Job Title: Finance/Admin Executive
Employer: Graphic Alliance
Salary: £20-£30k (depending on experience)
Contract type: Permanent
Country: United Kingdom
Location Details: London WC2
Start Date: May 2011
Application Deadline: 23rd April 2011

Job Description
Graphic Alliance – specialists in eCommerce for luxury and fashion brands – seeks a bright individual with a passion for the internet to help us manage our daily finances and basically take charge of the administration of the office. Our ambitious candidate will be required to handle the company accounts and oversee the running of the office, working closely with the Finance Director.

You will be required to support the Managing Director and manage the Office Assistant. You must be confident and work well under pressure. Like all Graphic Alliance people, you will be expected to bring bags of energy, enthusiasm, initiative and excellent communication skills.

Essential requirements
• Accounts experience required and knowledge of Sage highly desirable
– Production of sales invoices and credit control
– Management of suppliers and purchase ledger
– Management of the bank accounts
– Maintenance of nominal ledger and monthly journals
– Production of monthly management accounts on excel
• Administration of WIP/Job Costing system, including close liaison with directors and staff to ensure timeliness and accuracy of information
• Office management experience
• Proficient in Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc)
• Excellent communication skills – Fluent English, written and spoken
• A natural multitask attitude and ability to take initiative
• Professional approach and able to cope with pressure
• Articulate communication and initiative towards new projects
• Interest in design, content, technology, marketing and branding

Please email CVs to Alison Young – alison@graphicalliance.co.uk

PLEASE NOTE THAT DUE TO THE AMOUNT OF APPLICATIONS RECEIVED IT IS NOT ALWAYS POSSIBLE TO REPLY.

Job Description:

Graphic Alliance – specialists in eCommerce for luxury goods and fashion brands – seeks a bright all-rounder with a passion for the internet to help us organise the office and basically run the show. Our ambitious office assistant will be required to act as first point of contact for all clients visiting the agency, directing calls to the appropriate person, assisting the production teams with ad-hoc admin/marketing projects as well as making the office environment a fun and rewarding place to work. You must be confident and thrive on being a social butterfly. This role will require bags of energy, enthusiasm, initiative and excellent communication.

Essential requirements:

• Experience in an office/work environment and a diverse team
• A natural multitask attitude and ability to take initiative
• Excellent communication skills – Fluent English, written and spoken
• Articulate communication and initiative toward new projects
• Willing to progress in the media industry and make the most of the opportunity
• Professional approach and able to cope with pressure
• Proficient in Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc)
• Interest in design, content, technology, marketing, and branding

Day-to-day duties:

• Meeting and greeting the visitors
• Preparation of meeting room for all internal and client meetings
• Informing the host of their arrival and looking after them in the meantime
• Taking care of internal and external telephone calls
• Receiving all enquiries in a polite, professional manner
• Responsible for administration duties to include the daily post, booking couriers, taxis
• Managing suppliers and maintaining adequate office supplies
• Administrative tasks including filing, photocopying and faxing
• Answering all client queries and acting on client requests
• Supporting our team of designers and programmers
• Providing basic telephone support to digital media clients
• Assistant to the Managing Partner in the absence of the Manager

Alongside your duties you will be required to provide ad-hoc support to the client account managers. This might involve assisting with PowerPoint presentations for new business pitches, data inputting for client websites, and online marketing research.

Please email CVs to Alison Young – alison@graphicalliance.co.uk

PLEASE NOTE THAT DUE TO THE AMOUNT OF APPLICATIONS RECEIVED IT IS NOT ALWAYS POSSIBLE TO REPLY.

Job Description:

We require a junior PHP web developer to join our technology team at our Covent Garden studio. Graphic Alliance, a lively web design company specialising in luxury goods and fashion brands, offer a competitive salary, health insurance and all manner of perks such as Thursday post-work drinks and the much-talked about summer party.

The successful candidate will need to be passionate about development, desperate to learn, have keen analytical skills and love working as part of a team. Commercial experience in PHP and Front End technologies such as HTML and JavaScript would be ideal although a smart computer-related graduate would also be considered.

