About The Role
Let’s grow together!
A Platinum Investors in People employer and an award-winning UK bank, focused on growth. Our customers include savers and businesses across the UK and, working together, we use our specialist expertise to help them achieve their ambitions and build a sustainable future. If you’re an experienced Administration Assistant looking for an opportunity to grow in a friendly environment, we’re looking for you! This a fixed term contract for 12 months.
We’re flexible, inclusive, committed to your wellbeing and passionate about you reaching your potential. Let’s grow together …
What you’ll be doing
1. Daily control of the email inbox, loading proposals, pay outs, enquiries and any other emails received.
2. Assisting the sales team with quoting, checking documents and general queries.
3. Communicating with the funding panel to assist with proposals and pay outs.
4. Updating the work in progress and presenting this to line manager on a weekly basis.
5. Updating all funders rates when required and sending the information to team members.
Keyboard Shortcuts
6. F9 - Move focus from the edit area to the Footer Toolbar
7. F10 - Move focus from the edit area to the first toolbar button
8. Shift + TAB - Move focus from the edit area to the last toolbar button
About You
What you’ll bring to the team
9. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
10. Ability to produce work to a consistently high standard.
11. Excellent organisational and time management skills, including the ability to work under pressure, to use initiative and to recognise and act upon priorities.
12. Integrity, respect for confidentiality, sound judgement and decision-making skills.
13. Willing and able to adopt a flexible approach as required, using initiative to multi-task and work on several assignments simultaneously and to tight schedules.
Even if you don’t meet all the criteria, we encourage you to apply. At Paragon, we value diversity and we’re excited to hear from passionate individuals like you! If you’re ready to contribute to the team, please apply.
Further information on the role can be found in the Purpose and Performance Profile (PPP), which is downloadable on this page.
Please note, applicants must have the right to work in the UK. We do not offer visa sponsorship.
Working hours
Hybrid working 37.5 Hours per week – 08.30 to 17.00 Monday to Friday - 2 days per week in the Edinburgh Office, 3 days per week at home.
Inclusion
As a Disability Confident Employer, we want to ensure that our vacancies are accessible for everyone. If you have a disability, long term health condition or are neurodiverse and need us to adjust our recruitment process please get in touch with our recruitment team.
Keyboard Shortcuts
14. F9 - Move focus from the edit area to the Footer Toolbar
15. F10 - Move focus from the edit area to the first toolbar button
16. Shift + TAB - Move focus from the edit area to the last toolbar button
About Us
What can we offer you?
17. Generous Holiday Allowance: Starting from 25 days and climbing to 30, you also get to enjoy a day off for your birthday, Christmas Eve, and New Year’s Eve. You can also buy or sell up to a week’s leave
18. Share Save Scheme: Annually, you have the opportunity to buy shares in Paragon at a discounted rate
19. Profit Related Pay: We share some of our annual profit with our eligible employees
20. Pension Plan: We contribute up to 10% of your annual salary towards your pension
21. Family Friendly policies: We offer enhanced parental pay and paid time off for fertility treatment
22. Employee Discounts: Enjoy exclusive discounts on entertainment, travel, shopping, motoring and more
23. Volunteering Day: Contribute to causes you care about with one volunteering day per year
24. Life Assurance and Personal Accident Cover
Be flexible
We promote flexibility around how and where we work so that you can achieve a healthier work-life balance. We operate hybrid working, splitting our week between the office and home.
Be yourself
As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome diversity and care about inclusion. That’s why we want you to be your whole self at work. We believe an inclusive workplace is good for each of us, great for our customers and better for our business. Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Network meets regularly to share challenges, experience, and ideas to build a more equal, diverse, and inclusive business.
Be heard
We listen to your point of view, with our People Forum and regular employee surveys making sure you can use your voice and influence our future.
Be well
We will give you access to a range of tools and resources to support your wellbeing. This will include a digital GP service via our free Employee Assistance Programme, access to our Wellbeing team to connect you with the help you need to get more out of life and our Vitality at Work programme to provide you with discounted gym membership, fitness equipment and another multitude of wellbeing services.
Be better
We want you to reach your potential and, as a Platinum Investors in People employer, we’ll encourage you to learn and develop by building a personalised development plan together with your manager.
Keyboard Shortcuts
25. F9 - Move focus from the edit area to the Footer Toolbar
26. F10 - Move focus from the edit area to the first toolbar button
27. Shift + TAB - Move focus from the edit area to the last toolbar button