Funeral Administrator

Funeral Administrator

Location: Peterborough

At Smiths Funeral Directors, we are proud to work in a unique industry, helping people through a difficult time with care, compassion and respect. Every day we want to exceed our clients expectations and provide them with a faultless service from intial contact to all the way through the funeral process.

We are looking for a Funeral Administrator to join our growing team, working an average of 40 hours per week (plus additional hours where necessary). Previous administration experience is desirable, training will be given on our bespoke systems.

As a Funeral Administrator, we are looking for:

- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and the ability to respond in a caring and compassionate manner to families we come into contact with.
- Extremely strong administration and organisational skills and be able to spot spelling mistakes and other grammar errors.
- Good Computer literateracy, including MS office software suite (Outlook, Teams, Excel, Word). Being able to touch type and have a typing speed of over 50 WPM would be an advantage.
- You should be self-motivated to be able to work alone and with the ability to work productively as part of the wider team, being proactive in supporting our funeral Arranger Team.

Other Duties will include:
Completion of our relevant formal and legal paperwork, sending out letters to all parties to ensure the smooth delivery of each funeral, keepinging the office workspace clean and tidy, occasionally supporting Chapels of Rest, and providing admininstration support to designated Funeral Directors

Please contact us in confidence in the first instance, to discuss this opportunity.

Salary range from £20,000 - £24,000 depending on ability and experience

20 Days annual holiday (excluding Bank Holiday) increasing 1 day per year worked to 25 days max

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £20,648.00-£21,886.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- On-site parking

Schedule:

- Holidays
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

**Experience**:

- Customer Service: 1 year (required)

Work Location: One location

Reference ID: SFD/PPS/FAdmin/Oct22