Working on a full range of software development tasks using PHP and MySQL, they will also be required to assist in front-end development using languages such as JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

The successful candidate must possess the following technological skills:

• PHP
• MySQL
• Javascript
• HTML/CSS

Some working knowledge of the following would be a bonus:

• jQuery
• Wordpress
• Zend
• Magento
• SEO/GoogleWebmaster etc

If you’re a PHP Web Developer and are looking to take the next step in your career, working with some of the world’s leading brands, please send your CV today.

Please email CVs to Alison Young – Alison@graphicalliance.co.uk

PLEASE NOTE THAT DUE TO THE AMOUNT OF APPLICATIONS RECEIVED IT IS NOT ALWAYS POSSIBLE TO REPLY.

Job Description:

Graphic Alliance seeks a multi-talented and enthusiastic interactive designer with an intuitive sense of design and an obsession for pixel-perfection. Graphic Alliance, a lively web design company specialising in luxury goods and fashion brands, offer a competitive salary, health insurance and all manner of perks such as Thursday post-work drinks and the much-talked about summer party.

Your portfolio should demonstrate an intimate knowledge of typography, layout, and strong conceptual thinking. You should have the ability to communicate well, take art direction, proactively solve problems and have the ability to deliver high quality work under time constraints.

Essential requirements:

• Strong sense of design composition and typography
• Intimate knowledge of CSS and HTML
• Experience with PHP and ideally WordPress
• A solid understanding of the web and interactivity
• Passionate about design(!)

Please email CVs to Alison Young – alison@graphicalliance.co.uk

An online portfolio is required for consideration. UK residents only please.

PLEASE NOTE THAT DUE TO THE AMOUNT OF APPLICATIONS RECEIVED IT IS NOT ALWAYS POSSIBLE TO REPLY.

Job Description:

Graphic Alliance’s success has been driven by its strong client relationships. Your task is to develop existing client relationships and give strategic direction on the accounts that you manage or bring in. You are required to be financially literate, both to help develop business cases for new work and to oversee all financial forecasts and reconciliations for clients. You should position yourself alongside the client’s marketing team to develop long-term mutually beneficial relationships that ensure the ongoing success of the relationship.

Your role has the following key objectives and measures:

1. To manage the strategic direction of your accounts

2. To provide digital and online consultancy to your clients

3. To generate new project work from your clients where appropriate

4. To ensure we have one quarter visibility of budgets and financial forecasts

5. To improve client satisfaction wherever possible

6. To act as a point of contact and consultation by clients

7. To ensure the consistent flow of work generated, through the team

8. To ensure collaborative ways of working between teams within GA

You will own the conversion of all the revenue for your allocated clients, as defined by the company budget, into contracted revenue within the financial year. You will also own any incremental new business revenue from your allocated clients that meet your targets. Therefore you will need experience of digital strategy, interactive design, user experience, web content and editorial, eCommerce, software development and online marketing and SEO.

You will need the following skills:

- Strong negotiation and leadership skills

- Team leader and team player

- Ability to get involved, get your hands dirty

- Strong relationship management skills

- Good understanding of digital marketing

- Ability to drive business

- Strong communication skills

- Great attention to detail

- Able to work at high speed and intensity

- Accountability for members in your team

- Enthusiasm, energy and hunger for success

- Personal drive to deliver value to end customer

- Someone who always looks to over deliver

- Ready to step up where necessary

Please email CVs to Alison Young – alison@graphicalliance.co.uk PLEASE NOTE THAT DUE TO THE AMOUNT OF APPLICATION RECEIVED IT IS NOT ALWAYS POSSIBLE TO REPLY.

Graphic Alliance is one of the UK’s leading digital agencies with offices in Covent Garden, London. Many of the world’s most important brands trust us to look after their online presences, from eCommerce website through to Facebook and Twitter. Our core expertise lies in creating online destinations and influencing people to visit them. Graphic Alliance services iconic brands including Vivienne Westwood, The Conran Shop, Charles Stanley, Theo Fennell, Silver Cross, Temperley and the Qatar Financial Centre.

