Executive Assistant - London

Executive Assistant - EA - Personal Assistant - PA - Senior Level - Banking - Financial Services - Executive Assistant.

Duties Include:

• To support the Security Director (primary focus) and his DRs (secondary focus) - managing their time and facilitating their requests for action.
• Have an appreciation and understanding of the needs of the Security Director and his DRs, ensuring full support is provided at all times.
• The job holder will need to exercise the highest levels of discretion & confidentiality at all times.
• The job holder will be required to build and maintain relationships with internal and external contacts.
• Build an understanding of the Security functions within the company.
• Complex diary management - to organise schedules for key activities, proactively manage the diary; schedule and prioritise meetings; ensuring obligations are met and ensure supporting papers are available in a timely manner prior to meetings/events.
• Provide detailed schedule of activity in advance, particularly when out of the office for prolonged periods of time.
• Ensure preparation and administration time is allowed for. Ensure evening commitments are balanced across the diary.
• Ensure preparation and administration time is accommodated within the diary, eg., annual assessments and individual reviews for all direct reports.
• Screen all incoming calls and correspondence with particular reference to diary management..
• Correspond with internal & external customers as needs dictate, providing high level of accurate work for internal and external viewing.

Skills Required:

• Solid experience within an EA/PA role to senior level.
• Consistently display positive, professional and approachable behaviours - displaying the company behaviours.
• Excellent communication skills - uses all relevant channels and resources to communicate effectively and proactively.
• Able to work with minimal supervision.
• Team working - ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with a wide range of people.
• Work co-operatively with others as part of a team.
• Organisation and detailed planning ability is essential.
• Demonstrate strong disciplines with regard to accuracy and quality of output.
• Discretion and confidentiality is essential.
• Flexibility to travel when required.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a global financial player who invest heavily in their staff and offer great career progression. For full job description please submit your CV or contact Stephen Savva at SPS Resourcing to discuss further.