Executive Assistant/Office Manager

Executive Assistant/Office Manager

🌏 Oxford

💷 Discretionary Company Bonus Scheme  

⏰ Monday – Friday (37.5 hours per week)  

💖 Our perks  

• 🌏25 days holiday (rising to 28 after 3 years’ service) plus bank holidays, to take time to recharge and do something you love. 
• 🤒 Private Medical - via vitality, with reward schemes paid for you and your family.
• 🤒 Health cash plan - via Simply Health for employee's and children claiming money back for dental, optical, etc
• 👍Pension – Oodle will contribute 5% of your salary into your pension pot to help you save for the future
• 🪙Life Assurance - 4 x annual salary - benefit funded by Oodle 
• 🥝Free breakfast, drinks and fruit in the office – you can help yourself to cereals, toast, fizzy drinks and lots of fruit. 
• 🤟Employee discounts – discounts you can access anywhere, anytime for all major shops. 
• 👌1 day volunteer day per year – an opportunity to give back to the community each year.
• ⭐Mental health care – 6 free counselling sessions via our EAP (Employee Assistance Programme). 
• 🤧Paid sick leave – enhanced company sick pay.  
• 👨‍Enhanced family leave – we provide enhanced family leave for primary and secondary caregivers.

 🚗 Oodle – who are we? 🚗

Our mission is to empower our customers by delivering simple experiences, straightforward lending products, and compassionate support, from application to final payment – and beyond.

Upgrading. Growing a family. Fresh starts. Big moves. Bumps in the road. - we finance cars, but more importantly, we finance people. Since 2016, we’ve supported tens of thousands of customers on their car buying journey

As an employer, your career is important to us. We’re committed to creating an environment where you can thrive as yourself. We celebrate diversity and inclusion, actively working to make sure every team member feels supported on their journey with us. Our Talent Development team is here to support your growth, providing opportunities for learning, development, and career progression.

🙌 The Role & Team 

Executive Assistant/Office Manager at Oodle Car Finance. 

You’ll primarily provide day to day support to our ExCo members, as well as managing our Oxford Office. You will report into the Senior EA and be involved in a range of activities from coordinating meetings and projects through to organising Company events and internal activities. You'll be highly organised, proactive and able to manage multiple priorities. 

What you’ll be getting up to: 

• Providing day to day support to our ExCo members including diary management, inbox management, coordination of meetings and preparation of agendas and follow up actions.  
• Ensure effective governance of meetings by taking minutes and tracking actions.  
• Act as a central coordination point for projects and priorities.  
• Oversee the smooth running of the Oxford office, including facilities, suppliers, contractors and day to day operational needs.  
• Organising Company events and assisting with lunches for any internal or external meetings. 
• Acting as the first point of contact for our visitors in the Oxford Office. 
• Managing the day-to-day organisation of the office. 

These are nice to have skills:  

• Previous experience of working as an EA with senior stakeholders. 
• Previous experience of provided high quality professional minutes. 
• Strong admin and organisational skills with high attention to detail. 
• Excellent communications and stakeholder management skills. 
• Ability to prioritise workload and problem solve. 

👩‍💻 Hiring Process  

• ☎️ Initial screening (30 minutes) 
• 📹 Capability and values interview (1 hour) 
• 🔦 Final Interview (30 minutes) 

💚 Our Values   

Our values are our personal brand and lay the foundation of what we care about the most. They provide us with guidance, so we can work towards the same goals. They are our DNA and are kept at the forefront of our Oodler’s mind when making business decisions.   

• Embrace being human – empathy and diversity make us stronger.  
• Strive for awesome – it’s awesome when we do better every day.  
• Everyone’s a builder – we’re in this together and we win as a team.  
• Bravely honest – we’re honest with ourselves and everyone else.  
• Think customer – they’re at the heart of everything we do. 

To find out more about our culture and what happens at Oodle check out our LinkedIn and Instagram.  

Oodle is proud to be an inclusive workplace, and we recognise diversity of experience, thoughts and backgrounds leads to better customer outcomes and an environment where our colleagues can thrive. We have several DEI networks which are made up of our ‘Oodlers’ who strive to make positive impacts to our cultures. 

We’d love if you could submit your application online, but if you need an alternative method or need reasonable adjustments to take part in the interview process, please email [email protected].

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