Receptionist

Job Type

General Description

Operates multi-line telephone system to answer incoming calls and directs callers to appropriate personnel. Welcomes on-site visitors, determines nature of business, and announces visitors to appropriate personnel by performing the following duties:

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Retrieves messages from voice mail and forwards to appropriate personnel.
• Answers incoming telephone calls, determines purpose of callers, and forwards calls to appropriate personnel or department.
• Takes and delivers messages or transfers calls to voice mail when appropriate personnel are unavailable.
• Answers questions about organization and provides callers with address, directions, and other information.
• Welcomes on-site visitors and directs them to appropriate personnel.
• Monitors visitor access and issues passes when required.
• Updates appointment calendars.
• Receives, sorts, and routes mail, and maintains and routes publications.
• Maintains fax machines, assists users, sends faxes, and retrieves and routes incoming faxes.
• Takes payments for services and products.
• Prepares travel vouchers.
• Orders, receives, and maintains office supplies.
• Creates and prints fax cover sheets, memos, correspondence, reports, and other documents when necessary. Performs other clerical duties as needed, such as filing, photocopying, and collating.

Education

24-60 Bachelor's degree credits approved in Business Administration or otherOne year of business related college courses or the equivalent

Experience

 

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

 

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Computer Skills:

Knowledge of one or more of the following softwares: Word Processing, Presentations, Spreadsheet, Internet, Internal Business softwares, other related software.

Office Administration:

Knowledge of administrative/ office procedures and systems such as word processing, file and record management, transcription, form design, and other office procedures. Also have knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personnel services.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. Stress levels may increase due to seasonality.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle or feel, and talk or hear.

 

 

BUSINESS CORE COMPETENCIES:

Business competencies look at specific behaviors expected from all employees throughout Popular.

Work Schedule

Monday- Friday 

8am-5pm

Values

Passion for PeopleSucceed TogetherOwn Every MomentBuild the Future

Additional Requirements

Important: The candidate must provide evidence of academic preparation or courses related to the job posting, if necessary.

 

ABOUT US

Popular is Puerto Rico’s leading financial institution and have been evolving since it was founded over a century ago. From a small bank it has developed into a large corporation that offer a wide variety of services and financial solutions to our customers, with presence in the United States, the Caribbean and Latin America.

As employees, we are dedicated to making our customers dreams come true by offering financial solutions in each stage of their life. Our extensive trajectory demonstrates the resiliency and determination of our employees to innovate, reach for the right solutions and strongly support the communities we serve; therefore, we value their diverse skills, experiences and backgrounds.

We reaffirm our commitment to always offer essential financial services and solutions for our customers and communitie