DESCRIPTION

iwoca is breaking down the barriers that stop Europe’s 20 million small businesses from accessing finance. Traditional bank loans have slow application processes, inflexible terms and burdensome criteria. In contrast, we use cutting-edge technology to offer flexible access to credit with a five minute application process and a decision in hours.

Since 2012, we've lent over £500 million to over 20,000 businesses across Europe. Our customers include everything from cafés to car dealers, salons to solicitors. Along the way we have built a sophisticated technology platform, won numerous awards and grown a fun, and vibrant team.

However, we’re still near the start of our journey – our aim is to finance a million small businesses within a decade and so we need more smart, hands-on people to help us reach this goal.

The role

iwoca is a really wonderful place to work - the physical environment, the individuals and the culture we create together. We’re looking for an Office Assistant to help maintain a wonderful culture, support the team with administrative tasks and help maintain a fabulous office space.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, thoughtful, proactive person who can think on their feet, is keen to support and delight the iwoca team, and for whom no task is too big or too small!

Whether it’s ensuring the coffee machine is always full of beans, getting the pool table refelted, handling visitors and deliveries on reception, supporting our Exec team with travel bookings you'll play a massively important role in helping to create a really wonderful office environment.

This is a part-time, flexible role, approximately 15 hours per week - ideally for 3 days in the mornings where some flexibility is required around the hours you work.

Every day at the office will be different! Here is a list of some of the things you’d do:-

• Covering reception during busy periods and be the person who knows everyone, handles incoming calls and welcomes visitors
• Helping book rooms and calendar management
• Ensuring that we never run out of coffee beans (very, very important!), beer, and other snacks and drinks
• Receiving and sorting deliveries
• Supporting ad-hoc events, in the past we’ve organised company-wide events such as iwoca’s Christmas party, Summer sports’ day, charity bake-offs, and other fun stuff
• Listening to feedback and implementing great ideas for how to improve the environment or team events
• Lending a hand to other People Ops team members and helping with other ad-hoc duties
• Building and maintaining working relationships with a variety of external contractors

Through all of these responsibilities, you’ll be able to really make a difference to the happiness of a hard-working and fun team.

REQUIREMENTS

You’ll have:

• Excellent interpersonal skills
• A strong desire to help people, you’ll be someone who gets a lot of satisfaction from helping others
• Excellent organisational and time management skills
• Great attention to detail and numerical skills
• Creativity, you’ll bring some fresh ideas for how to make the office environment / events / etc even better than they already are
• A “can-do” attitude
• Great stakeholder management - able to quickly build trust with people from across the business
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
• Ability to research, analyse and present material clearly and concisely

BENEFITS

In addition to a competitive salary, we also provide the following:

• A smart, fun and internationally diverse team - together, we represent over 35 different nationalities
• An opportunity to kick-start your career in HR
• Company retreats in great locations - we have at least two per year in places like the French Alps and by the Spanish seaside
• A really lovely office in central London - we’re right by Tottenham Court Road, and close to the bars, theatres and restaurants in Soho and Fitzrovia
• Pool, ping pong, foosball tables and tournaments, morning yoga and an ever-growing number of active clubs (you can set up your own!) - such as climbing, chess, cycling, football, running, boxing, etc
• Regular novelty perks such as free massages, which can be proposed by anyone in the team
• Plenty of drinks and snacks in our office kitchen
• Cycle-to-work scheme for great value bikes
• Company-wide talks with internal and external speakers
• Enhanced maternity/paternity leave and shared parental leave
• Stock options for all employees after 6 months within the business
• 25 days holiday a year, plus all UK Bank holidays, plus a day off for your birthday
• The opportunity to give your time to support a charity of your choice, via a paid volunteering day
• Additional leave so that you can take more time to go travelling or to study, outside of your holiday allowance