
Executive Assistant London, England
Job description
As an Executive Assistant at Klarna, you will be responsible for anticipating, prioritizing, and organizing all activities with regards to the Executive you work with and other senior leader’s calendar’s, travel, and general work life. Also you will be helping out with administrative tasks within the domain, coordinating and administering around all different projects on the table.A normal EA job description would tell you the basics: managing day to day activities, coordinating calendar and travel, planning and scheduling events, maintaining budgets, and completing expense reports. To be clear, you’ll do that….but not just that. We want you to thrive and make a difference. We want you to understand our complex and rapidly changing organization, then add business value by bringing your voice to the table, asking hard questions, and giving insights where others may have missed something. You’ll anticipate needs, solve problems, and help us build and deliver amazing products and solutions.
Job Description
- Supporting in various fields, such as calendars, scheduling events, coordinating domestic and international travel.
- Additionally, you will have the opportunity to be involved in one-off projects and initiatives – generally you should be ready to contribute across the business and provide structure and organisation wherever possible.
- Willingness to travel
In order to be successful in this role, you will need to have:
- Strong time management, process management, and productivity skills.
- Ability to quickly build a network/partnerships across the organisation.
- A strong service mindset.
- Quick on your feet.
- Analytical and like to work within Sheets (G-suite).
- A passion for administration done properly.
- Be an expert in calendar management and knowing when to prioritise.
- A self-starter with a pragmatic approach – if you see something that needs fixing or support, you don’t hesitate to step in.
- Consistently and proactively suggest and introduce new ways of working to improve effectiveness, you are a team player and you love to work at a high pace.
Experience
- Previous experience in roles that require service skills and delivery towards short deadlines.
- Experience from administrative & logistic work tasks.
- Proven experience working with sensitive information.
- Excellent Google suit-skills.
- Fluency skills in verbal and written English.
Diversity & Community
Ownership & Impact
If you love what you do, you should love where you do it. We appreciate that everyone’s different and has their own preferences of where and how to work. We genuinely believe in the power of regular face-to-face interactions in building close connections with our teams, but we also strongly believe people can work effectively remotely. This means that combining both is the key to success.
At Klarna, You can choose between working from the office, remotely within your employment country, or even outside of it for up to 20 working days per year. Flex it up!
Challenges & Rewards
It is our commitment that every qualified person will be evaluated according to skills regardless of age, gender, identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability status or religion. Please refrain from including your picture and age with the application.