EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

Whitaker Bank Corp Of Kentucky; Lexington (KY); On-site; USD 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Whitaker Bank Corp Of Kentucky in Lexington, KY seeks an Executive Administrative Assistant to support Senior Management. You will greet visitors, answer calls, manage mail, compile reports, and handle travel arrangements with discretion and professionalism.

The role requires coordinating meetings, preparing agendas and minutes, maintaining files, and ensuring confidentiality. This full-time clerical position supports the President and aligns with bank policies and procedures.

Qualifications

• Associate's degree or equivalent required.
• Experience in senior secretarial duties preferred.
• Ability to prepare reports and maintain files.
• Strong typing and word processing skills.
• Proficiency with MS Office and office equipment.

Responsibilities

• Provide administrative and secretarial support to Senior Management executives.
• Greet visitors, answer calls, route inquiries and manage correspondence.
• Gathers data, compiles reports for management and prepares meeting materials.
• Schedule appointments, maintain calendars and coordinate travel arrangements.
• Prepare meeting agendas and distribute minutes; maintain filing systems.
• Maintain confidentiality and adhere to bank policies and procedures.

Skills

Advanced secretarial skills

Calendar management

Meeting coordination

Discretion and confidentiality

Phone etiquette

Interpersonal skills

Education

Associate's degree (AA) or equivalent

Tools

Word processing software

Spreadsheet software

Telephone switchboard

Job description

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EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

Lexington Main EE Full Time Clerical Lexington, KY, US

EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT POSITION DESCRIPTION

Reports To: President

FLSA: Non-Exempt

Category: Full-time

Shift: Monday-Friday, 8am-5pm

SUMMARY

The position of Executive Administrative Assistant is responsible for providing administrative and secretarial support to Senior Management executives including, but not limited to greeting visitors and answering the telephone, receiving and distributing mail and correspondence, gathering data and compiling various reports for management, conducting projects and assignments, photocopying materials, maintaining files, ordering supplies, and issuing correspondence.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

• Performs a wide range of administrative and secretarial duties; composes, edits and proofreads correspondence to ensure typographical accuracy for supervisor's signature; sets up and maintains files; makes travel arrangements and reservations; attends meetings and prepares and distributes meeting minutes; and sorts, screens and distributes mail.
• Answers telephones and related duties; determines priorities of inquiries and problems received from both internal and external sources; takes messages or provides answers and information; refers problems to appropriate individuals; and ensures answers or information is received by inquiring party.
• Gathers and coordinates data for Executive Committee and other meetings; prepares agendas; organizes special meetings and events; maintains attendance records; and prepares and distributes meeting minutes.
• Gathers and calculates data from a variety of sources to produce administrative reports for management; ensures reports are accurate, relevant, complete, and prepared on schedule.
• Establishes, maintains and revises filing and record keeping systems; classifies, sorts and files correspondence, articles, records and other documentation.
• Schedules appointments and/or tasks as necessary; maintains supervisor's calendar; reminds supervisor of scheduled appointments and meetings; assembles documents, reports or other information as required for meeting preparation; ensures appointment or meeting participants are informed of date and time; and explains supervisor's requirements and instructions to others as directed for meeting preparation.
• Greets and screens in-person customers and visitors, and exercises tact, judgment, initiative and knowledge of supervisor's functional area to determine which individual(s) may be handled by subordinate officers and staff.
• Participates in special projects and tasks of a diverse nature as directed.
• Maintains orders and distributes supplies or merchandise for the department.
• Performs routine clerical duties including, but not limited to, word processing, filing, faxing, and copying.
• Treats people with respect; keeps commitments; Inspires the trust of others; works ethically and with integrity; upholds organizational values; and accepts responsibility for own actions. Works collaboratively with other team members and demonstrates a positive attitude.
• Demonstrates knowledge of and adherence to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) policy; shows respect and sensitivity for cultural differences; educates others on the value of diversity; promotes working environment free of harassment of any type; and builds a diverse workforce and supports affirmative action.
• Assures compliance with all Bank policies, procedures and processes, and all applicable state and federal banking laws, rules and regulations, and adheres to Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) responsibilities that are specific to the position.
• Completes administrative tasks correctly and on time; supports the Bank’s goals and values; and benefits the Bank through outside activities.
• Performs the position safely, without endangering the health of safety to themselves or others and will be expected to report potentially unsafe conditions. The employee shall comply with occupational safety and health standards and all rules. Regulations and orders issued pursuant to the OSHA Act of 1970, which are applicable to one’s own actions and conduct.
• Treats all information received in strict confidence until instructed to distribute.

SECONDARY DUTIES

The position of Executive Administrative Assistant performs duties specific to the position and other functions as assigned.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY

The position of Executive Administrative Assistant is not responsible for the supervision of any employee(s).

ENVIRONMENT AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

The incumbent is in a non-confined office-type setting in which he or she is free to move about at will. The position includes driving a Bank or personal owned vehicle approximately 5 PERCENTof the time which includes exposure to the outside weather elements and moving mechanical parts. It may include some minor annoyances such as noise, odors, drafts, etc.

The incumbent in the course of performing this position spends time writing, typing, speaking, listening, lifting (up to 25pounds), driving, carrying, seeing (such as close, color and peripheral vision, depth perception and adjusted focus), sitting, pulling, walking, standing, squatting, kneeling and reaching.

The incumbent for this position may operate any or all of the following: telephone, smart phone, copy and fax machines, adding machine (calculator), check protector, scanner and image systems, scanning equipment, encoder, money counter, credit card terminal, typewriter, computer terminal, laptop computer, personal computer, tablet, printers, or other equipment as directed.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

MENTAL DEMANDS

The incumbent in this position must be able to accommodate to reading documents or instruments, detailed work, problem solving, customer contact, reasoning, math, language, presentations, verbal communication, written communication, stress, training others, multiple concurrent tasks and constant interruptions.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

These specifications are general guidelines based on the minimum experience normally considered essential to the satisfactory performance of this position. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required to perform the position in a satisfactory manner. Individual abilities may result in some deviation from these guidelines.

To perform effectively in this position, the incumbent must have a working knowledge of:

• Associate's degree (AA) or equivalent from a 2-year college or technical school; or 2 years of related experience and/or training; or the equivalent combination of education and experience. Work related experience should consist of senior secretarial or administrative duties with a financial institution background. Educational experience, through in-house training sessions, formal school or financial industry related curriculum, should be business or financial industry related.
• Advanced secretarial skills to operate automated and standard office equipment.
• Prior work experience demonstrating application of discretionary judgment, poise and tact to represent the Bank in contacts of importance.
• Skills in operating telephone switchboard equipment and a pleasant speaking voice.
• Courteous social skills to welcome visitors in a business environment.
• Intermediate skills in computer terminal and personal computer operation; host computer system; and word processing and spreadsheet software programs.
• Advanced planning, organizing, coordinating and implementation skills with little or no supervision in situations where dramatic changes frequently occur.
• Advanced typing skills to meet production needs of the position.
• Basic math skills to calculate interest and balance accounts, including, but not limited to, the ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals. The incumbent must also possess the ability to compute rate, ratio and percent, including the drafting and interpretation of bar graphs.
• Effective verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to apply common sense to carry out instructions, interpret documents, understand procedures, write reports and correspondence, and speak clearly to customers and employees.
• Ability to deal with complex problems involving multiple facets and variables in non-standardized situations.
• Current driver's license and a vehicle with appropriate insurance coverage if required to drive in the course of performing assigned duties and responsibilities.

Management reserves the right to change this position description at any time according to business needs.