Executive Assistant - Financial Sector [211474]

This is an exciting opportunity to join a leading global technology company that is transforming the world through digital experiences.

Our mission is to empower everyone, from emerging artists to global brands, with the tools they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences.

We are passionate about fostering creativity and innovation, enabling our customers to create powerful images, videos, and applications, and revolutionizing how companies interact across every screen.

We are seeking a highly strategic and proactive Executive Assistant to serve as the indispensable right-hand partner to a senior leader driving a critical strategic initiative within our organization.

This pivotal role is your opportunity to directly influence high-impact strategic endeavors, facilitate executive-level engagements with key external partners, and significantly contribute to value creation across a dynamic team.

You will be instrumental in ensuring our leader can focus on strategic priorities, making a tangible impact on the success of groundbreaking projects.

What You’ll Do

• Arrange complex corporate travel and meetings, including developing detailed itineraries and agendas, booking transportation and accommodation, and securing any necessary visas for global engagements with strategic external partners.
• Manage the senior leader’s appointment schedule by planning and coordinating meetings, conferences, and travel, while proactively safeguarding strategic focus time.
• Organize high-stakes leadership meetings, offsites, governance sessions, and external partner engagements, preparing agendas, briefing materials, taking notes, and driving follow-up on action items.
• Complete projects and special assignments by establishing objectives, determining priorities, managing time, gaining cooperation from others, monitoring progress, and actively problem-solving.
• Produce professional information by transcribing, formatting, inputting, editing, retrieving, copying, and transmitting text, data, and graphics for executive presentations and reports related to strategic initiatives.
• Welcome guests and customers by greeting them in person or by telephone, answering or directing inquiries with professionalism, often involving senior stakeholders from the external partner ecosystem.
• Maintain customer and organizational confidence by keeping highly sensitive information confidential, including deal-related, portfolio, and strategic matters.
• Improve quality results by studying, evaluating, and re-designing processes, implementing changes to enhance efficiency within the team.
• Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing publications, establishing personal networks, and participating in professional societies.
• Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed and supporting broader coordination across account directors, analysts, operations, marketing, and other functions.

Required Skills & Experience

• Solid experience in a similar Executive Assistant role, preferably supporting senior leaders in an international technology, sales, consulting, or strategic finance environment.
• Exceptional writing, reporting, presentation, and verbal communication skills.
• Early adopter of AI for efficiency, with confidence in leveraging advanced capabilities beyond basic prompts.
• Strong organization, time management, and multitasking abilities with keen attention to detail.
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills (Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Word) and proficiency with collaboration tools.
• Proven experience managing complex travel logistics, scheduling, and stakeholder coordination at a global level.
• Ability to handle highly confidential information with the highest level of discretion and integrity.
• A positive, energetic attitude with a passion for supporting strategic growth initiatives in fast-moving environments.

Preferred Skills

• Prior experience in a high-stakes finance environment, such as private capital, venture investment, or similar, is a bonus.

Client Description

A multinational cloud-based software company specialising in a series of products designed to drive creative innovation across multimedia.

Used by millions around the world for personal and professional use across all industries.

Aquent is dedicated to improving inclusivity & is proudly an equal opportunities employer.

We encourage applications from under-represented groups & are committed to providing support to applicants with disabilities.

We aim to provide reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, to those with a medical condition, disability or neurodivergence.