Executive Assistant London, England

Aviva

Full Time London, England 43500 - 48981 GBP ANNUAL Today

Job description

Executive Assistant

Do you have experience of working in a large and complex corporate environment? Are you highly organised with strong planning skills? If this, is you then we are looking for an Executive Assistant to join our team based in London.

A bit about the job:

An EA provides effective and efficient high-level executive support to Directors including the prioritisation of work, diary management, meetings management and communication, document

production, quality assurance and governance, with some lower-level support provided to the Directors immediate teams. You will be accountable for highlighting when upcoming cyclical and management deadlines for reports, reviews, budgets are due and chase teams to ensure these deadlines are met. You will be there to assist your director in researching and following up on actions which fall within their responsibility post meetings, and you will also need to help your director prepare for meetings (this includes agendas, pre meeting briefings and meeting papers.)

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

High degree of discretion and confidentiality in dealing with sensitive

information

Ability to solve problems independently and pull in additional support and expertise where required
Experience of meeting / speaking with customers, internal and external stakeholders at chairman / Exec level
Strong networking skills - Strong planning, prioritisation, re-prioritisation, time management and organisation - Business acumen and credibility
Ability to work with extensive amounts of information

What you’ll get for this role:

Generous pension (starting level Aviva contributes 8% when you contribute 2%)
Eligibility for annual performance bonus
Family friendly parental and carer’s leave
Generous holiday entitlement plus bank holidays with the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days
Up to 40% discount for Aviva products
Brilliant flexible benefits including electric cars
Aviva Matching Share Plan and Save As You Earn scheme
21 volunteering hours per year

Aviva is for everyone:

We are inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Excited but not sure you tick every box? Research tells us that women, particularly, feel this way. So, regardless of gender, why not apply. And if you’re in a job share just apply as a pair.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you.

Most of our people are smart working – spending around 60% of their time in our offices and 40% at home.

We interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send us an email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we’ll interview you.

We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, send an email to

[email protected]

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