Executive Assistant to Group Chief Audit Executive

This role is based in the United Kingdom and as such all normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom.

Join us as an Executive Assistant to Group Chief Audit Executive

• We’ll look to you to support a senior leader on Group ExCo with the execution of key business management and people processes.
• You’ll be managing the executive office, ensuring it runs smoothly, providing efficient and effective support, while continually seeking and implementing improvements.
• This engaging role offers the prospect of significantly raising your professional profile through exposure to key stakeholders.

What you'll do

As an Executive Assistant to Group Chief Audit Executive (CAE), you’ll be providing high quality support to an executive, enabling them to work more productively while spending time out in the business with their direct reports, colleagues and customers.

You’ll be coordinating the delivery of key pieces of work that sit across multiple areas of the team and managing ad-hoc projects on behalf of the leader. And you’ll be building and maintaining strong working relationships with key stakeholders, their reports and teams.

You’ll also be:

• Providing full diary management for the Group CAE.
• Proactively organising engagement activity on behalf of the Group CAE, including all travel and itineraries.
• Collating daily briefing packs for Group CAE.
• Working with the business manager and CAE tracking progress, ensuring all executive actions are completed within timescales.
• Reviewing incoming emails and requests and responding or gathering information to allow the executive to respond.
• Occasional secretariat cover for leadership and governance meetings where the executive is chair, such as weekly and monthly executive committee meetings.
• Managing people processes in Workday.
• Supporting function-wide events, managing Zoom webinars and co-ordination and management of in-person events.
• Managing agendas and actions.
• Providing in office support approximately three days per week, being flexible on office days with occasional travel.

The skills you'll need

We're looking for someone with the ability to multi-task while delivering high quality standards and attention to detail. You'll have a background of working flexibly and in a highly organised way, with the ability to adapt to changing priorities.

You'll also demonstrate:

• Experience of building and maintaining quality relationships with executives and senior management, demonstrating professionalism and confidentiality.
• Experience in a similar role working for senior executives in a large organisation.
• Working as part of the team by actively engaging in function wide activity, being an ambassador for the Group CAE.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and influencing skills.
• The skills to prioritise workloads and that of a wider team, in-line with the priorities of the executive.
• Knowledge of matters affecting the business area you support.