Exceutive Assistant

Partner with a Collaborative CEO and his Executive Team - Work close to home with a Leading business in the Chatswood area - Excellent Remuneration, Benefits and Culture - 2/3 days in the Office Super Flex **About the company**: My client is a Communications Firm based in Chatswood. With a national presence they have offices in every state, and are part of a larger global enterprise. This market leader has evolved over the last few years and has been successful in delivering a number of unique and major projects. It's an exciting time to be a part of their business. **About the role** My client is recruiting a new role. They're looking for a highly experienced Executive Assistant to support their impressive CEO and Leadership team. The role, the Executive Assistant is primarily responsible for providing comprehensive support to the CEO, and two members of their greater leadership team. In this role, you will take ownership of all corporate services, administration tasks and any other duties to free the team's time to allow them to focus on managing their business and to ensure their success. **Key responsibilities**: - Act as a highly-trusted advisor to the CEO to provide sound advice and thought - be a sounding board for key business decisions and a business confidante. - Build strong relationships with the Executive team, supporting them in the delivery of their roles and initiatives. Help create a collaborative culture, drive positive outcomes and build strong networks internally. Be the Go To person - Provide high level calendar management to the team. Able and confident to make key decisions on behalf of your Executive's team regarding conflicting priorities - facilitate the smooth running of a constantly changing diary. Prepare meetings rooms including ordering lunch, booking conference rooms, setting up projector or video conferencing units. - Work in a professional and focused manner to schedule internal and external meetings including, Board, Committee, team projects, etc. - Provide complex international and domestic travel arrangements for the team. Become familiar with the travel policy and travel management company contacts. Become familiar with the detailed needs of the team. Create travel itineraries and be available during travel times to quickly address any last-minute changes or cancellations. - Expense Management, by managing credit cards and receipts. - Organise structured meetings, distribute meeting minutes, agendas, and meeting packs. **Skills & experience** - To be successful in this role the basic Executive Assistant duties must come naturally and what really gets you excited is the "Value Add" aspect that you can deliver. We need an Executive Assistant who is pre-emptive, forward thinking and will anticipate the needs of their executive to create a professional well run team. - We are looking for a permanent, degree qualified, Senior level Executive Assistant with over 10 years of experience at the top level, ideally C Suit (anyone that has supported a CEO, CFO, COO etc). - Being able to manage up, in terms of letting the CEO know where he is going and what is coming up. - Be the go to person for the leadership team and a real a confidante when it comes to being a sounding board. - Most importantly, the EA will be someone he can trust with high emotional intelligence. Don't miss out on this rare senior opportunity that is close to home, with in an amazing team.