Food & Farming Assistant

2 days ago


Guernsey, United Kingdom Savills Full time

**Role Overview**

An opening has arisen for a Food & Farming Assistant to support a dynamic, exciting and busy Food & Farming Management & Consultancy team. The team provides core management and consultancy services in the rural, agricultural sectors across Scotland. With a unique and varied workload, the role requires someone proactive and who wishes to make a difference to the team. We are also advertising for a Valuation Assistant in our Professional Consultancy team which combined could make this a full-time role.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Provide day to day administrative support to the team in managing our Food & Farming Management client portfolios.
- Maintain management database with contract farming agreements and compliance data.
- Creating and maintaining electronic files and records in Dynamics CRM
- Arranging diary invites and facilitating meeting arrangements
- General administration, management meeting preparation and following up meeting actions
- Complete, circulate and track documents, licence agreements, sale of standing crop agreements and contract farming agreements.
- Preparation and submission of land maintenance, entitlement transfer, AECS capital claims and agricultural census forms
- Prepare financial budgets and cash flows, monitoring forecast against actual income and expenditure
- Preparation of annual contract farming management reports

**Key Skills**
- Agricultural Management experience (desirable but not essential)
- Subsidy knowledge and experience (desirable but not essential)
- Excellent IT skills using MS Office package especially Excel & Word
- Good communication, organisational and interpersonal skills
- Working within a team but able to take responsibility and undertake work on own initiative
- Strong attention to detail and able to work to deadlines and prioritise tasks. Financially literate - business and profit focussed

**Team Overview**

The Food & Farming team in Perth is a fast-paced department made up of 2 Directors, 1 Associate, 1 Consultant, 1 Graduate and a part-time admin support within a multi-disciplined office of 60 staff.

The role would suit someone able to work at a fast accurate pace, and is also able to provide an effective support role.

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