Executive Assistant to the Chief Financial Officer, Commercial Business
Sandisk · Milpitas, CA · 1 wk ago
AdministrativeFull-time
About the role
The successful candidate will provide high-level administrative and operational support to a Senior Vice President and multiple Vice Presidents.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate staff meetings, leadership meetings, all-hands meetings, offsites, and executive reviews, including agenda planning, pre-read coordination, action item tracking, follow-up ownership, and closure of next steps.
- Own executive calendar; coordinate across senior executives, business partners and team members by prioritizing schedules and qualifying requests.
- Proactively solicit agendas and manage attendee lists.
- Cook up logistics for travel by developing itineraries, booking domestic and international flights, arranging transportation and accommodation.
- Leverage Microsoft 365, Copilot, Teams, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, and other approved productivity tools to streamline workflows, summarize information, prepare meeting materials, track follow-ups, and improve executive efficiency.
- Provide vacation coverage for other EAs as needed.
- Identify opportunities to simplify, automate, or improve recurring administrative processes, communications, meeting routines, and team operating cadences.
- Manage a wide range of administrative and executive related tasks, including drafting routine correspondence and organizing/maintaining electronic files, updating distribution lists, onboarding new hires, creating/updating organizational charts, expense approvals, creating PR/PO and coordinating AV and IT requirements for meetings.
- Reconcile expenses in a timely manner adhering to Sandisk’s global expense policies.
- Anticipate needs and identify problems proactively, looking around corners for solutions and using existing resources in problem-solving.
- Provide assistance with formatting, editing, creating, and consolidating executive-ready presentations, briefing materials, meeting agendas, and office documents with strong attention to clarity, accuracy, and visual polish.
- Advanced PowerPoint skills are highly preferred.
- Interact regularly and build trusted relationships with executives, Finance leaders, business partners, team members, and colleagues across functions.
- Partner closely with other Executive Assistants to coordinate priorities, resolve calendar and logistics conflicts, provide coverage, share best practices, and ensure a smooth operating rhythm across the leadership team.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent work experience required) and 5+ years supporting an SVP.
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft applications (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook and Teams).
- Experience working in a support role with C-suite administrative staff is preferred.
- Comfort using AI-enabled productivity tools responsibly to improve organization, communication, meeting preparation, document creation, and follow-up tracking.
- Strong digital fluency and curiosity; able to quickly learn new tools and help the broader team adopt better ways of working.
- High-ownership mindset with strong follow-through, accountability, and the ability to close loops without repeated direction.
- Intuitive problem-solver with thoughtful anticipation of deliverables.
- Bias for action; able to move quickly, make priority calls, manage ambiguity, and drive work to completion across stakeholders.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Highly organized, resourceful, and proactive in identifying better ways of achieving goals.
- Excellent time management skills.
- Collaborative and relationship-oriented, with the ability to partner effectively with Finance leaders, business partners, team members, and other Executive Assistants.
- Demonstrates leadership.
- Enthusiastic, kind, inclusive, and ethically minded.