Salary: £25-£35k depending on experience
Contract type: Permanent
Country: United Kingdom
Location Details: London WC2

Please email CVs to Alison Young – alison@graphicalliance.co.uk

PLEASE NOTE THAT DUE TO THE AMOUNT OF APPLICATIONS RECEIVED IT IS NOT ALWAYS POSSIBLE TO REPLY

Graphic Alliance – specialists in eCommerce for luxury goods and fashion brands – seeks a bright allrounder with a passion for the internet to help us extend and optimise our clients’ social media strategies.

This combined role involves a mix of editorial, social media, SEO and PR, and is primarily intended to help our clients’ marketing teams to improve the merchandising of its products in the digital space. This is a great opportunity to work with A-list clients like The Conran Shop, Vivienne Westwood, Silver Cross and Temperley London. Perks include a competitive salary, offices in Covent Garden, health insurance, monthly nights out, the legendary summer party, cookies of the edible variety, beers on a Thursday……

Day-to-day tasks

• Blogger & journalist communication
• Influencer engagement
• Social media management
• Reputation monitoring and management
• On and offsite community engagement
• Editorial / production tasks
• Press release writing and distribution
• Website content and copywriting
• Strategic SEO initiatives
• Measurement and analysis of results

Candidate requirements

• Excellent writing skills
• Attention to detail
• Passion for the internet
• Understanding and experience of SEO, PR and social media networks
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to work autonomously
• Commercially astute
• Able to work in Central London
• Sense of humour
• Experience in online PR, SEO or social media role
• Digital marketing expertise
• Solid grasp of Google Analytics
• Onsite optimisation experience / knowledge
• Production skills (Photoshop, Word, Excel, multimedia etc)
• Experience of blogging
• Copy editing / proof reading skills
• Entrepreneurial flair
• Statistical analysis skills

Brownie points

• Relevant degree or higher
• Retail / merchandising experience
• More than three years experience in the internet industry
• Graphic Alliance facebook fan / twitter follower

Salary: £25-£35k depending on experience
Contract type: Permanent
Country: United Kingdom
Location Details: London WC2
Start Date: August 2010
Application Deadline: 8th August 2010

Please email CVs to Alison Young – alison@graphicalliance.co.uk

PLEASE NOTE THAT DUE TO THE AMOUNT OF APPLICATIONS RECEIVED IT IS NOT ALWAYS POSSIBLE TO REPLY.

- Excellent skill and at least 2 years experience in using PHP.
- At least 2 years experience in using MySQL.
- At least 2 years experience in using Javascript. (This should include the use of third party JS libraries such as Prototype, Moo Tools, JQuery, etc. as well as extensive use of AJAX.)
- Experience in using CSS.
- Experience in using Smarty PHP Templates.
- Experience in installing, configuring and maintaining a LAMP environment.
- Experience in working with Content Management Systems

If you would like to apply, please email your CV and covering letter to: Alison@graphicalliance.co.uk

- Excellent skill and at least 4 years experience in using PHP.
- Excellent skill and at least 4 years experience in using MySQL. (This should include a good knowledge of the SQL language to be able to build and optimise complex queries.)
- Excellent skill and at least 4 years experience in using Javascript. (This should include the use of third party JS libraries such as Prototype, Moo Tools, JQuery, etc.and also extensive use of AJAX.)
- Good skill and at least 2 years experience in using CSS.
- Experience in using Smarty PHP Templates.
- Experience in installing, configuring and maintaining a LAMP environment.
- Ability to evaluate design templates and consider feasibility of various solutions for implementing required functionality.
- Ability to innovate and prototype complex user interfaces using HTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP.
- Ability to show initiative and propose or develop alternative solutions/methods/practices.

If you think you have what it takes to join our team, please send a covering letter and CV to: Alison@graphicalliance.co.uk