Executive Assistant - Coventry, United Kingdom - Coventry Building Society

Coventry Building Society
Coventry Building Society
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Coventry, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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About The Role:

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We offer flexibility that counts:
Role:


Opportunity to work part-time in a job share to support our General Counsel, Corporate Governance and Non-Executive Directors as an Executive Assistant.


Purpose:

To provide first class assistance and governance 9support to and on behalf of the General Counsel.


Maintain an executive's entire schedule, act as the final point of contact before executive meetings, monitor company budgets and perform upper-level business diplomacy tasks.


Day to Day responsibilities:


  • Provide effective proactive support to General Counsel
  • Corporate Governance Support
  • Proactive meeting bookings/prioritisation.
  • Chase direct reports for information the Exec requires
  • Decisions making within remit of the role
  • Communicate as a job share and working with another Executive Assistant
  • Prioritise and meet deadlines consistently, whilst dealing with sensitive and confidential information with total discretion
  • Maintain General Counsel budgets
  • Expenses and travel bookings

About You:

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About you:
  • Discrete, trustworthy, and reliable
  • Ability to work under pressure and to deadlines
  • Good attention to detail and diligent approach
  • Experience in Corporate Governance
  • Ability to work well with others
  • Have patience and the ability to remain calm in stressful situations
  • Concentration skills
  • Ability to use your initiative
  • Customer service skills
  • Computer literate

Essential Requirements:


  • Previous experience working in an EA role or equivalent supporting at Csuite level
  • Previous experience and knowledge of Corporate Governance agenda / meetings / minutes
  • Excellent organisational and communication skills, both written and verbal
  • Proficient in Outlook and a solid understanding and experience using Microsoft Office Suite
  • Able to multitask and adapt quickly in a challenging and pressured environment
  • Excellent planning and organising skills, with an emphasis on priority management
  • Operated at a Senior /Executive level with the ability to keep Society and Operations confidences
  • Budget management and control experience
  • Ability to make decisions within remit of the role, without needing basic decisions made by Exec
  • Understand the difference between Exec & NED
  • Excellent communication to be able to job share effectively and ability to work with others
    Desirable Requirements:
  • EA experience in the Legal/Finance sector

Hours:
Job share - Wednesday (PM) and Thursday/Friday (All day)
About The Company:
***We're proud to be a building society and we're focused on our purpose of giving people the power to be better off through life. We're the 2nd largest building society in the UK, the 8th largest lender, we have more than 2,600 employees and we're still growing and protecting the interests of our members.

We've got a simple business model, where savers and borrowers join to get what they need.

That's the mutual benefit - it's the way we've done things since 1884 and the way we plan to keep doing things.

We're building and nurturing teams where difference is valued, creating an inclusive and inspiring workplace. We think discrimination of any sort has no place in a modern society, including ours. We've been really pleased to see the growth of several networks across the Society to support our goal of being an inclusive and inspiring workplace

Diversity brings unique ideas and perspectives, helping us to deliver better performance.

We've made clear commitments to increase gender and race diversity in our senior teams over time, and an overall ambition to improve the representation of different sexual orientations, gender identities, disability, backgrounds and thinking styles in our workforce.

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