Executive Assistant to CFO - 12 month FTC

Company Description

We have an excellent opportunity for a trusted Executive Assistant to join our team on a 12-month Fixed Term Contract for maternity cover.

In this crucial role, you'll bring your expertise in communication and relationship-building to support our Chief Financial Officer.

Your ability to manage confidential and sensitive matters with discretion will be key, as you collaborate across all levels of the organisation. This is a fantastic chance to make a meaningful impact while continuing to develop your career in a supportive environment.

So, who are we?

We are Reach Plc, you might not have heard of us but we have probably met without you even realising it.

We are home to the UK and Ireland’s most iconic digital platforms, magazines and newspapers. From the Mirror, Daily Express and OK!, to our regional titles such as the Liverpool Echo, BirminghamLive and the Manchester Evening News (plus lots more), our brands and the stories we cover are as varied as our people. We help all kinds of people share experiences through our stories because we believe this is what makes us human.

Oh, and we should probably also mention that with a monthly readership of 47 million people, Reach is the largest commercial publisher in the UK. At Reach, not only will you feel better understood, you will also feel you understand other people better too. 

Job Description

To provide proactive, effective, and efficient administrative support to the Chief Financial Officer, including but not limited to:

• Be an integral part of the CFO’s Senior Finance team, including attending relevant team meetings
• Advanced, proactive diary management, with a good understanding of competing priorities.
• Preparing the CFO for attendance at meetings including the assembly of documents, papers and Exco and Board submissions as required.
• Complex and high-volume email management, including responding to emails on the CFO’s behalf and escalating important matters to the CFO for urgent attention.
• Meeting management, including arranging meetings, producing, and distributing agendas, action items and follow ups and associated papers as required and to the timeframes required. 
• Ability to follow up without prompting and to stay one step ahead, anticipate requirements and ensure tasks are seen through to completion.
• Setting up and managing video and teleconferencing.
• Creating presentations for meetings, in line with company policies.
• Coordinating appointments, conferences & functions including catering, venue arrangements and other logistics. 
• Interaction with relevant internal key stakeholders on matters.
• Maintaining confidence and discretion in all matters without exception.
• Organising travel including visas, flights, trains and accommodation when required.
• Ad-hoc support for the Senior Finance team during peak periods such as Year End / Half Year Results
• Provide holiday cover to CEO

Qualifications

• Experience of working as an Executive Assistant to an executive board member of a large organisation.
• Proactive, independent, highly motivated self-starter with an eye for detail.
• Strong time-management skills and the ability to organise and coordinate multiple projects at once.
• Flexible team player willing to do what it takes to get the job done; adaptable and enjoys a challenge
• Professional and strictly confidentiality with all materials, and exercise discretion when interfacing with the business at all times.
• Effective operator, well organised, gets things done well and with good pace.
• Has the ability to build relationships across the business.

Additional Information

What can we offer you?

We are offering a salary of up to £50,000 depending on experience and benefits including;

• 25 holiday per year when you join. After three, five and ten years’ service with Reach, you’ll accrue one additional day of annual leave. We also have a Holiday Purchase Scheme
• Giving back day - an additional day’s leave each year to support a cause close to your heart
• Enhanced family leave - including maternity, paternity and adoption - and you’ll be eligible after just six months’ employment
• As one of the UK’s top 50 Inclusive Employers everyone’s invited to join our events, programmes and networks to celebrate diversity and build an environment where all our people can thrive
• Wellbeing support - including a 24/7 assistance programme for you and your nearest and dearest,
• Awesome career opportunities - you’ll have support from your line manager and a range of learning & development programmes
• member of the 30% Club, a global campaign aimed at increasing gender diversity at board and senior management levels
• Help saving for your retirement - join our pension scheme and we’ll match contributions up to 6%

Reach plc believes diversity brings benefits for our customers, our business and our people. This is why we are committed to being an inclusive employer and encourage applications from all suitable applicants irrespective of background, circumstances, age, disability, gender identity, ethnicity, religion or belief and sexual orientation.