Business Support Officer

Job Title: Administration/Business Support Officer

Job Overview: We are seeking a dedicated and experienced Administration/Business Support Officer to join our team and provide essential support to our service/directorate. The successful candidate will undertake a variety of administrative tasks and assist in working towards the objectives of the service area. This role requires both general business support and specialized duties, encompassing tasks such as record maintenance, financial processing, IT tasks, and team assistance.

Key Responsibilities:

General Business Support:
· Assist in organizing and providing business support, including maintaining records, organizing meetings, and responding to queries.
· Manage office systems, equipment, and consumables in accordance with purchasing procedures.
· Maintain manual and computerized records/management information systems, ensuring accuracy and consistency.
· Provide advice, guidance, and signposting on internal policies/procedures and external regulations/legislation.
· Undertake complex IT tasks as required.

Specialist Duties:
· Demonstrate duties to less experienced employees and contribute to their training and development.
· Handle financial processing activities, including monitoring budgets, processing orders, and invoices, and reconciling petty cash.
· Operate and demonstrate relevant ICT software packages, acting as a "superuser" for your area.
· Support project management activities by undertaking research, data manipulation, and presentation.
· Complete and submit monitoring forms, returns, and reports to external bodies.

Essential Criteria:
· Educational Attainment:
· 4 GCSEs including Maths and English or equivalent.
· Business Administration Level 2.
· Business Administration Level 3 or equivalent in an appropriate discipline.

· Work Experience:
· Significant experience as an administration/business support officer.
· Experience using IT packages like Microsoft Office.
· Experience dealing with the public face-to-face and on the telephone.

Salary: £12.38 per hour, Monday to Friday 08:30 - 16:30

Barker Ross Group values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are more than happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.

For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business