Job Summary

This role presents a compelling opportunity for an experienced Executive Assistant to join the Transaction Banking Team. Reporting to the Regional Head of Transaction Banking Corporate Sales, HK & GCNA, the successful candidate will play a pivotal role in ensuring seamless operational support across key leadership positions and their wider teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide full secretarial and administrative support to a team of senior bankers
  • Manage travel itineraries including meeting schedules, accommodation and transportation arrangements
  • Consolidate travel and entertainment expense reports, claims and reimbursement
• Support the team in all aspects of business and administration in alignment with Group and Country strategies
• Ensure the smooth running of the office and delivery of a quality service to the benefit of the Bank and customers, both internal and external
• Coordinate management meetings, business events, video conferences and conference calls
• Organize and coordinate logistics for team, client and leadership events both onsite and offsite, encompassing budgeting, vendor management and stakeholder communications
• Ensure reliable support is provided to the team in communicating with regional and global offices and counterparts
• Prepare reports and business presentations in a timely and accurate manner
• Handle specific projects and tasks as designated by the team
• Handle private & confidential documents and correspondences, for the Bank as well as external clients
• Responsible for servicing clients and partners by responding to inquiries or referring the inquiry to the appropriate area for resolution
• Manage the budget process for department and/or team, track all expenditure and ensure budgetary constraints and adhered to

Qualifications

• Excellent analytical and organizational skills are required to research and resolve inquiries, and to manage conflicting priorities and workflow
• Demonstrate professionalism and able to handle sensitive matters tactfully
• Able and willing to work under tight schedule and deliver requirements in a timely manner
• Attention to detail ensuring accuracy and thoroughness in all work completed
• Team player with excellent interpersonal skills to deal with all levels
• Self-motivated and ability to work independently
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Experience in Business Writting
• Familiar with banking terminology

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.