Careers

Administration Executive

As an Administrative Executive you will be supporting the Office & Administration Manager, with a range of tasks that help to keep the whole Research in Finance team operating smoothly. In addition, you will be expected to support the Community Manager providing back up for any online community related project. This role has plenty of variety and requires some serious multi-tasking.

You will report to the Office & Administration Manager but work very closely with other members of the team and in particular to support the Chief Operating Officer as required.

Key accountabilities:

Recruitment for and scheduling interviews as part of research projects that require qualitative insight

• Providing support and back-up for online communities
• General project admin to the wider team as need be
• Office admin to support the Office & Administration Manager

Other responsibilities include:

Recruiting and scheduling for qualitative studies:

• Arranging a timetable based on participants and researcher’s availability, confirming participants participation, and sending confirmation calendar invites. Updating the relevant panel with confirmed participants.
• Ensuring interviews go ahead as planned, troubleshoot any issues and organising reimbursements for participant’s time.

Online communities:

• Help set up the community with client’s materials, monitor participants responses, chasing slow participants and ensuring all activities are completed. Updating the activity tracker as the community progress.
• Recruiting, managing and reimbursing participants.

General Project Admin:

• Assisting the project manager on any research project as and when needed
• Ensuring the project management software has correct timings for projects and that the wider research team are keeping this updated as timelines change.
• Supporting other teams if they need a little extra help to ensure the project keeps on track.

Office Admin:

• Assisting the Office & Administration Manager as need be, ensuring the office is well equipped and running smoothly.
• Helping organising company socials and feed in/run ideas to improve company culture and individual wellbeing.
• Creating ‘How To’ and ‘Standard Procedure’ documents.
• Implementing new ideas to improve the existing processes for the team and improve efficiency.
• Organising the Summer and Christmas Parties for the whole company with assistance from the Office & Administration Manager.

Key Skills/Experience required:

• Previous experience of working in an admin role in a busy office environment
• Demonstrate effective team working skills
• Must be proactive and be able to use their own initiative.
• Have strong IT Skills with a good knowledge of Microsoft Office applications in particular Word, Excel and Powerpoint.
• Excellent communication skills
• Be efficient, able to multitask whilst having good attention to detail.
• Willingness to learn and grow with the team/ company.
• Prepared to work in the office 4 days a week
• No previous knowledge of market research or financial services is required

Working at Research in Finance

Research in Finance is a market leading consultancy, research and publishing business that is about implementing change and making a difference. We work with some of the largest, most influential, and important asset management and insurance companies in the world. We are increasingly undertaking more studies that have a global reach.

Since the economic crisis of 2007 the role of the financial services sector has become a critical part of all of our lives. The prosperity, health and future of a nation and its people are inextricably linked to the role these companies play in the world economy. Arguably the financial service sector has the greatest ability to direct change for good. Having control of huge amounts of money can drive investment into emerging economies to help develop nations, support the implementation of green energy to prevent further climate change or force companies to act responsibly by withholding funds.

RiF was created 11 years ago and has experienced double digit year-on-year revenue and profit growth. We have an amazing team of 30 staff currently and an expanding set of more than 45 loyal clients, many of whom we’ve worked with since our launch, who rely and trust the insights we produce to make important strategic decisions about their businesses. We are much more than just a consultancy and research agency as we also manage high value panels of professional and private investors. This means we have unique access to some very “hard to reach” study participants. Our market and client requirements are changing all the time, often in response to changes in regulation, and as a result we have created a fast-moving and responsive team, and where possible, a tech driven response, in order to ensure we continue to be top of mind for our clients and all of their research needs.

Our company culture is about delivering exceptional products that delight and inspire our clients.

We don’t adhere to dated corporate practices of tiered management structures and inflexible working hours. Each employee has a “voice” in the company and an integral part of the direction of the business. We also, like to give everyone the space, time and support to deliver outstanding work as we understand that the work we do requires space and time to think!

Benefits include:

• Pension scheme with 4% contribution by employer (above normal rate of 3%)
• Private health care insurance is available for eligible employees following completion of two years of employment
• Ongoing external and internal training where appropriate
• One day corporate volunteering to give back to the community
• 25 days’ holiday (excluding bank holidays)
• High-end central London office with showers, bike racks, 24-hour access, free quality teas and coffee
• Company laptop
• Bike to work scheme
• Christmas and summer party

To apply for this position, please submit a brief introduction about yourself, detailing why you are interested in being considered for the role, along with your CV, to [email protected] .