. Morgan is seeking a Business Assistant to support Leadership team in Edinburgh. It is a great opportunity for candidates with solid Executive Assistant experience.
As a Business Assistant in International Consumer Bank (ICB), you will be required to support at a senior level within this fast-paced environment. You should have a solid Executive Assistant background working with senior stakeholders gained in an office environment and possess a strong degree of flexibility given the demanding nature of this role, able to demonstrate an advanced Assistant skillset. Additionally, you should have a high degree of confidentiality, strong work ethic, good time management, resourcefulness, diligence, and a strong business and client deliverable focus.
This Business Assistant role will focus on supporting the Edinburgh based ICB Leadership team.
Note: this role requires 5 days in the office.
Job responsibilities
1. Manage diaries including internal/external meetings, conference calls, and ability to support orchestration of Off-Sites/Town Halls/Skip-Levels
2. Partner with relevant groups to execute travel and entertainment booking and enable expense processing within policy - escalate and enforces all firmwide T&E (Travel & Expense) policies with their team including receipt requirements and timely handover of required information
3. Handle internal and external clients, including client-facing interactions and co-ordination of department scheduling & transactional activity
4. Partner with relevant groups to enable expense processing - Escalates and enforces all CIB/Firmwide T&E policies with their team including receipt requirements and timely handover of required information
5. Interface with wider support groups and partner with Business Management and other key business stakeholders across Lines of Business (LoB)
6. Utilize internal systems, complete accurate data entry, produce reporting and collate information as required
7. Integrate into the business, understand changeable group priorities and business expectation
8. Collaborate with assistants cross LoB to provide coverage as required
9. Participate in additional projects and training for the right candidate subject to performance
10. Produce Contact Centre working pattern rota’s
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
11. Professional client handling, ability to build and maintain business relationships
12. Full competency in diary management, can apply good judgment and understand competing priorities
13. Strong, executive communication style both written and verbal
14. Experience of effectively arranging travel, production of accurate itineraries, plan B & C, able to navigate systems well and apply good judgment on how to optimise travellers time and business costs
15. Can demonstrate pro-activity and ownership within the role
16. High level technical capabilities
17. Strong awareness of expense systems and cost control initiatives ., can champion expense policy
18. Exhibits a positive, common sense approach and can drive forward seniors schedule for efficient time management
19. Has a high level of attention to detail and delivers high quality results
20. Understands the culture of an Investment Bank and can quickly grasp the political landscape and key people within the organisation
21. Stays current with all CIB/Firmwide Policies and can comfortably ensure those they support understand how to adhere to same. Will escalate concerns or issues