Banking Secretarial Jobs In London
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As in big organisations and corporate institutions around the world, secretaries play a pivotal role in the functioning of London’ largest banking and financial organisations. In many instances, secretaries will function in such a capacity as to represent their employers, or the bank as a whole. As such, it is critical that secretarial employees are as professional and well groomed as a top-level executive in the same organisation.
What Do Banking Secretaries Do?
As in most other secretarial jobs, being a secretary in a banking environment will entail screening telephone calls, co-ordinating schedules and managing one or more executives’ diaries. Although a banking secretary’s work will be predominantly office-based, it won’t necessarily be desk-bound secretarial work. Corporate and banking secretaries attend board meetings, take down minutes and facilitate meetings between departments. The drafting of letters, documents, emails and other communications is another important secretarial responsibility. Depending on the size of a division, a secretary may also be expected to do filing, faxing and general admin duties.
In addition to having the right tertiary qualifications, few things can beat relevant job experience. If you’ve worked in a banking or financial environment before, it is quite likely that your application would be chosen over that of someone who has not.
Required Skills For Becoming A Secretary
A high level of numeracy and first-language English literacy are pretty much non-negotiable requirements. Given the increasing emphasis on Internet Communications Technology, Internet banking and general IT literacy across a range of corporate sectors, it comes as no surprise that even secretaries within the banking sector are expected to have a high level of computer literacy. In addition to this, speed typing, shorthand, switchboard and administrative skills are also basic requirements for being a secretary. That, and the ability to function well within a team environment!
Although employers in the London banking sector may require certain skills above and beyond the basic secretarial ones, it is also quite feasible that such skills can be acquired through in-job training. Such requirements will largely be dictated by the position and the organisational structure of the bank or financial institution in question. Be advised, however, that medical or legal secretaries will be expected to be familiar with the terminology and conventions of these respective professions.
Growth Prospects For Secretaries In Banking
Secretarial jobs can serve as stepping stones into more specialised accounting, finance or even human resources positions. Many secretaries gradually move into other specialised areas such as accounting, finance or the HR field, while still maintaining a certain admin component. As a secretary, there is no reason why you can’t steer your career towards becoming a ledger clerk, a payroll assistant/administrator or even a HR manager. And, as an added bonus, the overlap between the banking sector and a range of other finance and business related industries means that the banking secretary will never find themselves out on a limb as being over-specialised in one particular area. No experience is ever wasted, as the adage goes – especially when it comes to being a secretary, admin assistant or PA within London’s banking sector.
Finding a secretarial job online
If you’re not happy with the results you’ve been getting from secretarial recruitment companies, you’ve come to the right place! With dozens of new vacancies getting posted on a daily basis, LondonCareers.net is a goldmine for secretarial job leads. Use the navigation bar on the left to browse the listings – the perfect banking secretarial or junior banking secretarial position may be just a click away!
