Corporate Desktop Publishing/Graphics Specialist

Corporate Desktop Publishing/Graphics Specialist

Permanent 

£42,000

Hours - Monday: 9am – 5:30pm, Tuesday – Thursday: 11am – 7pm, Friday: 9am – 6pm

West End

Ref: CorporateDesktop

A brand new unique opportunity has arisen working within a medium sized independent advisory firm, this brand new role calls for an experienced Desktop Publisher and Graphics Specialist to join the company’s busy in-house creative services team on a permanent basis. This is a new full time position working the core hours of Monday: 9am – 5:30pm, Tuesday – Thursday: 11am – 7pm and Friday: 9am – 6pm with some flexibility required.

This successful candidate will need to have experience and knowledge of working within a financial organisation and keen to start a new career for a fantastic firm based in the West End of London. The role requires someone who has advanced skills in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint as well as some Adobe Creative Suite experience with InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator being advantageous.  Other key responsibilities are listed as follows: 

Some key responsibilities within this role will be as follows:

• Creating and formatting company-branded PowerPoint presentations to high standards of accuracy and consistency
• Formatting PowerPoint presentations to clients’ templates
• Identifying and initiating improvements to graphics and layouts
• Creating, formatting and editing Word documents
• Providing MS Office support and troubleshooting – assisting team members with Word/PowerPoint/Excel queries
• Working on PDF documents using Adobe Acrobat Pro – including editing, watermarking and redacting
• Creating a new “look and feel” for client templates in PowerPoint and Word
• Designing: document covers, invitations, advertisements and internal marketing collateral
• Updating the company website
• Photography – staff and office for pitchbooks and websites

The desired candidate should have the following experience to be selected for interview:

• Advanced / Expert knowledge of MS Office – 2010 version (preferred) or 2007
• Exceptional PowerPoint and Word skills
• Intermediate skills in Excel including charts and formatting
• Good working knowledge of software in Adobe Creative Suite / Creative Cloud (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator).
• Demonstrable experience in a time sensitive, deadline driven environment is essential
• Ability to advise clients on the best and most appropriate solutions to their visual communication needs
• Accuracy and an eye for detail and design.
• Excellent relationship management, business communication and interpersonal skills
• Must possess a positive “can-do” attitude, with an eagerness to learn
• Able to work independently to organise and prioritise own workload
• Banking / Financial services background is desirable, but not essential

If you are interested in this fantastic opportunity and can work the detailed days and hours list above on a permanent basis, please do send your CV to Gemma-Grima Brown today who is looking forward to hearing from you.

Important Notice

It is HYFs policy, as a matter of courtesy, to respond to all applications within three working days. However, because of the volume of applications, we are sometimes unable to respond to individual candidates. If we have not contacted you within three working days your application has been unsuccessful and your details have not been retained. Please apply for any other position that you may see in the future. Thank you.

HYF is a Recruitment Agency and is advertising this permanent vacancy on behalf of one of its Clients.