BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT & FINANCE

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ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT In addition to secretarial duties (filing, taking phone calls, scheduling appointments, making travel arrangements), this position will provide administrative support to executive staff with office management responsibilities to include budgeting, personnel records and payroll. The Administrative Assistant may be required to work independently on projects requiring research and preparation of briefing charts and other presentation materials

Office management functions include: 

• Bookkeeping
• Business process mapping
• Cost accounting
• Customer service
• Database management
• Facility management
• Design of form or document templates
• Human resources
• Management information systems
• Management consulting
• Occupational safety and health
• Payroll
• Project management
• Purchasing
• Records management
• Recruitment
• Report EXAMPLES:
  • Annual reports
  • Auditor's reports
  • Book reports
  • Retail report
  • Census reports
  • Credit reports
  • Demographic reports
  • Expense report
  • Experience report
  • Incident report
  • Inspection reports
  • Military reports
  • Police reports
  • Policy reports
  • Progress reports
  • Investigative reports
  • Technical or scientific reports
  • Trip reports
  • White papers
  • Appraisal reports
• Risk management
• Sales
• Marketing
• Security management
• Office space planning
• Systems analysis
• Website maintenance: Making sure links are working, old links are replaced, a process of continuous improvement, including principles of customer service, accessibility, reducing cognitive load, design and legal considerations, ongoing.