• First point of contact: dealing with correspondence and phone calls
• Managing MD diaries and organising meetings and appointments, often controlling access to the manager/executive
• Booking and arranging travel, transport and accommodation
• Organising MD meeting, travelling with MD for business purpose.
• Reminding the manager/executive of important tasks and deadlines
• compiling and preparing reports, presentations and correspondence
• Managing databases and filing systems
• Implementing and maintaining procedures/administrative systems
• Liaising with staff, suppliers and clients
• Miscellaneous tasks to support their manager, which will very according to the sector and to the manager’s remit, . completing some corporate governance reporting (to ensure that the business is being run properly and complying with legislation and regulations) or conducting research.