Receptionist

Description:

We are proud to be a leading independent UK consultancy at the forefront of risk, pensions, investment, and insurance. Each individual delivers on our shared values and our commitment to ensuring the highest levels of trust, integrity, and quality. We strive to employ staff who share our values and can bring special skills - enhancing the service that we provide to our clients.

At Barnett Waddingham, we are currently recruiting a great opportunity for a Receptionist to join a growing team within our Workplace Services Hub area. This is a permanent role based in our Guildford office, with fortnightly travel required to other BW offices. 

The position of Receptionist will provide visitor hosting experiences, meeting management, reception duties and administration support for the office. The successful Receptionist will have exciting opportunities to work on multiple projects across the business, as well as get involved in planning CSI away days.

Responsibilities

Welcome and hosting clients, suppliers and employees from other offices. 

Booking, setting up and management of meeting rooms. 

Organising catering and refreshments for internal and external meetings and events. 

Liaison as needed with other internal teams to ensure all client and visitor needs are met.

Audit of catering firms regularly and establish new caterers if required. 

Collaborating with the team to ensure the smooth running of all Front of House services. 

Organising courier and taxi bookings. 

Monitoring and ordering of office groceries and supplies. 

Processing post, scanning of documents and distribution to relevant people or teams.

Qualifications/Experience

Have 5 GCSE’s, at Grade 4 (C) or above, including Maths and English. 

Previous reception, office administration or customer service experience. 

Excellent communication skills and able to demonstrate working relationships within a team.

Confident user of Microsoft Office; Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

Benefits Summary

Competitive discretionary annual bonus.

Core benefits paid for by BW including life assurance, group income protection, private medical cover and 25 days holiday per year with holiday trading.

A generous pension scheme where we contribute 8% of your salary from day one of your employment.

Employee Assistance Programme to support you and your family through any concerns or challenges you may experience.

A comprehensive range of voluntary benefits to suit your life stage and lifestyle including a tech scheme, cycle to work scheme, dental cover, healthcare cash plan, health assessments, critical illness cover, extension of private medical cover or life assurance to family members, gym membership, travel insurance and a broad range of discounts at hundreds of retailers including supermarkets, fitness centres, travel and leisure companies.

Accessibility

We are a Disability Confident Employer. If you have a disability, learning difficulty, medical condition, or individual need, which you believe may affect your performance during our selection process, we’ll be happy to make adjustments to our processes to enable you a fair opportunity to showcase your skills. Please visit AbilityNet should you benefit from advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability. Should you require information in a different format, have other accessibility or reasonable adjustment requirements or if you find any problems not listed on this page, please contact  or call us on (phone number removed)