Office Administrator

Contract: Full time, permanent

Location: Argentina, Buenos Aires

**We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation, and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.**

Our mission is to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence. Which is why we give vital support to millions of people in more than 170 countries around the world every year. From teachers and learners to researchers and academics, we help to build confidence, unlock potential, and enable success. We give people the opportunity to show what they've learnt, and we spread knowledge, spark enquiry, and aid understanding.

We achieve this by embracing change, and by focusing on our customers' needs. And by collaborating, and carefully listening to our customers and to each other, we keep moving forward

**The Role**

To support the day-to-day running of the country office by providing first-in-line, front office support to customers, the collation of all expenses reports and office returns in a timely manner, dealing with external suppliers and ensuring that the office is presentable at all times.

**KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES**:

- General office administration: including, timely payment of invoices, budget control, liaison with suppliers and service providers, petty cash administration, filing and maintenance of the filing system, logging of staff time-off, ensuring the office is presentable at all times
- Providing front office support including dealing with incoming calls, answering general enquiries from customers and passing more complex support enquiries upstream
- Timely, accurate collation and return of office expense reports, ensuring all monthly expense sheets are correctly completed and returned to the respective shared services team in the UK by the deadline stipulated, and that all necessary pre and post approvals are recorded and attached as required
- Liaising with external accountants and ensuring all legal requirements are met in line with Cambridge University Press & Assessment official guidelines and local legal requirements
- Supporting the Country Manager with managing the annual budget, ensuring that recorded expenditure is up-to-date and accurate for reporting to the respective director
- Deal with the IT aspects of the office and the general maintenance of office materials

**About You**
- Minimum high school diploma or equivalent, preferably vocational training in administration or accountancy
- Native speaker in a local language and excellent English (minimum C1)

**Skills**
- Strong computer literacy
- IT skills, including Outlook, Word, Excel and databases
- Good interpersonal skills, especially on the phone
- Good organisational skills
- Ability to work independently

**Experience**
- Experience in office administration highly preferable
- Experience of working in a global organisation
- Experience of working in a customer support role
- Experience of working supporting colleagues in an office environment

**Why join us**
- Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe - for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration._
- Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where everyone has a voice, and where we learn continuously to improve together. Ensuring that everyone feels they belong is essential to who we are, and to the contribution we make to society and our planet._
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