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Magdalena Szewczyk

Magdalena Szewczyk

Warrington,Cheshire

Summary

Flexible and trustworthy Office Administrator with excellent IT abilities and diverse background fulfilling needs such as Accounts Payable duties, general office duties, data entry as well as HR, Marketing and Health & Safety support. Conscientious, well organised, committed, problem solving personality.

Overview

25
25
years of professional experience

Work history

Finance assistant

RSK Group
Helsby, Cheshire
08.2023 - Current

On Access Dimensions & Focal Point:

  • Fully processing invoices to the point of a payment run
  • Fully Processing expenses to the point of a payment run
  • Setting up new suppliers in the system and verifying their bank details
  • Bank reconciliations
  • Supplier statements reconciliations and resolving discrepancies
  • Balancing the cashflow (Excel)

Office administrator

Contract Furniture UK Ltd
Warrington, Cheshire
09.2017 - 08.2023
  • Accounts Payable - Three-way purchase orders matching; Managing queries in relation to the purchase ledger both internally and externally; Supplier statements reconciliations and resolving discrepancies; Raising purchase orders
  • HR support - Preparing weekly payroll reports for all employees (20-50); Managing HR process for new starters; Booking holidays, Sorting out employees' queries regarding pay slips and wages.

Also:

  • Health & Safety compliance supervision with a liaison with HS Advisor, preparing and coordinating SOP’s, creating COSHH Assessments, looking after PPE stock and relevant records.
  • Marketing support - Redesigning company's website and populating it with content (WordPress); Regular basic SEO follow up and content update. As the effect of my work, the company’s visibility on Google raised by 1200% in 4 years.
  • General office duties - Generating reports, presentations, spreadsheets, Researching more competitive suppliers

PR manager

Pi-aR+
Warsaw, Poland
03.1999 - 05.2016

During my years at Pi-aR+ I worked for several TV premium channels, including CANAL+, MarcoPolo, MiniMini. I conducted comprehensive product and program PR activities, creating and running a press office, planning and organizing events (press conferences, image events) and supporting trade marketing and sales departments. I liaised with PR headquarters to develop PR and communications plans to support the success of priority projects. I drew up and managed PR plans, budgets and performance measures to achieve strategic objectives. I created various PR materials, including press releases, product information, press kits, sponsored articles, folders, newsletters, social media posts and slogans/leads to achieve significant and constant increases in brand awareness. I managed agencies and contractors delivering work to the company to verify outcomes complied with set guidelines. I proofread others' deliverables before publication or distribution to verify language correctness, clarity, formatting, aesthetics and content standards.

Education

Five-year master's degree program, Italian philology

University of Warsaw
Warsaw, Poland
09/1992 - 06/1997

GCSEs - Humanities

XXXIII Copernicus Bilingual High School
Warsaw, Poland
09/1987 - 05/1991

Skills

  • Microsoft Office proficiency
  • Access Dimensions, Focal Point basics
  • WordPress basics
  • Office Administration
  • File and database management
  • Managing purchasing activities
  • Developing presentations
  • Social media knowledge
  • Confidentiality understanding
  • Driving Licence Category B, B1

Languages

English
Fluent
Italian
Advanced
Polish
Native

Timeline

Finance assistant

RSK Group
08.2023 - Current

Office administrator

Contract Furniture UK Ltd
09.2017 - 08.2023

PR manager

Pi-aR+
03.1999 - 05.2016

Five-year master's degree program, Italian philology

University of Warsaw
09/1992 - 06/1997

GCSEs - Humanities

XXXIII Copernicus Bilingual High School
09/1987 - 05/1991
Magdalena Szewczyk