Job Summary

We are looking for a dedicated Team Assistant with a disciplined professional approach and excellent stakeholder management skills to join our Corporate and Investment (CIB) Client Coverage team in Paris. In this versatile role, you will be responsible for comprehensive administrative and organizational/ business support to the our Client Coverage (CC) teams, with a specific focus on the teams in charge of International Corporates clients. 

Key Responsibilities

Team Assistant duties will include:
•    Personal Assistant support to Client Coverage (CC) senior managers including diary and travel management, taxi booking, handling telephone calls, liaising with customers to set up appointments, management of contacts folder and mailing list, preparation and submission of Travel & Expenses claims, general correspondence (letters, memos, e-mails etc.), maintenance of files and archives, raising of RMS 
•    Diary management for the wider CC team, via Outlook to include external and internal meetings, involving coordination and liaison with customers and staff 
•    Organizing travel itineraries for team members, including meeting coordination, booking flights and airport transfer, booking of hotel rooms and other facilities, handling visas applications and invitation letters 
•    Arranging both in-house and external meetings for customers 
•    Managing CC team's contacts folders and mailing lists 
•    Providing support to CC team in relation to network roadshows and dedicated client events
•    Providing support to Europe Communication team in relation to client events held in Paris
•    Beyond the CC teams, providing support any internal and client events lead at or by the Paris branch

Other administrative duties will include:
•    Vendor management support
•    Managing payment of invoices, cross-border recharges, and corporate credit cards attribution
•    Maintaining staff absence tracker and managing staff access requests to the office
•    Collaboration on office management tasks in close cooperation with local office manager and external providers
•    Participating in ad hoc projects and initiatives
•    Acting as backup to CEO's Personal Assistant and to the Office Manager in their absence

Skills and Experience

•    Experience in the administrative area or in Team Assistant/ Administrative Assistant role of a comparable seniority, ideally in the financial institution
•    Excellent communication, organizational and planning skills
•    Friendly and professional demeanour as well as a service-oriented way of working
•    Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple tasks simultaneously
•    Ability to work in a team and collaborate effectively with different stakeholders
•    Proactiveness and ability to work autonomously on own initiative
•    Ability to prioritize and challenge where necessary
•    Discretion and trustworthiness in dealing with confidential information

Qualifications

•    University degree or comparable qualification
•    Confident handling of MS Office applications
•    Fluency in written and spoken English and French

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.