Personal Assistant to GFS Divisional Finance Director

What you'll be doing:

• Sophisticated diary management of a demanding and fast-paced calendar. Coordinate meetings and events to achieve optimum time efficiency, as well as producing comprehensive information including agendas and briefing notes.
• Effective and proactive management of the Executive’s inbox, reviewing incoming emails and flagging urgent items as appropriate.
• Work closely with the team, always aligning to the priorities of the Executive.
• Arrange travel requirements, adhering to the travel policy and budget.
• Carry out a wide range of activities including team changes on Workday, expenses, invoices, electronic filing, resolving IT issues.
• Ensure day to day management, including record keeping, is kept to a high standard and is in line with the Executive Handbook, Group Policies, and standards.
• Accomplish work objectives by determining own work schedule and assigning short term tasks to others if necessary.
• Identify, monitor, and mitigate risks, calling out where appropriate.
• Use own initiative and judgement from knowledge of key issues as to what action needs to be taken and when more complex issues require escalation.

About 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. Including you.

What you’ll need:

• A highly qualified PA who is passionate about what they do.
• You’ll have strong written and oral communication skills and are a confident user of the Microsoft Office suite, particularly Outlook.
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to plan in advance and be proactive.
• A keen eye for detail and be capable of reacting quickly to both internal and external business needs.
• You are flexible, collaborative, resilient and have a can-do demeanour.

About working for us:

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.
 

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.
 

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.
 

And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.
 

We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

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

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

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.

Our continued commitment to helping Britain prosper means that as a colleague you can make a difference to customers, businesses and communities.

Together we have a key role to play in shaping the bank of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll continue to have opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We're focused on creating a values-led culture, and our approach to inclusion and diversity means that we all have the opportunity to make a real difference, together.

As part of the Group's commitments as a result of ring-fencing legislation, colleagues based in the Islands are required to be exclusively dedicated to the non-ring-fenced bank and its subsidiaries. This means that colleagues who are based in the Islands would not be able to undertake roles for the Ring Fenced Bank from their existing location and would need to consider relocation when applying for roles.