
Executive Assistant
Clarion Events
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • United Kingdom
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About the role
- **Key Responsibilities:**
- - Diary management for four executives, learning their different approaches and preferred scheduling.
- - Travel:
- - Researching, presenting, and booking travel itineraries as per brief.
- - Arranging visas and understanding all requirements for any additional travel documentation.
- - Booking taxis for travel and meetings.
- - Administration of travel expenses, reconciliation of credit cards, raising POs and invoices, setting up new suppliers per Directors’ instructions. Booking couriers and occasionally managing outgoing post.
- - Preparing Directors for meetings, including booking meeting rooms; arranging catering and refreshments; meeting and greeting external clients; preparing and collating copies of meeting materials, etc.
- - General assistance to the wider team and Directors on an ad-hoc basis.
- - Covering work during holiday/sick leave within the team and general assistance with overflow work during busy periods.
- - Assist with ad-hoc projects and tasks.
Requirements
- **Knowledge, Skills & Behaviours:**
- - Previous solid PA experience within a scaled business.
- - Excellent organisational skills, with exceptional attention to detail.
- - Excellent written and spoken communication skills.
- - Experience with Outlook calendar is essential.
- - Proficient user of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- - Professional and enthusiastic attitude; remaining friendly and respectful at all times.
- - Ability to work autonomously; takes the initiative with a proactive approach; and can meet tight deadlines.
- - Confident, punctual, and discrete.
Benefits
- - 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
- - End of year wellbeing shutdown (closed for the last week of the year)
- - Celebration day off (e.g. birthday, Diwali, Eid, etc)
- - Summer Hours in August (3pm finish on Fridays)
- - Helping Our World (HOW) Days – one paid day per quarter to carry out charity work
- - Pension Scheme
- - Private Medical Insurance
- - Health Cash Plan
- - Wellbeing Library (MYNDUP)
- - Mentoring Programme
- - Subsidised Café
- - Season Ticket Loan
- - Cycle to Work Schemes
- - Free on-site gym and shower facilities
- - Free eyesight tests
- - Free flu vaccination – offered on site once a year for all employees
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
diary managementtravel itinerary bookingvisa arrangementstravel expense administrationcredit card reconciliationPO and invoice processingmeeting preparationproject assistance
Soft Skills
organisational skillsattention to detailwritten communicationspoken communicationproactive approachability to work autonomouslypunctualitydiscretion