Office Admin Assistant

Office Admin Assistant

Overview

Cornerstone are seeking an enthusiastic, talented and motivated admin assistant to work within their growing advertising agency based in Oldham, Manchester.

Our agency has been growing quickly in recent years and offers a vibrant environment to work in, as well as job progression and career development.

Working in a busy and professional environment, the successful candidate is expected to be very well organised, working well under pressure and able to adapt to changes quickly and effectively.

Day to day duties will include:

  • Phone Handling and booking of meetings
  • Greeting clients
  • Supporting our directors and wider team with workloads
  • Compilation of survey data
  • Organisation of contractors and suppliers
  • Invoicing
  • Basic Quoting
  • Raising Orders and Managing Delivery Deadlines
  • Managing and ordering stock of office items and sundries
  • Housekeeping and tidying of office
  • Arranging contracts, renewals and agreements
  • Errands
  • Filing
  • Post
  • Statements
  • Processing expenses
  • Proof reading and checking of documents before release
  • Making required travel arrangements
  • Support in all aspect of Health and Safety

 

Experience:

  • Administrative: 2 years (Required)

Key Skills

  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Excellent numerical skills
  • Interest in accounting and reporting
  • Analytical skills and capabilities
  • Good written and verbal communication
  • Strong team player
  • Polite telephone manner
  • Ability to demonstrate good organisational skills
  • Works well under pressure
  • Good time management
  • Able to be flexible and can adapt to the teams needs
  • Willingness to learn/cover other roles within the business
  • Some knowledge of accounts processes would be desirable


Key Responsibilities

  • Inputting all purchase invoices ensuring they are coded correctly
  • Reporting on purchase ledger stats and insights
  • Resolving incoming bills against purchase orders and logging on internal systems
  • Chasing missing invoices from PO’s raised and statements received.
  • Answering the telephone and door in a timely manner
  • Supporting the MD with any administrative tasks including making travel arrangements, expense claims etc
  • Providing administrative support to the wider team
  • Conducting weekly health and safety checks of the building (training will be provided)
  • Ordering office supplies (e.g., tea, coffee, sugar, stationery etc.)
  • Arranging any maintenance visits to the office
  • Creating new supplier accounts
  • Contribute to the ongoing development and improvement of company policies and procedures

Salary and Benefits

  • Full time salary £21,000 – £24,000 p.a. (pro rat’d to hours) DOE
  • Part-time (hours to be agreed and flexible) This is an office-based position
  • Healthcare insurance
  • Annual bonus
  • In house gym




Senior PHP Developer

Senior PHP Developer

Overview

Cornerstone is a fully integrated marketing agency based in the Northwest, with year-on-year growth of 30-40% and over 16 years of success and stability in the sector.

Currently in the process of further expanding our web services offering, we’re on the lookout for a motivated senior PHP developer to work across a variety of exciting PHP web projects using Laravel and WordPress.

The appointed candidate will have at least five years industry experience, and be involved in carefully crafting beautifully developed, structured websites that not only look and function exceptionally well, but add real value to our clients’ businesses.

This is a superb opportunity to join a happy, motivated and passionate team of experts within their field, whilst joining us on our journey of growth, development and success across our targeted sectors.

Key Skills

  • Fully versed in HTML, CSS, PHP, W3C standards and best coding practices and standards
  • Laravel development
  • Bespoke WordPress development
  • API development & integrations
  • Git setup, control and management
  • SSH and jQuery / Javascript functions
  • Understanding of Cloud Computing (AWS, GCP or Azure)
  • Nice to have – understanding of ReactJS, VueJS
  • Writing technical documentation
  • Ability to work as part of a team, and individually where necessary
  • Understanding of server structures from a web development perspective such as plesk, cpanel or similar
  • Problem solving and debugging
  • Commercial solutions and specification creation
  • Nice to have – WordPress plugin development


Key Responsibilities

  • Heavy focus on back end development and database structures
  • General understanding and capability with front end technologies
  • Expert in Laravel and WordPress builds, being able to craft either or both to meet client specifications
  • Mentoring of junior team members and supporting our technical lead in technical solutions
  • Quality checks and verification of code base across our teams
  • Data security of solutions and integrations into payment gateways and third party systems
  • API development and integrations with multiple third party systems across Laravel and WordPress builds
  • Supporting our teams in resolving technical issues and queries spanning our sites
  • Overseeing our server and hosting solutions and forming recommendations and improvements where suitable to support the company’s growth ambitions
  • Support in the estimating, specifying and technical solutions for all new incoming projects
  • Work with the team to develop skills, capabilities and processes
  • Take a lead on larger and complex builds spanning industries and project types

Salary and Benefits

  • Healthcare insurance
  • Annual bonus scheme
  • Hefty training budget
  • Hybrid working available
  • Regular team socials events
  • In house gym
  • Pension scheme
  • Flexible working
  • Modern bespoke office space makes for a stunning place to collaborate
  • Excellent tech, training and support
  • True investment from management in your career and wellbeing
  • Hybrid Role Expected 2 days in the office
  • Salary: Highly competitive DOE




WordPress Developer

WordPress Developer

Overview

We are looking for a highly motivated middleweight / senior WordPress developer to join our team to help with the many web builds and improvements we deliver for our wide and varying range of clients across the UK.

The ideal candidate will have strong skills in delivering custom WordPress builds to exacting specifications, and will have the ability to work both independently on projects as well as working within a team.

You will be responsible for the front and back end elements of the build process, taking exported assets and XD designs from our design team and turning them into carefully crafted HTML, CSS, PHP and JavaScript. Each build is custom, unique and highly rewarding.

Key Skills

  • WordPress theme development (custom)
  • Strong proficiency with PHP, HTML5, MySQL, JavaScript and CSS3
  • Ability to work with cross-functional teams to deliver on a common goal.
  • A minimum of 3 years WordPress experience
  • Bug fixing and problem solving


Key Responsibilities

  • Delivering front and back end elements of builds on your own initiative
  • Testing and refining code base for strong accessibility and usability
  • Ensuring sites are W3C compliant and in line with Google guidelines

Salary and Benefits

  • Starting salary between £28,000 – £39,000
  • Healthcare insurance
  • Annual bonus
  • Hefty training budget
  • Part or full remote working available
  • Regular team socials & events
  • In house gym