Operations Administrator

**Location**: Derby or Nottingham or Birmingham

**Contract**: Full-time

**Salary**: Dependant on experience

Are you an experienced administrator looking at progressing onto a new exciting opportunity?

This position will be crucial to our firm's ambitious goal of doubling in size within the next five years. If you're looking to join a company where your contributions can truly make a difference, this is an ideal opportunity for you

This role is ideal for an experienced administrator who wants to make a significant impact in a rapidly growing firm, and who has proven experience working with external providers and internal stakeholders and leadership teams.

With so many elements to this role, every day will be different You will report directly to the Operations Partner, who began her career here at PKF Smith Cooper as a graduate

This role can be based out of any of our offices but travel to other offices will be required.

**The important work you will be doing**:

- Management of contracts and renewals
- Support the firm on regulatory deadlines and play a key part in keeping the firm compliant
- Building relationships with external providers
- Supporting board meetings and following up on actions
- Partnering with and supporting senior stakeholders
- Project support

**The skills and experience you will bring**:

- A minimum of 2 years in an administrative role
- Good communicator
- Strong organisational skills
- An ambitious and inquisitive nature with strong problem-solving skills and the ability to use own initiative
- Proficiency in using MS Office programs is essential
- Commercial acumen

**Why PKF Smith Cooper?**:

- Our company culture, built on our values - Engage, Empower and Excel - encourages initiative, personal growth, and collaboration. Every team member is appreciated and celebrated; a notion embodied in our Kudos Reward Scheme.
- The firm’s Partners, who remain actively invested in the development of employees, will both support and champion your professional development and progression.
- We work with ambitious businesses of different sizes across a variety of sectors, so no two jobs are the same.
- We are multi-award-winning accountants and business advisors, ranked the 12th biggest firm by UK fee income in the Accountancy Age Top 50+50.

**PKF International***:
As an active member of PKF International, we are part of a large global network of legally independent accounting firms.

Located in the 5 fastest growing global markets, we have ground presence in 150 countries and span across many jurisdictions.

An ambitious, future-focused network, PKF provides a comprehensive range of services. Operating in unison with member firms across the world, we are able to share our ideas, expertise, and specialist resources to better serve our clients, delivering highly-personalised services and global connectivity through our client-centric culture.

**What's in it for you?**:
Our benefits package has been designed around our people and shaped by our values. As part of Team PKF Smith Cooper, here are some of the things you can expect:

- Time to do what matters to you - 25 days annual leave plus statutory bank holidays, the option to reduce annual hours for additional annual leave, and your birthday off, on us. Long-serving employees can also request a sabbatical, giving you the chance to make truly unforgettable memories
- Rewards for those who actively embrace and embody our values and culture through our Kudos Reward Scheme
- Regular social events and annual, company-wide away days, giving you the opportunity to engage with colleagues across your division and office, as well as the wider firm
- Bonus referral schemes for introducing new talent or clients so that when we benefit, you do too
- Life doesn’t stop at the end of the working day and neither do our benefits. We also offer life assurance, discounts on a huge variety of retailers through the PKF Smith Cooper Rewards Scheme, and cashback on healthcare (including dental visits, physiotherapy etc) through Healthshield

**How to apply?**:
Please no agencies unless we have contacted you directly.