Executive Assistant to the CEO
Full Focus
Director, Planning, Analysis and Operations
S&P Global
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • New York
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💰 $146,109 - $252,227 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Work closely with the Chief of Staff to the CEO and other senior leaders, supporting the overall effectiveness and organization of the Office of the CEO both internally and externally
- Own key deliverables to the CEO and Chief of Staff and deliver excellence in a fast-paced, high-performance environment
- Combine strategy, analysis and project management skills and play an active role focused on strategic execution at the highest levels
- Handle complex situations and multiple responsibilities, balancing longer term projects with urgent immediate demands
- Operate under the highest levels of confidentiality and quickly assimilate information, condensing key themes and constructing action plans
- Enhance the CEO’s ability to provide direction-setting, problem identification and solving, decision alignment, speed and transparent communication
- Develop strong working relationships with OCEO team and other key internal stakeholders; take ownership of various OCEO activities and produce high quality deliverables
- Gather information and synthesize views; surface, connect and translate "the dots"; develop CEO board reports and updates
- Support effective flow of information and decisions for the Chief of Staff and CEO; lead cross-functional strategic travel and stakeholder/outreach planning
- Manage and track CEO stakeholder engagement and follow-up; partner with executive assistants on calendar optimization
- Support executive events (such as Board meetings) & strategic offsites; contribute to creating new OCEO efficiencies and capabilities
- Lead & execute select key initiatives or projects; monitor and maintain an inventory of critical path projects relevant to the OCEO
- Determine proper course of action, ensure issues are addressed efficiently and keep track of progress until complete
- Collaborate on CEO communications, own CEO weekly briefings and weekend packs, and prepare high quality briefing packets for meetings and events
- Partner with communications, strategy, legal, IR, people, finance, and division teams; support monitoring internal data related to organizational performance (P&L, KPI reporting etc.) and external market insights
- Analyze statistics, research data, KPIs and company/country data on an ad-hoc basis
- Develop and implement AI and automation solutions to increase productivity and efficiency
- Execute additional responsibilities as directed by the Chief of Staff
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in financial services, professional services, or related field
- Comprehensive understanding of S&P Global’s businesses, products and services
- Significant experience interacting with senior leaders
- Broad range of experience with analysis tools and frameworks
- Experience developing and implementing AI / automation solutions to increase productivity
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including storytelling with data in PowerPoint and Excel
- Demonstrated ability to handle complex situations and multiple responsibilities, simultaneously addressing the urgency of immediate demands with long-term projects
- Experience managing demanding deadlines, changing requirements, and at times, working with limited resources and ambiguity
- Proven ability to navigate effectively and efficiently within a large matrixed organization
- Very high standards of quality, accuracy and timeliness
- An undergraduate degree or equivalent
- Preferred: Effective collaboration across stakeholders, functions, and division
- Preferred: Ensures quality of processes and outputs
- Preferred: Very strong communication and facilitation together with the ability to build strong relationships and collaborate effectively across the organization to drive business results without ego
- Preferred: Ability to represent the role and the Office of the CEO with a style that is aligned with the CEO; maturity to work with confidence, urgency, diplomacy, humility; requires a high degree of confidentiality across all levels
- Preferred: Ability to handle confidential information with absolute discretion and unquestioned ethics
- Preferred: Ability to demonstrate resilience and a strong EQ to engage diplomatically, constructively, and collaboratively with stakeholders
