Executive Assistant

1. Calendar and Meeting Management

  Manage an intricate and dynamic calendar, balancing competing priorities while maintaining flexibility and ensuring optimal time allocation.

  Plan, schedule, and manage high-profile internal and external meetings, ensuring the Senior Manager is prepared with all necessary materials and insights.

  Anticipate conflicts and proactively resolve scheduling challenges, often at short notice.

  Lead weekly calendar strategy sessions to align priorities with the broader organizational goals.

2. Communication and Correspondence

  Draft and edit critical internal correspondence to the highest standard of accuracy and professionalism.

  Handle sensitive communications with discretion and tact.

  Build and maintain trusted relationships with key stakeholders, clients, and senior executives.

3. Travel and Event Coordination

  Orchestrate seamless and often complex travel arrangements, including commercial transport, visas, accommodations.

  Provide real-time support for international travel, ensuring that all logistics are flawless and adaptable to changes.

  Manage high-stakes client events, and dinners, ensuring a superior standard of execution and attention to detail.

4. Operational Excellence

  Serve as the Senior Manager’s operational linchpin, proactively driving efficiency in workflows, meeting preparation, and follow-ups.

  Handle high volumes of expense management, procurement approvals.

5. Compliance

Seamless understanding of SG procedures, to ensure compliance with policies and also ensuring the most appropriate course of action on exceptions requests are taken.

6. Coordination

Coordination with core attendees to meetings, to ensure material is circulated in advance and provided to me on the format required, including printing

·        Understanding global markets and financial services to facilitate informed decision-making and communication

·        Communication and cooperation skills

·        Good organisation skills and capacity to handle many different subjects at the same time

·        Rigorous and reliable. On time delivery and respect of deadline

·        Natural problem solvers who are analytical and structured in their thinking

·        Providing smart and relevant solutions

·        Strict respect of the Code of Conduct, compliance and risk procedures

·        Interpersonal skills: good relationships with other partners in Société Générale

·        Needs to regularly communicate information that is timely, relevant, and tailored to each audience. This includes being transparent about both positive and negative developments.

People join for the impact they can have on us. They stay for the impact we have on them. A flatter structure offers visibility and exposure beyond that of our competitors, so you know our names, and we know yours. It's personable, human, and inspires success through passion. By encouraging open mindedness and a willingness to share ideas, we have adapted to market changes and thrived through innovation. Bringing words like “hard work” and “dedication” together with “community” and “respect” has enabled us to work collaboratively and build our future together. We call this Team Spirit and it's what makes us different. It's what makes you different.

If you feel you have the required experience and qualifications, then please apply to the SG Resourcing Team, and we will manage your application. At Société Générale, we believe our people are our strength and are core to the success of our business. As such, we search for, recruit and appoint the best available person on the basis of aptitude and ability, regardless of sex, marital or civil partnership status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, pregnancy, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, belief or gender identity.