Administrative Assistant

Description:

• Will provide moderately complex, varied-to-routine administrative and clerical support.

• Coordinate, integrate and implement assigned administrative or staff functions.

• Receive and relay messages and respond to varied to routine administrative requests.

• Solicit, collect and organize documentation and data, performing moderately complex data entry into one or more systems.

• Schedule and coordinate meetings, diaries and travel arrangements.

• Apply knowledge of department operations and infrastructure, policies and procedures to perform moderately complex administrative processes.

• Handle moderately complex clerical, administrative, technical or customer support issues under general supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.

• Validate the receiving information on loads of cattle, that directly lead to the payment process for these loads of cattle received.

• Transferring to SAP to purchase cattle.

• Entering the data that comes in from the beef yards that they are purchasing from.

• Speaking with cattle producers.

Qualifications:

• High school diploma, secondary education level or equivalent

• Two years of related work experience.

• Microsoft office, Computer, and Excel skills

• Math skills and experience with handling large amounts of data

• Good communication skills.

Benefits:

Healthcare Insurance: Synectics offers eligible employees and their dependents healthcare coverage through BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois. Eligibility begins on the 1st day of the calendar month following 60 days of continuous full time employment with Synectics. Premiums are subsidized by Synectics.

Dental Insurance: Synectics offers eligible employees and their dependents a dental plan through MetLife. Eligibility begins on the 1st day of the calendar month following 60 days of continuous full time employment with Synectics.

Vision Insurance: Synectics offers eligible employees vision insurance through VSP. Eligibility begins on the 1st day of the calendar month following 60 days of continuous full time employment with Synectics.401(k) Plan: The Synectics Inc. Investment Savings Retirement Plan. Synectics offers all employees who are 21 years of age or older the opportunity to invest in the 401(k) Plan on the first enrollment date that is at least 30 days after employment begins. Enrollment dates are each January 1st, April 1st, July 1st, and October 1st.

Technical Certification Bonus: Synectics is pleased to award its employees a bonus of up to $500 for an approved professional certification. In determining the bonus amount, Synectics will consider the cost of the test(s) for any certification relating to your current position, achieved during your employment with us. Only one Certification Bonus per calendar year may be awarded per employee. Only current, active employees will be eligible to receive this bonus. It will be awarded 90 days after the Synectics office has received documentation confirming the successful completion of the certification.

Synectics is an equal opportunity employer.