# Senior Executive Assistant

**Company**: Barclays
**Location**: Canary Wharf, 1 Churchill Place
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Executive Assistant to support senior executives, enabling them to navigate complex challenges, make informed decisions, and deliver against their strategic objectives.

**Purpose of the Role** The Senior Executive Assistant will provide strategic support to senior executives, including the CEO or other top-level leaders. This will involve assisting in the development and execution of in-year and multi-year business strategy, conducting research and analysis to support decision-making, and acting as a delegate for the senior executive in specific situations.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Provide strategic support to senior executives, including assistance in the development and execution of business strategy

- Manage colleague engagement planning, communication channels, and coordination across different departments and teams

- Manage key projects and strategic initiatives on behalf of senior executives, ensuring projects are on track and providing regular updates to the executive team

- Improve operational efficiency, identifying areas for improvement, streamlining processes, and implementing best practices

- Develop performance reporting for key metrics, analysing and drawing insights to drive performance

- Support senior leadership in ensuring appropriate resourcing across the business/function, including planning and forecasting, talent development, and succession planning

- Support senior executives with risk and control oversight, escalation, crisis management, and risk mitigation

- Implement a robust governance framework, supporting the board of directors, executive forums, and governance committees

**Managing Director Expectations**

- Manage a large, complex, or diverse function, taking accountability for the strategic direction of the function

- Lead and mentor high-performing teams, embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business

- Drive and achieve overall success and competitiveness of a business division by influencing senior leaders and committees

- Strategically assess and manage risks to protect the business division/function and growth

- Influence company policy and develop functional procedures in conjunction with senior leaders/strategic positions across the business

**Requirements**

- Demonstrate exceptional knowledge of how business divisions and functions integrate with the Group to achieve overall business objectives

- Maintain broad and comprehensive functional expertise and significant product knowledge

- Accountable for the control and governance agenda of the business division/function

- Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays

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## Skills

### Required
- strategic planning
- risk management
- governance
- leadership
- communication

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