Personal Assistant
Barclays · Posted Oct 27
Banking, credit card, corporate, investment banking, and wealth management services
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About the role
Barclays is a global financial services organisation. The Pune-based Personal Assistant provides administrative and organisational support to executives, managers, or teams. The role manages calendars, travel, expenses, filing and other day-to-day administrative tasks while coordinating with stakeholders across global locations and time zones.
What you will do
- To provide administrative and organisational support to executives, managers, or teams.
- To manage schedules, acting as a trusted point of contact, ensuring seamless coordination, efficient task management, and a professional presence for their assigned individuals or teams.
- Management of executive, managers or team calendars and overseeing timely responses to meeting invitations and requests.
- Planning and arranging travel itineraries, including flights, accommodation and ground transportation, ensuring timely and efficient travel for the executive or team.
- Proactively anticipating the needs of the executive or team, prioritising tasks, and ensuring timely completion.
- Management of day-to-day administrative tasks, such as expenses, maintaining filing systems, and ordering office supplies, annual leave records management, distribution list management and organisation management tasks.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Diary and calendar management and travel and expense management.
- Effective communication skills both verbally and written especially in a global set up.
- Excellent knowledge on the Microsoft tools
- Keep calm and handle crisis and multi-tasking through priorities .
- Ability to work in a virtual team across multiple locations and time zone.
- Confident when dealing with senior stakeholders and providing challenge when needed
- Analysis, problem solving and decision-making skills.
Preferred qualifications
- People management experience including appraisals.
- Ability to work in global set up with stakeholders across the world
- Flexibility with shifts.
- Be “tech savvy” interested by the opportunities technology provides for quality, efficiency, automation, and accuracy.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Barclays
Barclays is a British multinational universal bank that provides consumer, corporate, and investment banking, as well as wealth management services. Tracing its origins back to 1690 in London, the institution operates globally to serve millions of retail and institutional clients. The bank leverages cutting-edge technology and digital platforms to drive operational efficiency across its international network.
- Industry
- Banking
- Company size
- 93000+ employees
- Founded
- 1690
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Group Chief Executive
Group Finance Director
Group Chief Operating Officer
Recent coverage
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Euronews
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