Andrea Otto

Department Secretary

Kölbingen, Germany
Experience
Aug 2024 - Present
1 year

Department Secretary

R+Vre

Maternity leave cover until 08/2025

  • relieving department managers in daily business
  • travel expense reports
  • office supplies management
  • scheduling and calendar management
  • planning events and trainings
  • maintaining monitoring lists
  • HR subprojects: onboarding new employees
Apr 2024 - Jun 2024
3 months

Financial accounting & Datev accounting training

Mar 2023 - Sep 2023
7 months
Cologne, Germany

Senior Management Assistant

Cogitanda Claims Services GmbH

  • supporting the managing directors in daily tasks
  • creating Excel overviews
  • travel management and expense reports
  • planning team events
  • HR subprojects
Nov 2015 - Jan 2023
7 years 3 months
Frankfurt, Germany

Office Manager, Team Assistant

TPR Legal law firm

  • (Part-time, 30 hrs/week)
  • preparatory accounting
  • processing and checking incoming/outgoing invoices
  • booking business trips and travel expense reports
  • communication with suppliers and external service providers
  • management of office supplies
  • creating overviews in Excel and Smartsheet (with workflow)
  • (re)organizing filing
  • organizing office procedures
  • onboarding new employees
  • personnel management
  • planning and conducting trial days
  • feedback and rejection interviews with applicants, including correspondence
  • training new colleagues on all processes and various tools used
  • creating and maintaining digital files
  • proofreading legal briefs
  • supporting attorneys
  • document automation
  • taking meeting minutes
  • data entry and processing
  • deadline tracking
Apr 2014 - Present
11 years 4 months

Entrepreneur, Office Manager, Freelance Secretary, Financial Accounting

Das A und O Für Ihr Büro

Client list on request, including TPR Legal and Concence Gesellschaft für Marken und Marketing

Jan 2014 - Mar 2014
3 months

Reorientation: preparation phase for self-employment, client acquisition

Aug 2013 - Dec 2013
5 months
Wiesbaden, Germany

Project Support (Temp)

R+V Reinsurance

  • supporting leadership with data analysis and interpretation
  • electronic preparation of documents and archiving in the electronic archive
  • travel preparation for underwriters
  • initialing documents and preparing them for signature
  • cleaning up contracts and policy management system
  • creating Excel files
  • comparing contract versions and marking relevant changes
  • (temporary support role)
Feb 2012 - Mar 2013
1 year 2 months

Relocation from Dortmund to Hadamar, active job search

Nov 2010 - Jan 2012
1 year 3 months

Sales Assistant

Tempton Business GmbH

  • correspondence and quotes (in German and English)
  • appointment coordination and monitoring
  • organizing and booking travel (worldwide), visa procurement, travel expense reporting
  • (fixed-term assignment)
Oct 2010 - Oct 2010
1 month

Active job search

Apr 2010 - Sep 2010
6 months
Hagen, Germany

Commercial Clerk in Inside Sales

Scafom Rux GmbH

  • consulting and selling scaffolds and scaffold parts as well as accessories
  • creating quotes and order confirmations (in German and English)
  • order processing
Nov 2009 - Mar 2010
5 months

Active job search

Aug 2008 - Oct 2009
1 year 3 months
Lünen, Germany

Purchasing/Sales Secretary

Atrium Enterprises GmbH

  • appointment coordination and tracking
  • creating quotes, general correspondence and other documents (in German and English)
  • management of intellectual property (patents, design and utility models)
  • organizing and booking travel (Far East)
Jun 2008 - Jul 2008
2 months

Active job search

Nov 2007 - May 2008
7 months
Dortmund, Germany

Customer Service Representative

Grafisches Zentrum Dortmund GmbH

Aug 2007 - Oct 2007
3 months

Further training in commercial qualification for business clerks

Comcave.College GmbH

Business English with exam by the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), Level 1, result: pass with distinction („very good“)

Jun 2003 - Jul 2007
4 years 2 months
Lünen, Germany

Commercial Clerk

Association of Print & Media Westphalia-Lippe e.V. (after merger: Association of Print + Media North Rhine-Westphalia e.V.)

Feb 2003 - Oct 2003
9 months
Dortmund, Germany

Commercial Clerk

Allbecon Personnel Services GmbH

Placed initially at Vodafone D2, then at the Association of Print & Media Westphalia-Lippe e.V.

Jun 2001 - Jan 2002
8 months
Dortmund, Germany

Commercial Clerk

Scivias Gesellschaft für Personalmanagement

Jun 2000 - May 2001
1 year
Dortmund, Germany

Legal and Notary Assistant

Himmelmann and Pohlmann Law Firm

Jul 1996 - Jun 2000
4 years

Training as Legal and Notary Assistant

Kowallik and Modersohn Attorneys

Initially an internship as part of a vocational program of the Kolping Education Center in Hamm, from 8/97 training in the same law firm

Degree: Legal and Notary Assistant

Final grade: „good“

Summary
  • Legal background: legal and notary assistant
  • organizational talent
  • quick comprehension
  • flexibility
  • problem-solving mindset
Languages
German
Native
English
Advanced
Education
Jul 1996 - Jun 2000

Kowallik and Modersohn Attorneys

Legal and Notary Assistant · Legal Administration · good

Certifications & licenses

Business English (LCCI) Level 1

London Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Driver's License Class A

Driver's License Class B

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