Job Description

Personal Assistant
Radbroke

As a Barclays Personal Assistant, will be responsible for providing professional and efficient EA/PA support to the MD/Ds within the Chief Technology Office. You will work closely with a number of senior executives and their support offices. You will take an active interest in understanding the environment they work in, building an understanding of the business and function\xe2\x80\x99s processes and objectives so the MDs/Ds they support can rely on their judgment to understand relative priorities.

Barclays is one of the world\'s largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity \xe2\x80\x93 helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive, and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

Working Flexibly
We\xe2\x80\x99re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognizes and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers\xe2\x80\x99 and clients\xe2\x80\x99 needs. Whether you have family commitments or you\xe2\x80\x99re a career, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life. If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager, and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs.

We are currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. We\xe2\x80\x99re flexible on how this works and it may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could be over a week, a month or a quarter. However, some colleagues may choose to spend more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. We also have a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally are able to request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

What will you be doing?

• Managing diaries
• Organising a wide range of meetings / meeting rooms (internal / external)
• Acting as the main reference point both in presence and absence of managers
• Welcoming and supporting customers on visits, providing hospitality as required
• Organizing travel arrangements and itineraries
• Collating and circulating meeting agendas/papers
• Dealing with general correspondence as appropriate
• Processing expense reports, facilitating invoicing through the Coupa system

What we\xe2\x80\x99re looking for

• Previous experience as a EA/PA supporting MDs/Ds
• Knowledge / skill / competency in tools such as Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel)

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Prior experience working within a fast paced and demanding environment (Financial Services Industry)
• Familiar using MS Teams, Coupa and Concur systems

Where will you be working?
You will be based in Radbroke, Knutsford. The Barclays Technology Campus just outside Manchester is our tech command centre and a vital strategic powerhouse behind our global operations. The campus is set in a 64-acre self-contained site, in a beautiful green environment and it offers unrivalled facilities for work and for play. We have an onsite gym, as well as outdoor tennis, football and cricket areas, as well as onsite restaurant and coffee shops.

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