Team PA / Assistant | S1 | SCIB

Santander USA; London; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a leading company as a Personal Assistant in London, providing essential support to senior executives in Corporate & Investment Banking. You'll manage schedules, coordinate meetings, and ensure smooth operations, all while enjoying a hybrid work environment and a range of benefits tailored to your needs.

Benefits

Annual cash allowance

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Discretionary performance-related bonus

Voluntary healthcare benefits

Digital health services access

Wellbeing apps and online classes

Pension contributions

Death-in-service benefit

Employee discount platform access

Staff versions of products with no fees

Qualifications

• Extensive experience supporting senior executives in a corporate environment.
• Excellent time management and proactive in a fast-paced setting.

Responsibilities

• Manage diaries and coordinate meetings for senior executives.
• Organize global travel arrangements and manage expenses.
• Provide administrative support and assist with projects.

Skills

Time Management

Interpersonal Skills

Communication

Adaptability

Education

Experience as Personal or Executive Assistant

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Team PA / Assistant | S1 | SCIB

Country: United Kingdom

Interested in part-time, job-share or flexible working? We want to talk to you!

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Santander Corporate & Investment Banking (SCIB) is Santander's global division that supports some of the world's most complex and sophisticated corporate and institutional clients, offering customized services and value-added wholesale products to best meet their needs.

We are looking for a Personal Assistant to provide general office administrative and PA support to our senior executives within Santander Corporate and Investment Banking (SCIB) to ensure the smooth running of their division.

You’ll provide professional, well organised administrative support, and will act as the first point of contact for our senior leaders, creating a positive impression for both internal and external contacts. You will be highly organised with the ability to multitask and prioritise workloads and be confident liaising with colleagues at all levels.

The difference you’ll make:

• Managing diaries; prioritising appointments, arranging and coordinating meetings, as well as supporting with event planning.
• Ensuring papers, documents and information are gathered and produced in advance of meetings, liaising with other teams/ offices where needed.
• Managing new employees and leavers within the department, correspondence, enquiries and requests for information, prioritising, and actioning as appropriate
• Administrative tasks: organising global travel arrangements, expense management (Concur), updating HR systems (Workday), assisting with ad hoc requests
• Collaborating effectively with colleagues and team members, assisting with projects and tasks, and providing PA cover when required whilst building your PA network across the wider business

What you’ll bring:

• Extensive experience working as personal or executive assistant in a corporate organisation, supporting senior executives / directors
• Excellent time management, proactive, adaptable and able to work in a fast-paced environment
• Effective interpersonal skills and excellent communication - confident, organised, and clear

It would also be nice for you to have:

• Relevant previous experience within administrative role supporting senior management or in financial services
• Extensive Microsoft Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Outlook)
• Bilingual skills e.g. Spanish would be advantageous

What else you need to know:

This role is based at our offices in Triton Square, London located within easy walking distance from Warren Street and Euston.

We want our people to thrive at work and home and also be able to deliver the best outcomes for our customers and to help each other develop. To support this, we offer site-based contracts with a hybrid working pattern and our expected level of attendance in an office is at least 3 days a week (pro-rata for part-time roles).

If you apply for this role in this location, it’s important you consider your travelling distance, time and cost from your home to the office location.

We’re happy to discuss specific working patterns and arrangement within this hybrid approach during the recruitment process.

If you’re interested in this role but with part time hours or a job-share we would still love to hear from you and discuss these.

Inclusion:

At Santander we’re creating a thriving workplace where all colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. We all help to make Santander a workplace that celebrates diversity and attracts, retains and develops the most talented and committed people through living our values of Simple, Personal, and Fair.

How we’ll reward you:

As well asasalary, we offer a wide range of benefits that you can choose from and tailor to your needs.

• £500annual cash allowance to spend on our great range of benefits
• 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to 26 days after 5yrs service, with the option to purchase up to 5 contractual days per year
• Eligible for a discretionary performance-related annual bonus
• Voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates. Including: medical insurance, dental insurance, and health assessments
• Free access to a range of digital health services, including GP
• Free access to wellbeing apps and up to three weekly online classes
• We put 8% of salary into your pension, even if you don’t contribute yourself. We’ll pay in up to 12.5% of salary, if you contribute as well, and you can take some of our contribution in cash if you prefer
• Protection for you and your family, with company-funded death-in-service benefit and income protection insurance, and the option to take advantage of discounted rates for additional life assurance and critical illness cover
• Support your favourite causes through charitable giving and our community partnerships.
• Share in Santander’s success by saving or investing inour shareplans
• 24/7 access to an online employee discount platformincluding retailers, entertainment, eating out, travel and more
• As a Santander UK employee, you are able to request staff versions of our products like our Edge Current Accounts and Credit Cards with no fees, as well as apply to many other deals and discounts in Santander products and services

Learn more about our benefits and family friendly policies

What to do next: -

If this sounds like a role you’re interested in, then please apply.

If there’s anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, get in touch. Whether it’s a copy of our application form in another format or additional assistance, we’re available through telephone, email, or face to face. You can contact us at [e-mail] or call 0870 414 9080.