Executive Assistant London, England
Job description
Bring your ideas. Make history.
BNY Mellon offers an exciting array of future-forward careers at the intersection of business, finance, and technology. We are one of the world's top asset management and banking firms that manages trillions of dollars in assets, custody and/or administration. Known as the “bank of banks” - 97% of the world’s top banks work with us as we lead and serve our customers into the new era of digital.
With over 239 years of rich history and industry firsts, BNY Mellon has been built upon our proven ability to evolve, lead, and drive new ideas at every turn. Today, we’re approximately 50,000 employees across 35 countries with a culture that empowers you to grow, take risks, experiment and be yourself. This is what #LifeAtBNYMellon is all about.
We’re seeking a strong Executive Assistant to join our Pershing team. The role will primarily support the Head of Pershing EMEA and the Chief Commercial Officer. Pershing provides a broad range of financial business solutions to investment banks, broker-dealers, wealth managers, financial planners, and advisers across EMEA. We provide sophisticated front-end technology and flexible middle office capabilities with execution, settlement, and custody services. These are supported by a robust regulatory and compliance framework with dedicated client asset experience and expertise. This role is in London in and is Hybrid.
In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:
- Works autonomously to perform advanced Exec Support activities including diary management, expenses, travel booking and minute taking without supervision.
- Responsible for independently producing agendas, board packs, documentation for meetings in advance of meeting date without reminder.
- Responsible for the scheduling, room booking, VC co-ordination of CSD meetings across the UK, Jersey, Dublin and India.
- Regularly writes content and produces documentation of a management standard ranging from business justifications, to powerpoint slides for presentations to intranet blogs on a range of topics.
- Proactively owns the co-ordination of management/business activities required on an annual basis. This could include scheduling meetings for management in regards to PMPs, Skip Levels, Recruitment days and Town Halls, ensuring that deadlines are met and meetings are booked to allowing adequate time for process completion.
- Responsible for tasks such as the upkeep of the monthly headcount, monitoring of all new recruits, set up of new hire requisitions (temp and perm,)
- Minute taking and action tracking for designated meetings, producing minutes and documentation for distribution that requires no/minimal correction
- Upkeep and maintenance of any required management MI (including recruitment/turnover data).
- Acts as cover for other EAs
- Acts as cover minute taker for other meetings
- Acts as liaison with external suppliers as required
To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following:
- Must have extensive EA experience (incl minute taking) plus experience either of staff management, a task/project based workload or matrix management.
- Must have experience of proactively arranging Executive members’ calendars, travel, expenses board packs, agendas without instruction.
- Must be able to anticipate forthcoming meeting changes/requirements and categorise urgency.
- Must have experience of writing and producing documentation of a management standard and running projects/responsibilities independently.
- Must be able to evidence experience of liaison with management in order to actively chase and close down actions, source documentation in advance of meetings and monitor adherence to policy.
- Must be able to evidence an understanding of the depth of meeting minutes and action recording required for governance and regulatory meetings to an external auditable standard with minimal corrections required.
At BNY Mellon, our inclusive culture speaks for itself. Here’s a few of our awards:
- Fortune World’s Most Admired Companies & Top 20 for Diversity and Inclusion
- Bloomberg’s Gender Equality Index (GEI)
- Human Rights Campaign Foundation, 100% score Corporate Equality Index
- Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion , Disability: IN – 100% score
- 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators, Fast Company
- CDP’s Climate Change ‘A List’
- Forbes Blockchain 50
Our Benefits:
BNY Mellon offers highly competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs rooted in a strong culture of excellence and our pay-for-performance philosophy. We provide access to flexible global resources and tools for your life’s journey. Focus on your health, foster your personal resilience, and reach your financial goals as a valued member of our team, along with generous paid leaves that can support you and your family through moments that matter.
BNY Mellon is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer - Underrepresented racial and ethnic groups/Females/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.
BNY Mellon is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Minorities/Females/Individuals With Disabilities/Protected Veterans.
Our ambition is to build the best global team – one that is representative and inclusive of the diverse talent, clients and communities we work with and serve – and to empower our team to do their best work. We support wellbeing and a balanced life, and offer a range of family-friendly, inclusive employment policies and employee forums.
