Executive Assistant - Group General Counsel and Company Secretary

Full Job Description

The Role
 

Provide executive assistant support to the Group General Counsel and Company Secretary.

Responsibilities:

• Provide efficient, responsive, and confidential executive assistant support to the Group General Counsel and Company Secretary ensuring that her priorities are actioned and achieved.
   
• Manage incoming communications (mail, telephone calls and messages) and diaries, including travel itineraries, ensuring the optimum use of time.

• Utilise detailed business and organisational awareness to ensure effective engagement with executives across the organisation and external contacts on behalf of the Group General Counsel.

• Be required to manage and process Group General Counsel expenses / invoices, and billing/invoicing as required.

• Be required organise or support team meetings and events.

• Provide administrative support as directed by the Group General Counsel to the Legal Operations Director for project work, and on an ad hoc basis to senior lawyers in the Legal Group.

What you’ll need:

• Proven experience of providing executive administrative support at a C-Suite level.

• Track record of managing business administration processes, for example, Workday.

• Ability to manage challenging and conflicting priorities.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and ability to work with different cultures and ways of doing business.

• Expert user of Microsoft Office, applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Sharepoint.

This job is a good fit for you if:
 

• You have gained experience within an international professional services industry, law firm or in-house legal department.
• You display sound thoughtful judgement.

About ERM
 

ERM is the world’s largest global pure-play sustainability consultancy, with more than 50 years of market leadership. ERM uses its unique combination of technical depth and commercial acumen to partner with the world’s leading organizations, creating innovative solutions to sustainability challenges, and unlocking commercial opportunities that meet the needs of today while preserving opportunity for future generations.

With over 8,500 employees worldwide operating from 170+ offices in 40 countries, ERM is unmatched in its ability to operationalize sustainability across the business lifecycle and at all levels of an organization, which we call our boots to boardroom approach. Backed by KKR, one of the largest private market investors, and informed by deep sector and technical expertise, ERM deploys proven, integrated approaches that meet our clients’ most pressing sustainability needs and address day-to-day EHS and ESG imperatives.