Executive Assistant

Job Description

We are Centrica! We’re so much more than an energy company. We’re a family of brands revolutionising a cleaner, greener future. Working here is #MoreThanACareer - we’re powered by purpose. Together we can make an impact that will truly change tomorrow. Whether you’re developing cutting-edge green tech, helping customers on the front line or simplifying operations behind the scenes.

Your work here isn’t just a job – it’s a mission. We all play a vital role in energising a greener, fairer future.

We are looking for an Executive Assistant to provide an effective and efficient support service to the Group Finance Director (plus one other executive), ensuring the smooth running of their respective teams. You will need to have a high level of professional discretion, tact, and integrity due to the frequency of senior internal and external contacts and regular exposure to confidential and commercially sensitive data. You will also be required to demonstrate a high level of initiative and be able to conduct work with minimal guidance.

Location: Windsor, UK with travel as required

Key Responsibilities:

• Extensive diary management for both Directors ensuring effective time management in what is usually a fast-moving environment, working to key timelines in the Corporate Finance calendar, and adapting to changing priorities as required.
• Manage the Directors’ papers and documents to ensure they are fully prepared for all appointments.
• Organise and prepare complex documentation, often requiring the collation of information from a number of different individuals or departments.
• Take notes and compose correspondence to a high standard.
• Ensure that all documents and information within the Directors’ offices are both accessible and secure.
• Take responsibility for the coordination of projects or discreet pieces of work as directed by the Director within agreed guidelines.
• Screen and redirect incoming messages and use own initiative to alert the Directors of issues of high importance as they arise.
• Manage the Directors’ travel, including arranging international and local travel: flights, trains, hotels, and detailed itineraries.
• Provide cover for other EAs as required from time to time to cover periods of holiday or absence.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Significant proven experience of operating in a similar role that requires a high level of commercial understanding within a complex environment.
• Experience in liaising effectively with senior executives internally and externally.
• Experience of working under pressure and to tight deadlines
• High level of confidentiality and initiative.
• Highly organised, able to prioritise and forward plan, and remain calm under pressure.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills (written and spoken) with a pleasant, professional manner.
• Assertive, resilient, and able to manage strong personalities.
• IT skills – Advanced Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Teams, OneNote, and Outlook.
• Flexibility in working hours. A self-motivated individual with the ability to work alone under minimal supervision and direction but also serve as an integral member of the Directors’ Leadership Teams.

At Centrica we embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. To build a more sustainable future, we need the best team – a team with a diverse mix of people and skills, where everyone feels welcome and able to succeed. We are dedicated in helping to close the diversity gap and would love to see more females, people of colour and LGBTQ+ employees, as well as those from a variety of cultures and ethnicity to veterans and the differently abled. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a big part of who we are, we are not looking for people to fit into our culture but to add to it!

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This role is being handled by the Centrica recruitment team and NO agency contact is required.