Executive Assistant - Investment Banking

6286 BBIe - Germany (Euro); Frankfurt; Vor Ort; EUR 65.000 - 90.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Barclays is seeking an Executive Assistant based in Frankfurt to support two senior investment bankers. The role involves extensive diary management, travel coordination, and budget oversight for the Front Office team.

You will also provide high-level administrative support and partner with a range of stakeholders across the bank. The successful candidate will have proven Executive Assistant experience at senior management level, strong international travel coordination skills, and excellent

Qualifikationen

• Proven Executive Assistant experience at Senior Management level / working within a revenue generating Investment Banking environment.
• Credible institutional client facing experience is essential.
• Extensive experience co-ordinating complex international travel.

Aufgaben

• Manage executive calendars and respond to meeting invitations and requests.
• Plan and arrange travel itineraries including flights, accommodation, and ground transport.
• Provide administrative support, including expenses, filing, and organizing events.
• Facilitate meetings and manage budgets for the Front Office team.

Kenntnisse

Executive Assistant

Calendar management

Travel coordination

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Jobbeschreibung

Job Description Purpose of the role

To manage the executive's schedule, handling correspondence, preparing presentations and reports, and providing other administrative support as needed.

Accountabilities

Management of senior executive members calendars and overseeing their timely responses to meeting invitations and requests. Planning and arranging travel itineraries, including flights, accommodation, and ground transportation, ensuring timely and efficient travel for the executive. Proactively anticipating the needs of the senior executive, prioritising tasks, and ensuring timely completion. Management of day-to-day administrative tasks, such as expenses, maintaining filing systems, and ordering office supplies, annual leave records management, distribution list management and organisation management tasks. Management and facilitation of senior executive members meetings.

Analyst Expectations

To perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard consistently driving continuous improvement. Requires in-depth technical knowledge and experience in their assigned area of expertise Thorough understanding of the underlying principles and concepts within the area of expertise They lead and supervise a team, guiding and supporting professional development, allocating work requirements and coordinating team resources. If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others. OR for an individual contributor, they develop technical expertise in work area, acting as an advisor where appropriate. Will have an impact on the work of related teams within the area. Partner with other functions and business areas. Takes responsibility for end results of a team’s operational processing and activities. Escalate breaches of policies / procedure appropriately. Take responsibility for embedding new policies/ procedures adopted due to risk mitigation. Advise and influence decision making within own area of expertise. Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you own or contribute to. Deliver your work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulation and codes of conduct. Maintain and continually build an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with function, alongside knowledge of the organisations products, services and processes within the function. Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function. Make evaluative judgements based on the analysis of factual information, paying attention to detail. Resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience and will be guided by precedents. Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex / sensitive information. Act as contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function, while building a network of contacts outside team and external to the organisation. All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

To be successful as an Executive Assistant you should have:

• Proven Executive Assistant experience at Senior Management level / working within a revenue generating Investment Banking environment.
• Credible institutional client facing experience is essential.
• Extensive experience co-ordinating complex international travel.
• Able to work at speed and with absolute accuracy.
• Strong communication skills, and attention to detail.

Additional skills of value include:

• English language skills are essential, other language skills are useful.
• A pro-active and dynamic personality;
• An ability to work collaboratively with a diverse range of people is essential.
• Able to work both autonomously and collaboratively.

Join us as an Executive Assistant to 2 Senior Investment Bankers, as well as providing some administrative support to the wider team. This is an exciting opportunity within Barclays Investment Banking Division. You will be working within a team of Executive Assistants to provide aid to Front Office personnel, which will include extensive diary management, submitting expenses, extensive travel arrangements, organising internal and external events and managing budgets accordingly. A high degree of pro-activity and forward planning capability is required. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience co-ordinating complex international travel as well as maintaining extremely busy calendars. Meticulous attention to detail is key as well as having previously worked in a client facing role. You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job‑specific technical skills.

This role is based in Frankfurt.

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