Secretary

Secretary – Valuation Services

About Us

We are the leading specialist advisor for buying and selling businesses in our sectors – hotels, pubs, restaurants, childcare, healthcare, convenience retail, leisure and medical. With 90 years of experience, we offer professional brokerage and advisory services, our team has a network of 13 offices in the UK along with 12 in Europe. We pride ourselves in our high standards, providing a client centric experience and building business around our clients through tailoring our services.

Purpose of the role

To provide support to the members of the Valuation Services team in the form of secretarial, administrative, PA and reception duties. This person can be based in either the Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester or Bristol office.

About the team

The valuation services team comprises circa 30 valuers who specialise in Care, Medical and Hospitality valuations ranging from single asset valuations up to multi billion pound portfolios. The team undertake over 2,000 valuations per annum and are the market leaders in the sectors that they cover.

Responsibilities

In this role you will:

• Meeting and travel arrangements: Organising in-house and offsite meetings, booking rooms, restaurants, conferences, team travel, hotels, car hire, and property inspections.
• Financial and administrative tasks: Preparing fee account projections, raising fee accounts, creating debtor’s reports, updating pipelines, maintaining cash schedules, and maintaining information on IBIS.
• Document preparation and management: Preparing, formatting, proof-reading reports, binding for presentation, scanning documents into data storage, and creating presentations on PowerPoint.
• Regulatory and valuation enquiries: Conducting statutory/regulatory enquiries for valuation instructions and using promaps and other online tools.
• Communication and correspondence: Creating ad-hoc letters, including copy typing and audio typing.

What we are looking for

The suitable candidate for this role would bring:

• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in an administrative role.
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office, numerate, audio typing and copy typing skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, highly organised, and self-motivated.
• Knowledge of the property industry and experience supporting a team of valuers would be beneficial.
• Knowledge of Salesforce would be beneficial.

About you

At Christie & Co we value the importance of creating and maintaining meaningful personal relationships in the workplace to achieve success as a team, our people bring:

• Professional and proactive
• Adaptable and autonomous
• Team-oriented and resilient

What we offer

• Discretionary company profitability bonus
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Holiday carryover & additional Christmas leave
• Life assurance
• Employee wellbeing assistance via Plumm
• “Recommend a Friend” employee referral bonus
• Enhanced family friendly leave
• Cycle to work scheme
• Eyecare vouchers

Our Values

Adaptable, Collaborative, Innovative, Personal and Trusted, you can learn more about life at Christie & Co here: https://www.christie.com/careers/what-makes-the-christie-co-experience/

Please apply today, or for more information, contact: jobs@christie.com

Christie & Co is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our policy is clear: there shall be no discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, or sexual orientation.