Executive Assistant - London, United Kingdom - Mastercard

Mastercard

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Our Purpose

We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible.

Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential.

Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a

culture of inclusion

for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences.

We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team - one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Title and Summary

Executive Assistant

Job Title:
Executive Assistant, Mastercard Risk

Overview:

This position reports into the Head of Risk Transformation (EVP), Mastercard Risk
This can be defined depending on the location of the person?
The Executive Assistant is responsible for providing support to:1) the EVP, Head of Risk Transformation

2) the EVP, Europe and Regulated Entities Chief Risk Officer

The role includes performing general assistance across departmental/office activities
Seeking a highly organized, detailoriented, energetic, calm under pressure, and experienced Executive Assistant to create a positive and collaborative team culture.

Role:

The Executive Assistant will assist on a daily basis with time sensitive and highly confidential matters, including but not limited to regulatory, Risk Committee and entity Board materials and other items such as those relating to Group and Regulated Entity Risk Management, Risk and Control incidents/improvements, and Risk organization personnel.

As such, the ability to handle with insight such matters is critical.

As the administrative liaison, and a member of Mastercard Risk, we are looking for someone that embodies the Mastercard Way with doing the right thing by demonstrating decency, inclusion, and being a force for good.

Responsibilities include:

Perform general administrative duties to support daytoday department operations in such areas as calendar management, scheduling meetings; managing travel arrangements (including passports and visas as needed), expense reporting; and prioritizing the most sensitive matters.
Partner with senior executive assistant of Mastercard Chief Risk Officer as backup admin.
Assist EVP's chief of staff with planning leadership meetings, offsite broader team meetings and client engagements.
Organize and coordinate team meetings and communication flow withing the team
Develop and produce team reports, as assigned.
Administer programs; projects or processes specific to the operating unit served; and maintains spreadsheets or databases to monitor departmental information.
May research special topics, as assigned.
May assist in preparing and maintaining departmental budget.
May monitor and coordinate work of other employees or temporary/contract resources.

All about you:

Demonstrated professionalism and discretion, and experience in working with highly confidential information.
Extremely collaborative and fostering a positive spirit and cando attitude and is also extremely open in accepting feedback and suggestions.
Adherence to the Mastercard Risk Team Agreement for Return to Office Company Strategy.
Extensive administrative experience in a corporate environment interfacing with csuite executive level management, senior customers, and board members.
Proficiency in Outlook and competency across the Microsoft Office suite including Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
Experience with expense management platforms (such as Oracle).
Experience in harmonizing across matrixed, cross functional and global organization structure.
Experience in supporting senior level executives in a fastpaced corporate work environment.
Must be proactive and solution oriented, looking for ways to add value and assist the team.
Strong communication skills (written and verbal).
Intrinsicallymotivated, highly organized, detailoriented and resultsoriented.
Able to work well under deadlines, anticipate needs and prioritize work accordingly.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;
Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.