Executive Assistant

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

This position will support several executives within Visa’s Value Added Services Risk and Identity Solutions, managing a fast paced, dynamic environment, handling details of a highly confidential and critical nature. This role requires a broad working knowledge of departmental and company policies and practices as well as disciplined execution.

Essential Functions:

• Proactive Calendar Management:  Lead and manage executive calendars, including scheduling and setting up meetings, making logistical arrangements, and proactively managing conflicts based on understanding of priorities.

• Meeting, Travel and Events Planning: Arrange complex, international executive travel and full travel itineraries, executive/team meetings, and events.

• Liaison: Communicate, problem solve and be a point of contact for a broad range of internal and external professionals on behalf of the Executive.

• Partner: Effectively and professionally collaborate with Leadership, Executive Assistants and employees at all levels to ensure an efficient and effective working environment.

• Expense Management: Submit accurate expense reports on behalf of the executive and review and approve expenses for key team members.

• Be highly proactive (day ahead, week ahead, month ahead, quarter ahead), take ownership to anticipate needs and ensure a smoothly functioning office.

• Be adept at managing-up and downstream to ensure deliverables are met timely and accurately

• Understand the organization and how to “get things done with a smile” by leveraging a combination of your professional network and formal channels

• Apply consistent judgment to organize and prioritize across a complex global organization

• Manage high volume of email and other communications and synthesize actions needed to act quickly, seamlessly and professionally

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications
• Minimum of 6 months of work experience as an Executive Assistant or a Bachelor's Degree

Preferred Qualifications
• 2+ years of Administrative Assistant work experience
• Highest moral and ethical character
• 5+ years of administrative experience supporting a senior leader, preferably in a global, public company
• A positive, upbeat personality and excellent interpersonal communication skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and ability to communicate effectively with all levels
• Flexibility and a positive professional/approach and demeanor
• Discretion combined with poise and professionalism in all communications
• Experience working with highly confidential information and ability to exercise judgement regarding information that may be confidential or material, non-public
• Highly advanced MS Office skills and technologically savvy (Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and MS Teams)
• Strong presentation and slide development skills (PPT)
• Ability and openness to actively use different internal systems (e.g. Ariba, Concur, iProcurement, etc) and technology – to complete tasks
• Ability to connect dots to “see the big picture”
• An understanding of how to leverage a busy executive's time and willingness to do what it takes to contribute to their success and the success of the company
• The ability to operate effectively and efficiently in a challenging, fast-paced environment with little supervision
• Demonstrated strength in prioritizing work
• Exceptional attention to detail.
• Customer service-focused with ability to work collaboratively with others including
interacting with internal and external contacts.
• Proactive and solution oriented, looking for ways to add value and assist the team

Additional Information

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  T