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Amy Anderson

Benfleet,Essex

Summary

I consider myself an accomplished professional with expertise in diary and meeting coordination, minuting meetings, and proactive organisation skills, assisting at Executive level authority.

I demonstrate expertise in travel arrangements and MS Office, ensuring time efficiency and attention to detail, and am committed to optimising operational processes and achieving organisational goals.

In addition I possess an experienced, professional focus on providing high-level administrative support and streamlining office operations. I am skilled in managing complex schedules, coordinating travel arrangements, and enhancing productivity through effective organisation and communication, and committed to maintaining confidentiality and delivering exceptional service in fast-paced environments.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education

Work history

Personal Assistant & Lead Admin Coordinator

Willmott Dixon Interiors
London & Remote from home
2016.10 - 2026.07

Assisting the Operations Director from 2016-2020, then promoted to assisting Director of Operations and Deputy Managing Director. Duties included:

  • Extensive Diary & Inbox Management: Scheduling of meetings both in person and remotely with meticulous attention to detail, liaising with internal and external parties, colour coding systems, monitoring of emails (flagging and removal of spam). Maintained confidentiality of documents and ensured secure handling of sensitive information, along with filing of documents systematically. Updated diaries with daily appointments, set reminders and key details in line with priority business tasks
  • Management of Support Team: Providing line management to a number of the support team, ensuring the administration, business support and office functions met our internal customer needs. Carried out appraisals, personal improvement plans and heavily involved with recruitment and interviewing of support staff
  • Minute Taking & Meeting Preparation: Board Meeting pack preparation, involving collating reports, creating an agenda along with minute / action taking with accuracy and precision, ensuring circulation within the required timescales
  • Event & Travel Arrangements: Coordinating high profile internal / external events such as project launches, client meetings, team collaborations, annual staff parties and hotel bookings on large scale numbers. Travel arrangements organised for oversea trips, including flight bookings, arrangement of visas and accommodation, along with UK based travel itineraries
  • Reception Cover: Provided front of house cover in events of staff sickness and holiday. Monitored calls, greeted guests, arranged lunches and booking of meeting rooms
  • Uploading and submitting expenses
  • Letter writing, proof reading and formatting of presentations and drafting of company wide emails on behalf of the Executive Board
  • Assisting the Human Resources Team with facilitating inductions for new starters and formatting structure charts

Office Assistant (Temporary Assignment)

Columa Wealth Management
London
2016.07 - 2016.10

Team Assistant / Technical Services Analyst

WRB Underwriting
London
2012.07 - 2016.06
  • Collating meeting packs for monthly Delegated Authority Committee, including agenda drafting and follow up of action points. This also involved running premium bordereaux reports from SharePoint / SQL
  • Scheduling of meetings for Delegated Authority Committee, weekly Peer Review meetings and team meetings, which involved diary management for senior members of staff such as Directors of Underwriting and Chief Operations Officer
  • Completing governance related duties, such as updating the terms of reference and uploading of meeting documents for the Delegated Authority Committee Sharepoint
  • Organising ad-hoc events such as lunch and learn seminars for large groups of up to 30, including meeting invites and lunch orders
  • Ensuring that relevant Lloyd's returns were diarised and monitored for yearly attestation

Education

A-Levels -

Palmers Sixth Form College
Grays, Thurrock
2002.09 - 2004.07

GCSEs - Various

Grays Convent High School
Grays, Thurrock
1997.09 - 2002.01

Skills

  • Diary & meeting coordination
  • Minuting meetings
  • Proactive organisation
  • Travel arrangements
  • MS Office expertise
  • Time efficiency
  • Team Leadership
  • Attention to Detail

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Personal Assistant & Lead Admin Coordinator

Willmott Dixon Interiors
2016.10 - 2026.07

Office Assistant (Temporary Assignment)

Columa Wealth Management
2016.07 - 2016.10

Team Assistant / Technical Services Analyst

WRB Underwriting
2012.07 - 2016.06

A-Levels -

Palmers Sixth Form College
2002.09 - 2004.07

GCSEs - Various

Grays Convent High School
1997.09 - 2002.01
Amy Anderson