Marketing & Design Assistant

Headquartered in London, HaysMac is a chartered accountancy and tax advisory firm offering a wide range of professional services, from audit and assurance, taxation and outsourcing to business advisory and transactions to a number of sectors spanning Financial Services and Media, Marketing and Advertising to Property, Retail and eCommerce and Social Purpose.

By combining technical excellence, commercial insight, and deep sector and market knowledge, we are uniquely positioned to support key markets, including Entrepreneurs and Private Businesses, Equity Capital Markets, International Enterprises, Private Equity, and Private Wealth.

Energised by the opportunity of perpetual change and the need to solve significant problems, HaysMac’s 41 partners and 600+ staff is a community of experts who do serious work, seriously well. This is a cutting-edge firm with traditional priorities like hard work, helpfulness and staying true to our word.

Spend any time here and you’ll see that HaysMac doesn’t operate like your standard, grey accountancy firm. It’s a happy, dynamic atmosphere where people genuinely enjoy coming to work. This feel-good factor results in personable relationships that last – with both colleagues and clients.

When people come to work at HaysMac, they tend to stick around. Our supportive culture, the opportunity to carve out a new niche, wealth of development opportunities and our collaborative approach keeps the HaysMac team loyal. This loyalty has been a key driver of our steady, organic growth – over 80% over the last five years.

We’re also one of the UK’s best places to work, having been recognised by The Sunday Times for two years running, and awarded excellent scores for employee wellbeing, inclusivity and workplace satisfaction. We’re also one of the ‘Best Places to Work for Women’.

This is the HaysMac way.

For business. For people. For good.

The Role and Responsibilities

This is an excellent opportunity to join a busy, professional and highly regarded team in a role that offers exposure to a wide range of marketing and business development activities and, as such, a solid foundation for someone seeking to develop a career in professional services marketing and business development. The role will be split across marketing, communications, brand and design, event management and administrative support, requiring someone with proven coordination and prioritisation skills.

• Communications
• Produce a regular suite of internal communications to the firm
• Working with the Marketing Managers to prepare and distribute insights, articles, publications and event communications to clients, targets and our internal audience
• Create content for social media channels
• Work with internal committees including Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, CSR, Environmental, Wellbeing, Social and CONNECT to share key updates on initiatives, policies and events
• Press coverage circulation via all marketing channels
• Brand & Design
• Briefings/reports for sectors
• Regular updates and web maintenance, including media support and SEO
• Merchandise orders and inventory
• Photography (scheduling and website support to match brand style)
• Events
• End-to-end event management and co-ordination including coordinating invitee and RSVP lists, issuing a communication suite, preparing name badges, producing and collating delegate packs, reviewing feedback, on the day support, issuing internal communications, and evaluating ROI
• Support larger firmwide events
• Support with external coordination of exhibitions and conferences
• Monitor and respond to central enquiries
• Assist with event bookings

Other duties

• Working with the CRM
• Administrative support
• Firmwide project support

The Candidate

Work-Based Competencies

• Essential
• Strong writing skills – in web content/advertising/direct mail
• Strong organisation and prioritisation skills and the ability to work to deadlines
• Microsoft Office suite – particularly Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Design – Adobe InDesign and Illustrator
• WordPress
• Desirable
• Events coordination experience
• Social media – LinkedIn, Instagram and Tik Tok
• CRM system experience, preferably with Dynamics 365

Behavioural competencies

• A self-starter and highly organised
• Ability to effectively time-manage multiple competing deadlines and stakeholders
• Confidence: professional, articulate and able to communicate with all levels externally and internally
• Resilient, persistent, persuasive and assertive
• Ability to build good relationships with colleagues at all levels

You will also be:

• A reliable team player liaising with all departments within the firm
• Good at building effective relationships with colleagues and partners
• Flexible on working hours in order to support the firm’s events, which include but are not limited to early morning breakfast events and evening networking events. N.B. the firm operates a TOIL policy.
• Proactive
• Keen to develop marketing, communications design and events experience

Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion, belief, age, marital status, background, pregnancy, or caring responsibilities.

We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought within our teams and are fully committed to embracing the talents of people with autism, dyslexia, ADHD, and other forms of neurocognitive variation.

We will always seek to make appropriate adjustments to recruitment, workplaces, and work processes to be fully inclusive to people with different needs and working styles.

If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments for you from application onwards, please email [email protected]