Personal Assistant - 12 Month Secondment

Lloyds Banking Group; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension up to 15%

Annual bonus

Share schemes

Discounts on shopping

24 days holiday + bank holidays

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group in Edinburgh offers a 12-month fixed term Personal Assistant role within Group Corporate Treasury. The hybrid role requires 35 hours per week, with office presence as part of the flexible hybrid work model.

The PA will maximise senior leaders’ effectiveness by managing diaries, communications and priority workloads. Key responsibilities include event planning, travel arrangements, and preparing executive materials while coordinating with Finance and internal/external

Qualifications

• Strong organisational, planning and time-management skills.
• Experience as a Personal Assistant or in administrative support to senior leaders is preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Proactively manage complex diaries, appointments, meetings and travel arrangements.
• Act as primary contact for internal/external stakeholders with professional communication.
• Support people-related admin including onboarding, holidays, and recruitment activities.
• Prepare high-quality executive materials, reports and briefing papers.
• Maintain records and ensure compliance with internal policies.

Skills

Organisational skills

Diary management

Stakeholder liaison

Microsoft 365

Tools

Microsoft 365

Job description

End Date

Monday 26 October 2026

Salary Range

£42,275 - £44,500

We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working

Job Description Summary

Job Description

Job Title: Personal Assistant

Salary: From £30,201 (London From £42,275)

Location(s): London, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh or Leeds

Hours: Full time – 35 hours per week – 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time in the office. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy.

What you’ll be doing:

This is an exciting opportunity to provide high-level executive support within Group Corporate Treasury (GCT). The role is responsible for maximising the effectiveness of two senior leaders through proactive management of complex diaries, communications, meetings, and key business priorities. It also oversees a range of team administrative activities, ensuring the smooth running of the wider GCT function. Acting as a key liaison across GCT, Finance, and internal and external stakeholders, the role requires strong organisational skills, discretion, professionalism, and the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

In this role you’ll:

• Proactively manage complex diaries, appointments, meetings, and travel arrangements, ensuring all supporting materials are prepared in advance. This includes planning and coordinating team events, offsites, leadership meetings, and external engagements.
• Act as the primary point of contact for internal and external stakeholders, building effective working relationships and managing communications professionally, prioritising emails, messages, and correspondence, whilst exercising sound judgement and discretion.
• Support people-related administration, including Workday delegation, expenses, holiday tracking, recruitment activities, onboarding/offboarding processes, maintaining and administering team collaboration platforms, including Teams, SharePoint, and Viva Engage.
• Prepare and format high-quality correspondence, reports, presentations, briefing papers, and other executive materials.
• Maintain accurate records and filing systems, ensuring compliance with internal policies and supporting the resolution of office and property-related issues.
• Develop a strong understanding of Group Corporate Treasury, its priorities, and stakeholder landscape to provide proactive and informed support.
• Collaborate with the wider PA community, sharing best practice and providing cover during periods of absence.
• Organise and prioritise workload effectively, handling multiple competing demands and coordinating with support teams where required.

Why join us?

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone.

What we’re looking for?

• Exceptional organisational, planning, and time-management skills, with a strong ability to prioritise, multitask, anticipate needs and manage opposing demands while exercising sound judgement.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with high attention to detail, accuracy, and quality.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the confidence to engage senior leaders and build effective relationships and networks across functions and levels.
• Experience handling sensitive and confidential information with discretion and professionalism.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced and evolving environment with a proactive, resourceful, and solutions-focused approach.
• Proficiency in Microsoft 365 applications, including Copilot, Teams, SharePoint, and Outlook.
• Resilient, adaptable, and able to remain calm under pressure.

And any experience of these would be great:

• Experience working as a Personal Assistant or in an administrative/support role to Senior Leaders.

This is a place for you:

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 24 days holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

At Lloyds Banking Group, we’re driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we’ll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.