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JD Sports Fashion plc

Executive Assistant to Group CFO

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Meeting with Group CFO at the start of every week to understand priorities and plan for the coming weeks, support in compiling required information for various trade and other meetings.
• Supports CFO as appropriate by researching and directing correspondence; screening and responding to e-mails; drafting letters and responding on behalf of the CFO.
• Supporting with preparation of documents or presentations; collecting and analysing information; setting up various meetings and virtual (Microsoft Teams) calls.
• Maintains and manages CFO diary by planning and scheduling meetings, meeting rooms, conference calls and making appropriate arrangements for travel and hospitality.
• Tracks and ensures expenses are submitted on behalf of the group.
• Welcomes guests and customers by greeting them, in person or on the telephone; answering or directing enquiries.
• Maintains customer and employee confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential.
• Attends various meetings as required by the CFO, taking minutes, distributing actions and following up on actions with relevant parties, ensuring deadlines are met.
• Prepares and distributes reports by collecting and analysing information on behalf of the CFO.
• Secures information by completing backups of electronic files where required.
• Provides historical reference by developing paper based and electronic filing and retrieval systems relevant to CFO, ensuring compliance with various legal and regulatory bodies.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks.
• Assists and provides back up for the other Executive Assistants, where required.
• Contributes to team effort by supporting and completing other duties as required.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:

• Strong, effective written and spoken communication skills along with excellent research and organizational skills.
• Evidence of and a commitment to practice a high level of confidentiality.
• Strong experience in planning, organizing and carrying out the daily activities and administrative functions in a sensitive, highly visible and dynamic and organizational environment, requiring management of multiple and rapidly changing priorities.
• Strong office administrative and management practices and procedures.
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Office with the ability to learn new software and computer systems as well as advanced use of PowerPoint, spreadsheet, graphics and other business management software. Must be flexible and be able to work in a high change, quick-paced environment.
• Must be a team player and be willing to receive and act on direction and motivated to take on responsibility to completion.
• Make a wide variety of logistical arrangements independently or from brief instructions.
• Establish and maintain highly effective working relationships with senior management. Use a high degree of tact, discretion and diplomacy in dealing with confidential and sensitive matters.

The Company:

The JD Group is a leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 60,000 colleagues over 3,400 stores across several retail fascia's in over 30 markets around the world.

We are an equal opportunities employer who embraces and values differences. We recognise the importance of an inclusive workplace culture in which everyone can thrive irrespective of their background or identity.

To be a part of this successful and continuously growing company, you will have the desire to engrain our strategic goals of being a people first, a digital leader and customer focused organisation which provides operational excellence and is continuous with identifying new areas of growth into our day to day.

We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:

• Incremental Holiday Allowance
• Staff Discount on qualifying purchases across Group retail stores and online
• Exclusive Colleague Bike Discount scheme
• Discounted Gym membership
• Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work
• Access to Apprenticeships and accredited qualifications

Interested?

If you interested in this position, then press the Apply Now button.

Due to the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it takes time to review them all. If you don't hear back within two weeks of you applying, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful on this occasion

Applications that meet the skills criteria will be contacted for a 1st stage meeting with the talent team. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to interview with the hiring manager.

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