Receptionist Full Time

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Job Title: Receptionist
Office location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Language requirements: Fluent English, Arabic preferable
Working hours: Monday-Friday 9am-6pm
Work location: Abu Dhabi Global Market, Abu Dhabi
In-Office/Hybrid/Remote: In-office

Company Overview

Alvarez & Marsal (“A&M”) is a group of entrepreneurial, action and results-oriented professionals who take a hands-on approach to solving our clients’ problems and assisting them in reaching their potential. Privately held since its founding in 1983, A&M is a leading global professional services firm that provides advisory, business performance improvement and turnaround management services.

Overview of the Role

We are looking for a high-energy and polished Receptionist, who has a passion for client services and is happy to take initiative and think on their feet. This role requires flexibility, energy, the ability to multi-task, prioritise and be aware at all times that A&M’s reception is the heart of the office. A professional appearance is required at all times. The successful candidate will embrace a can-do attitude, team spirit and more importantly is happy to get involved and roll up their sleeves.

Responsibilities

• Taking ownership and pride in providing a professional Front of House service
• Answering all calls and ‘at the desk’ queries in a professional and timely way
• Greeting all A&M visitors, showing them to their room and providing refreshments.
• Being the first point of contact for the main building reception, representing A&M within the building
• Managing all client meeting rooms ensuring that they are always maintained to a high standard
• Liaising with the relevant teams to coordinate office activities, such as controlling the office temperature,
• booking couriers and organising all incoming and outgoing post and escalating any issues to the Office Manager
• Ordering passes for new hires and managing the visitor passes
• Creating new hire welcome packs
• Maintaining levels and ordering consumables for the pantry
• Maintaing stationery levels and reordering as required, including branded materials
• Ordering the catering for events held in the office
• Checking and liaising with IT as necessary to remedy technology faults and ensure that the telephones and TV
• screens in each meeting room are in full working order
• Organising office maintenance
• Supporting administrative functions including loading invoices and obtaining cost centre allocations
• Handling petty cash, reconciliation and allocations
• Local vendor management and negotiation activities
• Ad-hoc requests to support the local operations and practice teams.

Requirements

• Relevant experience, preferably in a professional services environment
• Excellent communications skills, with the ability to present a friendly and open style
• Maintain a high level of professionalism in all interactions
• Strong time management, organisation, and prioritisation skills
• An obvious passion for client service
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment, using flexible mindset to shift priorities
• Enthusiasm and sensitivity to others, you will enjoy being part of a close working team
• Proficient in a variety of computer software applications including Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
• Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills.
• Culture is important at A&M. People with the below personal style, will fit right in.
• Adaptable and agile – thrives in a rapid growth, fast-paced, challenging, and unpredictable environment;
• Hands-on and non-hierarchical operator who is equally effective in managing up and down and relates well at all levels and cultures;
• Driven by values and integrity, straight talker, builds confidence and leads by example; and
• Autonomous – A&M has a flat structure with a self-sufficient culture.

Diversity & Inclusion

A&M’s entrepreneurial culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers who can positively impact our clients and shape our industry. The collaborative environment and engaging work—guided by A&M’s core values of Integrity, Quality, Objectivity, Fun, Personal Reward, and Inclusive Diversity—are the main reasons our people love working at A&M. Inclusive Diversity means we embrace diversity, and we foster inclusiveness, encouraging everyone to bring their whole self to work each day. It runs through how we recruit, develop employees, conduct business, support clients, and partner with vendors. It is the A&M way.