Lead Administrative Assistant

MFS International Australia Pty Ltd; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement contribution 15%

Education assistance

Generous time off and leaves

Job summary

MFS is seeking a skilled Administrative Assistant to support the Global Information Technology (GIT) group. The role emphasizes proactive partnership, calendar management, and efficient operations in a hybrid environment.

Candidates should have a bachelor’s degree, 3+ years of admin experience supporting senior leaders in complex corporate settings, and strong MS Office and collaboration tools proficiency. This position offers a competitive salary and extensive benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required or equivalent work experience.
• Excellent interpersonal and analytical skills.
• Advanced computer skills with Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and video conferencing.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-level administrative support to assigned GIT leaders and teams.
• Manage complex calendars, meetings, travel, and expense processes.
• Anticipate needs, coordinate logistics, and track deadlines and action items.
• Prepare materials for reports, presentations, and meetings.
• Maintain confidentiality and handling sensitive information with discretion.
• Collaborate with administrative colleagues to improve processes.

Job description

At MFS, you will find a culture that supports you in doing what you do best. Our employees work together to reach better outcomes, favoring the strongest idea over the strongest individual. We put people first and demonstrate care and compassion for our community and each other. Because what we do matters - to us as valued professionals and to the millions of people and institutions who rely on us to help them build more secure and prosperous futures.

THE ROLE

Using discretion and judgment, provides consistent, high-level administrative support to assigned members of the GIT (Global Information Technology) group in a value-added manner. Serves as a proactive administrative partner who understands leadership priorities, anticipates needs, and helps ensure smooth, efficient team operations with minimal supervision.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Partners with assigned GIT leaders and team members to perform a variety of specialized administrative duties, which may be complex in nature.
• Provides extensive calendar support and meeting coordination, including managing complex and dynamic schedules, resolving conflicts, prioritizing competing demands, coordinating logistics, preparing materials, and tracking follow-up items.
• Develops a strong understanding of department needs, priorities, and team processes; proactively anticipates needs and uses sound judgment to help keep priorities and commitments moving forward.
• Builds strong working relationships with the GIT team, administrative colleagues, and other stakeholders across the firm to facilitate coordination and effective execution.
• Understands and masters relevant department systems, tools, and processes to support smooth and efficient operations.
• Gathers and organizes information for reports, presentations, meetings, and project-related materials; helps track key deadlines, commitments, and action items.
• Coordinates travel, conferences, meetings, team events, and related logistics; processes expense requests in a timely and accurate manner.
• Collaborates with administrative colleagues and GIT team members to support administrative procedures and specialized duties.
• Handles sensitive and confidential information with a high degree of discretion, professionalism, and judgment.
• Ensures internal and external communications, documents, and materials are accurate, organized, and error free.
• Adapts effectively to changing priorities and consistently looks for ways to improve processes and procedures to support efficiency across the GIT group.
• Performs additional responsibilities as requested.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Minimum three years of progressively responsible administrative assistant experience; experience supporting senior leaders in a complex corporate technology, operations, or project teams preferred.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, organizational, and analytical skills.
• Advanced computer skills including Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and video conferencing technology, and department-specific systems; strong aptitude for learning new productivity and AI-enabled tools.
• Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and use discretion and sound judgment.
• Flexible, proactive, detail-oriented, and team focused.
• Experience with complex calendar management, meeting coordination, travel and expense management, and video conferencing technology.

Base Salary Range: $80,000 - $95,000

At MFS, we believe in fair and transparent compensation. For that reason, we’re including the salary range for this position. This range reflects our good-faith expectation for what we’ll pay depending on the candidate’s experience, training and education. In addition to the salary, we also offer significant and competitive incentive compensation based on both individual and company performance. Other components of our Total Rewards Package include: MFS contributes an amount equal to 15% of your base salary to your retirement account that is separate from the company -sponsored 401(k). Education Assistance: MFS contributes $100 monthly up to $10,000 lifetime maximum directly to loan provider. Education Assistance: Tuition reimbursement up to $8,000 annually. Education Assistance: Access to discounted tutors and college coaches. Generous time off and fully paid leaves including 20-weeks for maternity, 12-weeks for parental and caregiver leaves. Choice of medical and dental plans and an and an employer contribution into the Health Savings Account. Tax deferred commuter benefits & flexible spending accounts (medical & dependent care). Wellness Programs: Robust wellness webinars, employee assistance program with a focus on mental health, subsidized fitness benefit via Wellhub (formerly Gympass), where you can workout at gyms, studios and boutique fitness locations near you, join virtual personal training sessions and access a wide variety of well‑being apps.

Our compensation philosophy is to pay competitively for talent while ensuring equity across employees performing comparable work. We are committed to transparency – if you have questions about how we arrived at this range or what additional benefits and bonus opportunities come with the role, we’ll be happy to discuss them.

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At MFS, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If you are excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply - you might be just the right candidate for this role or others.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full‑time basis. This position is not eligible for sponsorship. MFS is a hybrid work environment (remote/onsite) unless otherwise stated in the job posting. If any applicant is unable to complete an application or respond to a job opening because of a disability, please contact MFS at 617-954-5000 or email [e-mail] for assistance.

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