Department: Administration

Employment Type: Fixed Term - Full Time

Location: Fulham, London

Description

Berkeley Group builds homes and neighbourhoods across London, Birmingham and the South of England. We revive underused land, creating welcoming, sustainable and nature-rich places where communities thrive and where people of all ages and backgrounds enjoy a great quality of life. We specialise in long term brownfield regeneration, focusing on challenging and complex sites that are beyond the scope of conventional homebuilders. We are highly collaborative, working with councils and communities to create a shared vision and to unlock a mix of social, environmental, economic and commercial value that benefits all our stakeholders. Our passion for quality and design underpins everything we do. All Berkeley homes are created with care, expertise and relentless attention to detail.

What you’ll be doing

• Full inbox and diary management for the Managing Director, including responding on the Managing Director’s behalf where possible
• Full complex diary management for the Managing Director & Finance Director considering locations & sufficient time preparation for meetings internally & externally
• Ensure both are briefed ahead of all meetings and packs prepared if necessary
• Prepare agendas for meetings and distribute accordingly
• Ability to upward manage to ensure deadlines are met and deliverables received from other senior management team members
• Prepare and edit presentations, memorandums, briefing packs, reports and other documents, including preparation for board meetings
• Handle and organise key and confidential documents, reports and presentations
• Keep monthly account of MD’s and FD’s expenses, including MDs company card
• Ability to highlight urgent matters that require attention of the MD / FD
• Event coordination including 3 large charity events every year
• Organise meeting refreshments when required
• Flexibility with site location - ability to move with MD to different sites as required
• Manage holiday and absence records
• Editing of the weekly newsletter
• General assistance for the finance team

What you’ll bring

• Excellent organisational skills
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with an open and welcoming disposition to build and maintain effective working relationships, with both internal and external stakeholders
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Excellent attention to detail
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities in a busy environment
• Confidentiality - Handle commercially sensitive information and personnel information with discretion

Why join us?

• 25 days annual leave, increasing with service to 33 days
• Health and wellbeing benefits including Private Medical Insurance
• Lifestyle benefits including access to an online discount platform
• Berkeley Foundation volunteer day
• Private pension plan
• Group life assurance

The standard default full time working hours in the office are 8am-5pm with core working hours 9am-4pm.