Job Title: Executive Assistant to Managing Director of BCB SME
Location: London or Birmingham or Bristol
Hours: Full-time
Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our London, Birmingham or Bristol office. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy.
What you’ll be doing:
Love a challenge? Thrive in a fast paced environment where no two days are the same?
This is an exciting opportunity to become the trusted advisor and Executive Assistant to the Managing Director of BCB SME, supporting one of the UK's largest SME banking businesses and helping shape the future of the sector.
You'll provide executive support at GEC-1 level while building positive relationships across Business and Commercial Banking and key partners throughout the Group. Working within the MD's Office, the engine room of a business supporting more than 300 colleagues across the UK, you'll play a key role in delivering strategic priorities, driving business management activities and supporting a colleague centred culture.
You'll prepare and coordinate high quality documents, slide decks, and materials for board meetings, support the delivery of strategic projects, manage senior partner relationships across Finance, Risk, People and Governance teams, and respond to high priority business requests. You'll also own the day to day management of the Managing Director's Office, champion continuous improvement initiatives, support colleague engagement activities and help deliver internal events that strengthen culture and connectivity across the business.
Why join us?
We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone, make change happen and challenge the status quo. Sound like you?
What we’re looking for:
- 5 years’ experience providing executive support to senior leaders in a large, complex commercial organisation.
- 5 years experience partnering senior leaders with strategic planning transformation, change or continuous improvement initiatives.
- Experience leading or coordinating business activities, projects, events or operational initiatives across multiple teams and functions. including preparation of reports, presentations and board level materials.
- Strong organisational skills with proven experience managing multiple priorities, operating at pace and delivering high quality outcomes.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to engage, influence and build relationships with senior stakeholders.
- Sound judgement, attention to detail and working independently while handling sensitive and confidential information.
And any experience of these would be great:
- Knowledge of Business and Commercial Banking or the financial services sector.
We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this advert may reference specific experience, we recognise that skills are developed in different ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.
This is a place for you:
Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities, and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.
We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.
We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.
We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
- A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
- An annual performance-related bonus
- Share schemes including free shares
- Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
- 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
- A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Like what you hear? Join us!
