Executive Assistant
Action for Children
Watford
Contract
£14 P/H

We are on the lookout for an Executive Assistant to work in Watford within the Childrens Service. The postholder will Provide a comprehensive, confidential, and efficient service to the Chief Finance Officer (CFO) to enable the efficient and effective delivery of all aspects of their brief, and to maintain daily communication to update the CFO and to take charge in coordinating all the deliverables to and from the CFO office within time scales to enable the CFO to concentrate on their wider business critical responsibilities.

Role and Responsibilities:

Provide comprehensive support to the Chief Finance Officer (CFO), managing and overseeing their workload including making certain trade-offs and prioritising decisions on their behalf to ensure their time is spent delivering their objectives.

Act as the primary internal and external point of contact for the CFO, delivering the highest standards of professionalism and discretion amidst an ever-changing and challenging environment.

Manage a complex diary within a dynamic environment, re-prioritisation and shifting of appointments, and retaining time for own work. To apply diplomacy, to manage the expectations of senior internal and external stakeholders, including providing prompts for the CFO with meetings management and manage the communication of delays to audiences waiting to ensure continued effective management of time and credibility.

Proactive management of the CFO’s inbox including using judgement to respond to queries, drafting responses, delegate actions to the wider team and to monitor follow up action. Similarly, to capture key issues and identify points for inclusion in the CFO’s meeting agendas and 121 discussions.

For more information please call Sam on 01616670021 or email