Dynamic Business Assistant/Chief of Staff required to support the CEO of a global finance house. This is truly a unique opportunity for a degree educated Business assistant who can demonstrate that they have worked within a similar position and understands the demands of supporting a CEO within a FTSE 250 structure ideally.

To be successful in this Executive Assistant role, you will have:

* Degree level education - 2:1 from a top tier university (a must)
* Evidence of supporting at CEO Level for a medium sized company ideally a finance house
* Extensive board exposure
* Understanding of the importance of total discretion and confidentiality
* Exemplary co-ordinating and project skills
* High attention to detail, the ability to take on extra operational duties
* Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with excellent proofreading and
grammatical skills.
* Competencies include: planning and organising, problem solving and analytically thinking,
technology and process, verbal communication, written communication


Key responsibilities within this position include:

*Manage the day-to-day schedule of CEO, organising and scheduling
meetings, proactively identifying priorities and commitments and coordinating
appropriately.
*Coordinate and manage all Board meetings, collating all the papers and minutes.
*Manage incoming correspondence, answering and screening calls, taking messages as
appropriate, sorting mail for priority and responding appropriately.
*Prepare correspondence, meeting minutes, documents and reports which are typically
confidential in nature, drafting required documents in standard company format as
directed.
*Liaise effectively with a range of internal and external staff, acting as a first
point of contact for all internal and external inquiries and functioning as a
liaison between the CEO and other internal staff.
*Arrange national and international travel, including itineraries, visas, transfers
and accommodation.
*Acting as a gatekeeper, sorting e-mail for priority and responding appropriately,
managing incoming correspondence, answering and screening calls.
*Stakeholder engagement ability to build working relationships across a wide range of
internal departments.



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