# Executive Assistant - GIP Infrastructure Credit

**Company**: BlackRock
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q219635

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## Description

About this role

We are seeking an Executive Assistant to support senior members of our GIP team. The ideal candidate will have significant experience supporting senior management in a fast-paced global financial services firm, as well as project management experience. The role requires a high degree of flexibility, problem-solving abilities, and discretion in handling confidential information.

Key Responsibilities

- Manage daily calendars for senior team members, adjusting or prioritizing schedules as needed.
- Arrange and reserve conference rooms, catering, audio/video, and other services for meetings and conferences.
- Coordinate travel arrangements and submit expense reports efficiently using Concur.
- Drive key team activities and events, such as team meetings, strategy sessions, and conferences.
- Handle tasks proactively and efficiently to ensure seamless coverage for all supported staff.
- Help the team manage and drive projects, ensuring deliverables come in at agreed-upon timelines.

Qualifications

- 5+ years of administrative experience, preferably at a large global organization in the financial services industry.
- Strong skills in MS Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and experience working with automated expense tracking, online travel, and similar systems.
- Excellent strategic, interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills.
- Passion for team building, forging connections, and fostering firm culture.
- Strong time management skills, ability to handle multiple concurrent assignments, and meet deadlines.
- Discretion in handling confidential information in all aspects of work.
- Able and willing to work independently, seeking guidance when appropriate, in a fast-paced, demanding environment.

Our benefits

To help you stay energized, engaged, and inspired, we offer a wide range of employee benefits, including retirement investment tools, education reimbursement, comprehensive resources for physical and emotional well-being, family support programs, and Flexible Time Off (FTO).

Our hybrid work model

BlackRock's hybrid work model is designed to enable a culture of collaboration and apprenticeship that enriches the experience of our employees, while supporting flexibility for all. Employees are currently required to work at least 4 days in the office per week, with the flexibility to work from home 1 day a week.

About BlackRock

At BlackRock, we are all connected by one mission: to help more and more people experience financial well-being. Our clients, and the people they serve, are saving for retirement, paying for their children's educations, buying homes, and starting businesses. Their investments also help to strengthen the global economy: support businesses small and large; finance infrastructure projects that connect and power cities; and facilitate innovations that drive progress.

## Skills

### Required
- MS Word
- Excel
- Outlook
- PowerPoint
- Concur
- automated expense tracking
- online travel