Senior Admin Assistant

4Recruitment Services Ltd; Leeds; On-site; GBP 17,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

4Recruitment Services Ltd is seeking an experienced Senior Admin Assistant to support a West Yorkshire authority in Leeds. You will handle a variety of admin tasks, maintain records, and contribute to team efficiency.

The role requires accurate document checking, data recording, and a proactive approach to customer service within a busy public service environment. You will work with multiple teams, manage workloads, and help produce reports while adhering to deadlines and confidentiality

Qualifications

• Experience in admin roles and public service environments.
• Able to communicate clearly with diverse audiences.
• Proven ability to meet deadlines and manage workload.

Responsibilities

• Check documents and record data accurately.
• Identify problems and offer solutions.
• Support staff and develop team members.
• Collate data and produce reports.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication

Independent work

Education

Admin experience

Tools

IT systems

Job description

Our local authority client based in West Yorkshire are urgently seeking an experienced Senior Admin Assistant.

£14.59 an hour PAYE

Responsibilities

• Work with high levels of accuracy for tasks such as checking documents and recording numerical and alphabetical information.
• Identify problems and areas for improvement and offer solutions.
• Support staff and develop new team members.
• Use initiative and judgement where appropriate, providing outcomes and solutions for customers from a range of options.
• Work on your own, manage your own workload and use your initiative to adhere to time scales and deadlines.
• Carry out a range of administrative duties.
• Collate data and use it to produce reports.
• Understand legal business, financial, audit, confidential and operational requirements of the service, and the impact on its day-to-day work.

Skills Required

• Well-developed interpersonal and communication skills with a wide range of people including face-to-face, telephone and written communication skills. Including the processes for dealing with varied information with a range of audiences.
• Able to work with, and within, multiple teams of staff and contribute to its development with suggestions for new ways of working

Knowledge Required

• Knowledge of the applications, systems and IT programmes utilised by the service and being able to accurately record and retrieve information.

Experience Required

• Of working on your own and using your initiative to adhere to timescales and deadlines.
• Experience and understanding of the importance of providing excellent customer services
• Of dealing positively with challenging situations