The role
This role is responsible for a range of duties, assisting the firm’s Events Manager with the planning, administration, and delivery of events.
The responsibilities
- Assisting with event coordination, including diary management.
- Coordinating the ‘events@’ mailbox.
- Venue finding and liaison.
- Invitation production, coordination and distribution.
- Invitation list and response management.
- Production of event collateral (where applicable) including name badges, place cards, delegate packs.
- Post-event administration.
- Front of house duties at events (meet and greet, cloakroom, human signage).
- Coordinate the firm’s participation at exhibitions, including the set-up and break-down of exhibition collateral.
- Responsibility for the event lifecycle of specific small-scale internal, intermediary and alumni events.
The team
We are a friendly, busy team, based across London, Bristol, Manchester and Bournemouth offices.
We support fee earner colleagues across our UK office network and overseas, providing outstanding service to our internal clients.
We offer support and advice on a wide range of activities relating to external marketing communications, internal communications and business development activities, and we support nine varied National Practice Groups via which the firm goes to market, from Private Wealth to Sports & Entertainment.
You
- Experience of working with a range processes, procedures and systems, typically gained through a period of specialised training within a professional services environment.
- May hold relevant qualification or be working towards an appropriate qualification.
- Good computer literacy and understanding of relevant software. Keeps up to date on all required training such as information security.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Ability to work to specified standards, service levels and timeframes.
- Ability to communicate effectively with others and build strong working relationships. May be required to influence using technical knowledge.
- Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments and accepts responsibility for own work.
- Plans and prioritises work effectively to meet commitments
- Makes good and timely decisions that keep events moving forward.
- Handles issues confidently after instruction.
- Leverages rules and procedures to speed up decision making.
- Confidently and quickly draws on others' expertise.
- Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
- Ability to communicate effectively with others and build strong working relationships.
About us
Saffery LLP is an adviser to individuals and businesses across a range of sectors, providing market-leading accountancy, audit, business advisory, tax and VAT services. Founded in 1855, we are the UK’s 15th largest accountancy firm.
When you work with us at Saffery, you work with people who know your name, not just a job title. We’re a place shaped by friendly, intelligent people who are individually excellent and collectively exceptional. We’re committed to our clients, but also to our greatest asset – our people.
As a proud member of Nexia, a leading, international network of independent accounting and consulting firms, we’ve got access to local insight on a global scale.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
Equality, diversity and inclusion is a top priority for us. With our ED&I strategy, Everyone Belongs, we are building on our positive work culture and implementing initiatives to improve diversity and strengthen our equitable culture of inclusion, led from the top.
We hope you will apply to us, whatever your background, ethnicity, gender, age, sexuality, disability or neurodivergence, because individual differences equal collective strength. Built on values of excellence, integrity, enthusiasm and collegiality, Saffery is where Potential meets Personal.