As an Executive Assistant in our Canada Asset Management business, you will need to work well in a team environment, be able to represent the manager/group with professional courtesy and acumen, and deliver flawless work output. Your daily routine also includes interaction with various executive level internal clients across the lines of businesses. You will need to adapt procedures, processes and techniques to complete assignments in line with the department's activities and goals.
Job responsibilities
- Maintain complex and detailed calendars
- Manage the coordination and logistics of both internal and external meetings
- Arrange and coordinate complicated domestic and international travel
- Organize all aspects of internal and external events, including catering and transportation
- Process invoices and T&E expense claims for team members, ensuring all policies are followed and items are processed within provided guidelines
- Assist with staff on-boarding and off-boarding, which includes requesting equipment setup and system access
- Handle regular activities without prompting, and advise in advance with issues or delays
- Assist in printing and binding materials for client meetings
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- At least five years of administrative experience
- Advanced organizational skills, ability and instinct to connect dots and escalate issues as required
- Discretion and good judgment in confidential situations, and proven experience interacting with senior management
- Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office
- Excellent communication and ability to manage competing priorities i.e. calendar management
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience supporting at the Managing Director level (or equivalent) or above
- College degree is a plus