UK&E Admin Team Lead (Malaysia)

Currie & Brown is one of the leading international physical asset management and construction consultancies, dedicated to advising clients worldwide with our expertise and experience in multiple sectors and services. We are differentiated by our people, innovation and reputation with a genuine global office network.

Our people, from the first-day apprentice to senior management make our business what it is today. Everybody in the Currie & Brown family, no matter how experienced they are, plays their own unique part in our success and have fun along the way.

The role – what is it we would like you to do? 

Currie & Brown is currently looking for a motivated and personable Project Support and Office Administrator to work with our busy, expanding team. The successful candidate will be an integral member, providing support to the whole office team and specifically the regional management team.

Responsibilities for the successful candidate will include:

• Working with the regional management team to ensure that clear goals and deliverables are well defined and achieved.
• Carrying out administrative support on certain projects as and when required.
• Diary and travel management
• Dealing with client calls and taking messages, ensuring swift response.
• Organising refreshments/in-house lunches for meetings.
• Typing correspondence, reports and other written documents using Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint.
• Assisting in the production of proposals and submissions to clients.
• Photocopying, binding, faxing and filing.
• Managing invoices and preparation of purchase orders
• Organising office events re company charities etc.
• Processing credit card authorisation forms and monthly reconciliation – completing spreadsheets
• Liaising with suppliers
• Organise couriers
• Processing Regional Managing Director’s expenses
• Attending twice yearly Tenant Meetings
• Office management
• Welcoming new starts and ensuring equipment ordered and log on details are organised
• Controlling and ordering stationery stock
• General reception duties and ensuring that office runs smoothly

What skills and attributes are we looking for from you:

• Three years plus experience of the pro-active management of an office including;
  • the management and undertaking of all the necessary admin functions,
  • undertaking the role of front-of-house ‘welcome’, both in reception, including the transfer of visitors from ground floor concierge to the office itself,
  • and the telephone switchboard from time-to-time.
• Three years plus experience providing project support and/or project administration services, supporting service delivery on projects, with multiple internal and external stakeholder interfaces.
• Excellent ability to create and/or edit documents and reports using MS Office.
• Previous experience of managing timesheets, financial information and invoicing using an Agresso financial management system (or similar) desirable, but not essential.
• Well organised, diligent, proactive, politely assertive, well-disciplined, and commercially astute.

• A team player with a ‘can-do’ attitude, patient, diplomatic, respectful, and flexible.

Why choose Currie & Brown?

Unlike some businesses, we prioritise for the long term and honour our commitments. We are compassionate and inclusive in the way we approach our work, and always look to invest in our people’s futures. Be it a desire to work internationally, a drive to progress, or even a curiosity to operate in a new sector, we are there for our people at every stage – providing advice, support and the structure to achieve. That is why so many of us have established and built successful careers here for so long.

We don’t offer just a job we offer a career with clear structured route to progression, and a track record of making international mobility happen with international moves encouraged on a permanent or secondment basis.

We are an international industry leader – Working for us provides the chance to work for a leading brand with a focus on excellence, being digitally-led in our approach, we present the chance to work on some of the world’s most prestigious projects and for some of the world’s top clients.

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day and that is why we firmly believe equality, diversity and inclusion should be taken seriously. Diverse people, backgrounds and experiences develop the most innovative of ideas, they are essential to our success, that is why we actively encourage applications from all backgrounds.  

We are a truly independent business where our people are empowered to make quick, agile decisions that drive real impact. As part of Sidara, we collaborate directly with some of the world’s brightest partner brands in our industry, offering exciting opportunities to innovate and grow.

We offer comprehensive benefits packages in all our global regions which have been specifically tailored to offer additional rewards to our employees from entry level to senior executives.