Job Description

Role Responsibilities

Executive assistants are the last line of defence against errors: Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, energy, and enthusiasm. A proactive individual that is focused on attention to detail.

Business

• Manage and protect business as usual (BAU) capability during the Change Process.
• Provide subject matter expert advice, guidance, and support to the project managers on managing change.
• Review new business requirements and provide solutions where required.

Processes

• Mailbox/Calendar management .
• Actively manage service recipient\xe2\x80\x99s mailbox including and not limited to drafting responses on behalf, scheduling appointments, setting reminders, arranging travel, and expenses.
• Manage any appointment/scheduling conflicts in the best possible ways.
• Work closely with stakeholders and ensure that all meetings/appointment details are updated in the service recipient\xe2\x80\x99s calendar, accurately and timely.
• Mark leaves, working from home, public holidays as per locations and travel itineraries on the calendar, where appropriate.

Meeting/Event management

• Prepare and coordinates meetings including publishing agenda and recording minutes/actions accurately.
• Coordinate weekly huddle and track action (follow-up to ensure closure of outstanding actions).
• Where required, pre-book meeting facilities (rooms or communication software such as video or audio-conferencing facilities).
• If participants include external parties for physical meeting appointments, ensure there is a local support to meet-and-greet visitors and abide by local protocols.
• Actively participate in all staff engagement activities organised by team members and assist in coordinating activities to make an event successful.

Travel & Expenses management

• Plan itinerary appropriately to ensure sufficient buffer for touch-down and departure for traveller.
• Always choose the Bank\xe2\x80\x99s or Company\xe2\x80\x99s preferred airlines, rails, hotels and transfer options.
• Ensure travel-related documents are prepared ahead (including VISA/immigration requirements, etc.,)
• Be available to support anytime during travel to assist in last minute requests, if any.
• Check for traveller\xe2\x80\x99s preferences (such as room type, bed type, smoking/non-smoking needs, dietary restrictions, allergies, etc) and make necessary arrangements accordingly

Prior to travel, ensure detailed agenda is provided to traveller, including landmarks, contact persons and references ahead of traveller\xe2\x80\x99s itinerary. * Review and validate any travel and expenses claims submitted for approval.

• Collect all relevant receipts from service recipients or requester.
• Check bills are as per the Group\xe2\x80\x99s Travel & Expenses or related financial guidelines.
• Scan and file all records in softcopy, whilst ensuring details of expenses are recorded in order.
• Enter details in the system with correct code and descriptions; submit for approval and follow-up till completion (approval), providing clarifications as required to claims approver (or approver\xe2\x80\x99s delegate).
• Proactively guide service recipients or requester about limits as per Bank\xe2\x80\x99s travel and expense policies, before expenses are incurred.
• Ensure adherence to budget plans, as required.

People & Talent

• Work closely with Talent Acquisition (TA) to coordinate arrangements \xe2\x80\x93 raise job requisition (JR), compile resumes, arrange interviews, update progress tracker and finalise/close JR with TA.
• Arrange recruitment huddle with hiring managers for screening, progress updates and finalisation, in the frequency requested by the service recipient.
• Understand the Bank\xe2\x80\x99s and Company\xe2\x80\x99s procedure and rules, around the recruitment and/or onboarding for Non-Employed Workers.

Risk Management

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group\xe2\x80\x99s Values and Code of Conduct.
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Lead the right environment to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank\xe2\x80\x99s Conduct Principles.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Governance

• Ensure understand the governance to identify, manage and monitor risks.
• Abide and adhere to all rules, procedures, and process.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group\xe2\x80\x99s Values and Code of Conduct.
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• In the course of daily responsibilities, abide by Bank\xe2\x80\x99s Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.].
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
• Exercise authorities in accordance with the respective regulatory requirements and the Bank\xe2\x80\x99s Group Delegation Authorities policies and manual (and act in accordance with Articles of Association, or equivalent).

Key stakeholders

• All Executive Assistant Services (\xe2\x80\x9cEAS\xe2\x80\x9d) members.
• All EAS service recipients as well as any other Standard Chartered Group colleagues.

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group\xe2\x80\x99s brand and values Across the team. policies and procedures; Multiple functions.
• Embed Here for good and Group\xe2\x80\x99s brand and values in team.
• Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures.

Our Ideal Candidate

Qualifications

Training, Memberships And Certifications

• Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s Degree / Graduates from a recognised university.

• 3 \xe2\x80\x93 7 years of relevant work experience as an Executive Assistant, Personal Secretary Administrative Assistant in an international firm preferred.

• Any secretarial course / certification will be an added advantage.

Key skills

• Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook (eMail), Word, Excel , Powerpoint, Chrome, SharePoint, etc.,

• Business correspondence skills with excellent proficiency of English \xe2\x80\x93 written and spoken.

• Typing and/or short-hand \xe2\x80\x93 reasonable typing speed to record dictation; with excellent accuracy to produce well document and accurate set of meeting minutes.

• Experience in handling and hosting Bluejeans and Microsoft teams calls, meetings.

About Standard Chartered

We\'re an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 years, we\'ve worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you\'re looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents. And we can\'t wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you\'ll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion. Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations
• Time-off including annual, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.
• Recruitment assessments - some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you\'ve applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.

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