Executive Assistant to Chief Finance Officer

At Just we encourage a flexible and agile working environment for the majority of our opportunities. Get in touch with us to discuss in more detail.

Key Responsibilities:

• To support the CFO and be involved in their business activities, including work of a highly confidential and sensitive nature.
• Offer full EA support, including review all incoming correspondence (including emails) and action as appropriate. Follow up on required business items to progress actions and ensure outcomes are achieved, and ensure the CFO meets all required deadlines.
• To manage and control the CFO’s diary and to resolve any scheduling issues, including ensuring sufficient time to complete the CFO’s priorities and optimise the time they spent in the office. Quickly adapt the calendar according to priorities and business needs.
• To arrange travel and accommodation for business trips
• To organise off-site company meetings where required - sourcing venues, controlling and monitoring the contracts and budgets. Including results presentations and investor roadshows.
• To provide quality and timely EA support including co-ordinating and preparation of agendas, reports, presentations and minutes as required
• Processing of expenses claims, ensuring these adhere to Company policy
• Provide the wider team support on various administration and operational tasks as required
• To act as the conduit for communication between the Finance department and the other internal departments and the external contacts, demonstrating leadership to maintain credibility, trust and support with senior management
• To maintain own competence and personal development

Skills and Experience:

• Considerable Executive Assistant experience gained working at a Senior Board level/ CFO
• Able to provide excellent administrative and organisational support with the ability to plan and prioritise
• Ability to liaise at all levels with excellent communication skills, in dealing with the most senior of internal and external contacts and exercising diplomacy and discretion at all times
• Ability to work on own initiative with a highly flexible attitude, whilst maintaining a high degree of confidentiality
• Ability to manage a high volume workload and deliver to a consistently high standard under pressure, maintaining accuracy whilst achieving timescales.
• Good time management and the ability to work flexibly to meet the needs of the business
• High level of initiative and self-motivation
• Adopt a confident, flexible attitude to managing competing demands
• Excellent inter-personal and communication skills both oral and written
• Excellent IT skills including advanced Outlook, advanced Word, intermediate Excel, advanced PowerPoint
• Team player with a strong work ethic and ability to build relationships with a range of individuals .

Company Benefits

• A Competitive Salary, Pension Scheme and Life Assurance
• Along with 25 Days Annual Leave plus an Additional Day on us for your Birthday
• Private Medical Cover and Income Protection, just in case
• A generous and highly achievable bonus scheme – paid annually based on individual and company performance against targets
• Opportunity to progress within your career both in-role and within the company
• FREE access to the Headspace App, a 24/7 Employee Assistance Helpline and Trained Physical & Mental Health First Aiders (On-Site)
• A variety of Employee Funded Benefits available to you via our Online Benefits Portal
• Plus, several additional purchase options available for you and your loved one

About Us

We’re a FTSE 250 Financial Services company who specialise in retirement solutions and right now, our world is moving pretty quickly.

How people work, save, and plan for the future is all changing.  A new generation of retirees needs a new kind of retirement company.  A company who will look for new ways of doing things – and will always put the customer first. 

That’s who we are. We’re a company on a mission: to become a beacon for the entire retirement industry.  Because we believe everyone deserves a fair, secure, and fulfilling retirement.  And with you on our team, we’re going to make sure they get it.

We’ve built our sustainability strategy around the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and have selected goals where we believe we can make the most difference. By aligning our activity with these global goals, we can make sure we play our part in addressing the wider issues facing the planet and leave a positive legacy to the world. You can read more about our sustainability strategy here .

Diversity, equity and inclusion are priorities for us. Having a diverse, talented workforce with colleagues of different backgrounds, world views and experiences is the right thing to do. It’s also the most effective way to succeed, innovate and better serve our customers now and in the future. We are committed to our targets on gender and ethnicity and run a number of successful mentoring and sponsorship programmes for our colleagues from diverse backgrounds. We have multiple active employee network groups which champion issues including gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and neurodiversity. You can read more about our DE&I strategy and commitments here .

What’s clear about working at Just is that we care. We care about our customers, our purpose, our environment, inclusivity, wellbeing and most importantly - each other. We look forward to welcoming you to the team soon.