Executive Assistant - Barclays Internal Audit

About the role

Join as an Executive Assistant - Barclays Internal Audit, providing high-impact, trusted support to the department, including the Chief Internal Auditor and the Chief Operating Office. Your primary responsibility will be to ensure the effective management of priorities, including day-to-day operations, scheduling, and the production of meeting materials, enabling the department to operate at maximum effectiveness.

Responsibilities

• Ensure effective management of priorities, including day-to-day operations, scheduling, and the production of meeting materials.
• Proactively anticipate needs, manage calendars, and serve as a key point of contact for senior stakeholders across the Audit function.
• Manage competing priorities with professionalism, discretion, and sound judgment.
• Work closely with the Americas Chief of Staff, departmental colleagues, and other Barclays Executive Assistants to deliver seamless, coordinated support.
• Provide coverage and contribute to a broad range of priorities and deliverables to ensure continuity, consistency, and effective execution across the function.

Requirements

• Experience supporting C-suite or ExCo-level executives within a corporate environment or similarly complex organization, with strong proficiency in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio).
• Effectively operate under tight deadlines, manage multiple priorities while maintaining strict confidentiality, and remain flexible in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities.
• Attention to detail.
• A proactive, collaborative approach, combined with strong personal accountability and the ability to work independently.
• Clear, professional communication skills, with experience handling executive-level correspondence while exercising sound judgment and discretion.
• Partnership skills, including experience working alongside team members to deliver coordinated global support.
• Flexibility and resilience to adapt working hours and office presence to align with executive schedules and evolving business needs.

Qualifications

• Experience using tools such as Concur, Coupa, Workday, and document management systems.
• Experience using Microsoft Copilot or other AI productivity tools.

Skills

• Highly valued skills include experience with global coordination, including complex travel arrangements and multi-time-zone scheduling.

Benefits

Highest level of confidentiality and discretion is essential.

Pay

Salary minimum: $110,000
Salary maximum: $140,000

Schedule

The role requires flexibility in working patterns, including time in the office, to align with senior management schedules, office events, meetings requiring support, and evolving business needs.