Administrative Assistant

Leadership Administrative Assistant 

Location: New York NY 10282

Duration: 12 months

Pay rate: $35/hr W2 

Job Summary

Our Administrative Assistants provide high-quality, proactive administrative support within a fast-paced, team-oriented environment. This role partners closely with business leaders, firm executives and assistant colleagues to ensure seamless calendar management, meeting coordination, travel logistics, and day-to-day operational support, while exercising sound judgment, discretion, and professionalism at all times. Coverage needs may evolve based on business priorities and location.

 

Key Responsibilities:

Administrative & Business Support

• Serve as a trusted administrative partner, supporting multiple executives and their teams as needed
• Provide day-to-day administrative and operational assistance, including documentation, records management such as filing and scanning, time entry, invoices, and ad hoc projects.

Calendar, Meetings & Communications

• Proactively manage dynamic & complex calendars across multiple time zones, prioritizing meeting requests and coordinating internal and external meetings, conference calls, and video conferences.
• Act as a primary point of contact for scheduling communications, including high volumes of phone calls, ensuring timely, accurate messaging and professional interaction with senior leaders and clients.
• Coordinate meetings onsite as well as externally, working with conference services to secure rooms, arranging catering, registering guests, and ensuring materials are prepared.

Travel & Expenses

• Arrange domestic and international travel, including flights, accommodations, ground transportation, and visa procurement as required.
• Prepare and submit expense reports and process related invoices in a timely and accurate manner, utilizing approved expense platforms.

Compliance & Confidentiality

• Handle highly confidential and sensitive client and business information with discretion and sound judgment.
• Adhere to compliance requirements and obtain necessary approvals in accordance with firm policies.

Skills & Qualifications Required:

• Demonstrated experience providing administrative support to executives or senior professionals in a complex environment, preferably within financial services, the private sector, or government.
• Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across local and global teams.
• Proven ability to remain calm, organized, and responsive while managing competing priorities in a fast-paced, high-volume environment.
• Exceptional attention to detail, organizational skills, and follow-through, with strong anticipation and problem-solving capabilities.
• High degree of professionalism, integrity, and diplomacy.
• Proactive, reliable, and adaptable team player with a positive attitude and willingness to support where needed.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Zoom.
• Familiarity with expense platforms such as SAP Concur.