Finance Administrator
Job description
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Location: Chester (full-time, office-based)
Pay: £13.34 per hour (£26,000 per annum)
Contract: Ongoing temporary / Temp to Perm for the right person
Hours: Monday to Friday, 9:00am - 5:30pm
We are currently recruiting an Operations Administrator to join a busy Lending Operations team within a growing UK financial services organisation. This role plays a key part in supporting the lending lifecycle, ensuring documentation is produced accurately, communications are managed efficiently, and operational processes run smoothly.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone with strong administrative skills who enjoys working in a fast-paced, professional environment and is looking for long-term stability.
Key Responsibilities- Creating and maintaining lending and customer documentation
- Drafting formal correspondence and letters to solicitors
- Producing bespoke correspondence for clients, accurately extracting and inputting information
- Managing a shared email inbox and directing queries to the appropriate internal teams
- Handling incoming post, scanning, and electronic document management
- Preparing and processing documents for submission to the Land Registry
- Requesting, tracking and chasing signed documentation where required
The business is a UK-based bank with a strong reputation for professionalism, collaboration and customer focus. Employees describe the organisation as forward-thinking, values-driven and supportive, with a genuine emphasis on accuracy, teamwork and doing things the right way.
The working environment is structured yet hands-on, offering exposure to real lending operations within a bank that is continuing to grow and invest in its people.
What We're Looking For- Strong attention to detail and high levels of accuracy
- Confidence working with detailed documentation
- Ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced office environment
- Strong written communication skills
- Previous banking or financial services experience is beneficial but not essential
- A proactive, reliable and professional approach to work
- Full-time, Monday to Friday role with no weekend work
- Opportunity to move from temporary to permanent employment
- Experience within a specialist lending environment
- Supportive team culture within a growing financial organisation
Adecco acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. The Adecco Group UK & Ireland is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
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Application advice
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⭐ Lead your Personal Statement with lending operations or financial services admin experience, as the advert explicitly flags banking background as beneficial and the role sits within a UK bank's Lending Operations team.
📊 Quantify your document handling: e.g. 'Processed 80+ mortgage documents weekly with 99% accuracy, reducing re-work by 15%' — the role centres on high-volume, accurate documentation.
🎯 Specifically mention Land Registry or solicitor correspondence experience if you have it — these are named responsibilities and will stand out against generic admin CVs.
📧 Highlight shared inbox management with a volume metric (e.g. 'Triaged 50+ daily emails across a shared inbox') as directing queries efficiently is a core duty listed in the advert.
🤝 Emphasise temp-to-perm reliability signals on your CV — note contract lengths completed, attendance records, or employer references — as the advert explicitly offers conversion for the right person.
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- •Managed a shared lending operations inbox handling 60+ daily queries, routing 100% of correspondence to the correct internal team within a 2-hour SLA.
- •Produced and quality-checked 75+ bespoke client and solicitor letters per week, maintaining a 98% first-time accuracy rate across a 6-month contract.
- •Prepared and submitted 30+ Land Registry document packages monthly, tracking outstanding signed documentation and reducing average turnaround time by 4 days.
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Dear Hiring Manager,
Adecco's Finance Administrator vacancy within Chester's Lending Operations team is precisely the environment in which I thrive — one that demands high accuracy in document production and confident handling of formal solicitor correspondence. The temp-to-perm structure and the bank's focus on lending lifecycle administration align directly with my career goals.
My background in financial services administration has equipped me with hands-on experience managing shared email inboxes, producing bespoke client correspondence, and maintaining electronic document management systems to a high standard. In a previous role, I processed over 70 loan-related documents per week, liaising with solicitors and tracking signed documentation through to completion — skills that map directly to the responsibilities outlined in this advert.
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Interview questions
10 questions generated from this advert.
Technical
- ›How have you managed a shared email inbox in a previous role, and what system did you use to prioritise and direct queries?
- ›Describe your experience with electronic document management — which platforms have you used and how did you ensure version control?
- ›Have you prepared or submitted documents to the Land Registry before? Walk us through the process you followed.
- ›How do you extract and input data accurately from complex documentation while minimising errors?
- ›What experience do you have drafting formal correspondence to solicitors or other legal/professional parties?
Behavioural
- ›Tell me about a time you identified an error in a document before it was sent — what did you do and what was the outcome?
- ›Describe a situation where you had to manage multiple competing deadlines in a busy administrative role. How did you prioritise?
- ›Give an example of when you had to chase a third party repeatedly for outstanding documentation. How did you handle it professionally?
- ›Tell me about a time you had to quickly learn a new internal process or system. How did you approach it?
- ›Describe a situation where a colleague or client was unhappy with a communication you produced. How did you resolve it?
STAR answer examples
Model answers using the Situation-Task-Action-Result framework. Adapt to your own experience.
Tell me about a time you identified an error in a document before it was sent — what did you do and what was the outcome?
Give an example of when you had to chase a third party repeatedly for outstanding documentation. How did you handle it professionally?