Many Portland businesses have taken advantage of our Clerical Office Duties

  • Accountants
  • Business Coaches
  • Sporting groups
  • Financial Planners
  • Human Resource consultants
  • Solicitors
  • Doctors and Nurses
  • Private Individuals
  • Speakers
  • Community Groups
  • Tradespeople
  • Property Developers
  • Government Departments
  • Retail
  • Cafes/ Restaurants
  • Gardening and Landscaping Services
  • Hairdressers
  • Body Corporates

We can help your small business office overcome its administration problems.

Chrissy Hawker Secretarial Service is based in Portland, Victoria and offers business administration services to suit your needs.

We pride ourselves on the quality of our work, our confidentiality when dealing with your business matters and on the ability to be able to respond quickly and efficiently to your requests.

We can help you grow your business.

There is so much stress, so many demands and so much paperwork on a business today and we understand the day to day complexities in running a small to medium sized business.

We offer many services that will help you and your business grow and be successful.

Focus on making sales

Wordprocessing or other specific office or secretarial tasks shouldn't be left uncompleted, but when you are an overworked small business owner, you may not have much choice.

Our services are flexible enough to meet your needs

All it takes is a phone call or an email, and we will look after the rest.

We are 100% focussed on helping you making your business a success.

Don't Stress - remove the burden of your office work!

Pay someone to actually do your work - not waste your time & money.

Portland Office and Secretarial Services

Portland Secretarial Services are here to help the small businesses succeed.. to offer our reliable, efficient and supportive services by assuring the task will be taken care of by people who really care.

Bookkeeping, Cheque preparation and Billing

Staff are trained in:

  • compiling account payable listings ready for approval
  • raising cheques for signature
  • organising the payment of the account.

Our office is also used as the “Accounts payable” Department of your organisation and we will take calls in regards to your accounts to relieve any pressure you may have. Once cheques have been raised, we will enter the details into an accounting software package so that we may reconcile, prepare balanced reports for your BAS requirements.

Paying Accounts

Just inform us how much can be spent at any one time and our office will do the rest; pay the accounts, file the accounts and record for bookkeeping purposes.

Banking

Direct your payments to come to our service and we arrange to have them credited into your nominated account; enter the details into an accounting software package and reconcile / prepare balanced reports for BAS requirements.

Telephone Answering / Messages and Appointments

Chiropractors, Doctors, Masseurs use our office phone number for appointments. We schedule the appointment book for you and deliver or fax the schedule in readiness for the next day. This is a very useful situation for self employed professionals lacking support staff, and yet don’t want to be interrupted.

Mail Collection & Sorting Letters

Direct mail so that professional staff can attend to it, file it, or put aside for you in readiness for your instructions.

Training

Private training on email and internet as well as bookkeeping and general office practices is offered to get the general “out of touch” person using those services. Our service will assist clients 'one on one' so that they gain the level of confidence needed for everyday duties in their own small business.

Newsletters & Leaflets

Our office will compile business leaflets, newsletters, flyers, funeral booklets, party invitations etc. When school office staff away, give us a call to type up the school newsletter. Club newsletters are compiled, printed and copied.

Mailing list Management

Compile mailing list spreadsheets, keeping them updated makes it easy for regular correspondence to be sent out. We will prepare mailing labels for each particular organization for use at any time.

Resume preparation

Resumes that work. Just 15 minutes time is all we need with you to compile an interview winning personal resume.

Copying Service

Office Document Photocopying, Disc Copying, transferring photos onto CD are some of our services

Facsimile / Email Service

Faxing and Email service including STD, Overseas, Local faxing Inward or Outward. We can also send and receive Emails on your behalf...conditions do apply. This service is offered as there are still many business and ordinary folk out there, that do not have their own facilities.

Web Design and Hosting

We work with a professional web design business who create business websites at affordable rates.

Other Services

When an emergency arises, call our office to take over and keep the wheels turning until you return.