I am a professional, multi-skilled executive / office manager with excellent IT skills and database management experience, with a background in market research and project administration / management, who takes pride in my work.
KEY SKILLS & CAPABILITIES
• IT skills - MS: Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook etc
• Database, including CRM, experience and skills
• Fast and accurate typing, 60+ wpm (also 65+ wpm audio)
• Time management and communication skills, both verbal and written
• Customer service skills and business acumen, with strong work ethic
• Project administration / management
• Team player, with ‘can do’ and professional approach
• Flexible, fast learner especially of new software and good initiative
• Knowledgeable in basic accounting and budget management
• Proposals, management reports & presentations, with graphs

Area Covered: remote
Work Experience Summary: Office management / PA-Sec (including legal) / Project Administration temporary assignments in SW England over the last 4 years, have provided me with wide and varied experience; very competent with MS Office: Word 2007, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc

I am also a quick learner of other systems, such as SAP, iShare and WorkShare. Fast and accurate typist (60 wpm, 98% accuracy) and audio typing (65+ wpm, 99% accuracy); legal and other commercial secretarial functions; diary management, travel and meeting arrangements; ordering office supplies; taking minutes (board level); answering telephone and email queries; invoicing and paying suppliers (BACs); project financial records; health and safety issues; preparing and editing data, proposals and reports; updating and maintaining databases (also CRM’s).

Prior to going to university, I worked as a PA for an MD and a Financial Director and did temp assignments to work my way through university.


Education
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Summary: OTHER TRAINING AND SKILLS INCLUDE:
• Management Skills
• Project Management and Public Speaking
• Market Research - Quantitative and Qualitative Design and Analysis
• Dbase IV programming, Quattro-Pro and Access reports
• Interviewing and Career Counselling
• Career path interviews
• Effective Advertising Certificate
• CRB checked and clean driver’s licence
Degree: BA and BA Honours
Field of Study: Sociology and Psychology
University / College: Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
From:15/Jan/1978 To:15/Dec/1981