- Work effectively with the wider business support team, providing cover during absence and periods of high workload to enable continuity of support. Assist with any administration need for the wider Executive Team as required by the PA’s and Business Support Manager.
Qualifications
- Educated to A level standard or higher.
- Experience working as a PA / Team administrator industry/commercial environment. Ideally with experience in Property and/or Financial Services sector.
- Good knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, particularly Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Excellent organisation and people management skills.
- Be First Aider and Fire Marshal trained or be willing to become both via training which will be provided by LGAH.
- Salesforce or similar CRM exposure is desirable.
Additional Information
When you commit to Legal & General, we’ll commit to you too. That means we’ll recognise and reward your hard work, your performance and your contribution.
If you join us, you’ll get access to some great benefits, including 25 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), a generous pension scheme and life assurance. You can participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice. We’re also proud to offer competitive family leave.
You’ll have the opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan. And then there are the many discounts we offer that you can take advantage of – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online offerings.
The brand with the brolly is choosing today to change tomorrow.
Since 1836, we’ve grown to become one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurance brands.
We’re all here to improve the lives of our customers, build a better society for the long term, and create value for our shareholders - helping to shape a better future for society and the planet.
We need people who share our ambitions, agility and entrepreneurial spirit to help us do it.
At L&G, you’ll find a balance that helps you be your best. Empowered by hybrid working, we’re supported by technology and workplaces that enable us to work effectively wherever we are. We come together in offices to collaborate and connect, and use time at home for individual, focused activities. And, when we achieve great things, we celebrate our success and reward strong performance.
Today, there’s over 10,000 of us, working towards our mission, with plenty of opportunities to grow your career as we grow L&G. Will you join us?
Great minds don’t have to think alike, so we welcome voices from all backgrounds. Bringing together people with different life experiences helps us build empathy with our customers and drive innovation.
We don’t just talk about it, we actively promote diversity and equitable opportunities for all. That means our employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or protected veteran status. In fact, we embrace every dimension of diversity to reflect the customers and communities we serve.
We think it’s important to create an inclusive environment where we can all belong, contribute and drive progress, where you can develop and grow, and be empowered. We want you to use your voice to help us build a better tomorrow.
We all work differently, and have different needs, which is why. we’re always open to discussing flexible working arrangements. Likewise, we’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs during our recruiting process.
So whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever your story, we'd love to hear from you.
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