Executive Assistant
14 hours ago
New York
Job Description At-a-Glance: Are you ready to build your career by joining a global financial institution. If so, our client is hiring an Executive Assistant. Position Type: • Contract, • Prior administrative or related experience at the executive level is essential, • Flexible and proactive attitude with the willingness to take on new and ad hoc projects, • Highly service-oriented and detailed-oriented individual with the ability to work well both independently and collaboratively, • Highly trainable with ability to learn new, proprietary systems pretty quickly, • Strong ability to manage multiple priorities and take independent initiative for action within areas of responsibility including escalating matters where necessary, • Experience within a Financial Services environment preferred, • Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, • College degree mandatory, • Proficiency with all Microsoft Office software, • Becoming familiar with all firm policies and procedures related to expenses and travel including monetary thresholds and required approvals, • Coordinating travel schedules, arrangements and agendas in preparation for on-site and off-site meetings, conferences and events, • Coordinating on-site client meetings, including room reservations, catering, day of logistics, etc., • Submitting, maintaining and monitoring expense reports through Concur system to ensure timely settlement of expenses, • Processing external vendor payments through Smaart system, • Obtaining approvals for firm absorbed costs through internal system, • Providing telephone coverage, including responding to inquiries, properly routing calls and taking detailed messages., • Use of excellent judgment with both internal and external clients, • Managing and maintaining the confidentiality of highly sensitive information as it relates to firm, staff, and clients, • Heavy calendar monitoring, management and scheduling, • Back-up coverage for administrative team colleague(s) during planned or unplanned absences from the office or as necessary, • Reviewing and prioritizing incoming emails and taking appropriate action. Performing related duties as assigned, • Ability to coordinate, and manage to completion, special projects as assigned, • Advanced experience in making domestic and international travel arrangements including procuring visas (with assistance from travel desk), currency exchanges, arranging ground transportation, etc., • Coordinating complex and extensive meeting schedules by previewing participant availability and proposing and adjusting days/times as needed, • Adept with working out travel logistics (e.g. planning real travel time between meetings, hotels and airports), • Documentation Management including coordinating, streamlining and properly recording important documents and files, • Assist with onboarding and off boarding all employees (e.g. new hires including permanent, temporary employees and interns as well as those departing the Firm), • Facilitating execution of legal documents to be signed by various officers, • Ad hoc project work