Sr Administrative Assistant (Enablement, Strategy)

About the Role:

Working as part of the T. Rowe Price CFO Group, the incumbent will provide administrative support within the Business Enablement and Corporate Strategy & Development teams.   

In addition to supporting the Heads of Business Enablement and Corporate Strategy & Development, this position will offer support to the broader CFO group teams as needed and will be expected to back up other Administrative professionals for absences and peaks / troughs in workload across the business.

The position requires a positive, tactful demeanor, a professional presence and strong written and oral communication skills.  The position will need to effectively manage upwardly to members of senior management while fostering successful relationships through direct interaction with peers and others.  The individual will partner with management to build a collaborative working environment while promoting leadership, exercising good judgement and professionalism.

The successful candidate will also be highly proactive, adept at time management, multitasking and negotiating priorities effectively and calmly during stringent deadlines.  Supporting leaders globally and strong skills supporting expense and travel management are required. 

Role Summary:

Typically provides direct assistance to one or more senior leaders and/or senior individual contributors. Responsible for exercising confidentiality, tact, and diplomacy when completing own work. May direct the work of less experienced support staff and assign tasks. Provides thoughtful and tactful support to managers when new processes and policies are implemented. Effectively works with others to ensure and provide seamless support and coverage when necessary.

Responsibilities:

• Performs moderately complex and confidential administrative duties that require considerable skill and knowledge of organization policies and procedures. Screens calls and visitors and resolves routine and sometimes complex inquiries. Schedules and maintains calendar of appointments, meetings, and travel arrangements. Exercises moderate level of autonomy in troubleshooting issues as they arise and anticipates the needs of the person they support. Work is generally fast-paced and moderately complex.
• Conducts moderately complex administrative assignments related to meeting, seminar, workshop, and/or conference planning, including material production; prep material packet compilation; scheduling; logistical arrangements; and liaising with participants, speakers, and vendors. Assists with special projects across multiple teams, including workstream participation.
• May conduct research for senior leader(s) or senior individual contributor; compiles, analyzes, and summarizes information for reports and correspondence. Compiles, reviews, and analyzes more complex data and keeps databases and share sites up to date. Provides accurate data and information to others on functional unit processes and procedures as requested.
• Coordinates executive meetings, including logistics (reserving meeting site, catering, security notifications), collection and coordination of meeting materials, agenda creation, and recording meeting minutes for senior leaders and/or senior individual contributors and tracks/manages meeting attendance responses.
• May assist in the preparation correspondences, memoranda, and reports, copying and filing and processing documentation of expenses and vouchers. May prepare and distribute minutes of meetings.

Typical Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or the equivalent combination of education and relevant experience AND
• 3+ years of total relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree with relevant experience
• Strong team player and ability to make decisions on behalf of the team plus take collective responsibility
• Ability to work and communicate effectively within a global/virtual team setting
• Enthusiastic with strong customer service, communication and interpersonal skills
• Willingly adapts to and is motivated by change
• Financial Services sector experience
• Experience with Concur & online travel booking tools
• Proficiency with Zoom, WebEx and Microsoft Teams

FINRA Requirements:  FINRA licenses are not required and will not be supported for this role.

Work Flexibility: This role is eligible for remote work up to two days a week.

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