Executive Assistant, Sydney
About the Role
In this position, you’ll be responsible for providing administrative support for our Senior Managing Directors and/or Managing Directors of our new Consulting Health team within the Corporate Finance & Restructuring segment.
In this newly created role, you will have the opportunity to help shape and grow our business. As an Executive Assistant, you will perform all administrative functions and will need the ability to successfully balance assignments and various tasks from multiple stakeholders. You will be responsible for routine and non-routine tasks and will need independent judgment to plan, prioritise and organise workload. You may also interact with clients and other leaders and will need to maintain absolute discretion and confidentiality, as would be expected of a professional in this role.
What You’ll Do
- Primarily, administrative support to 3-5 Senior Managing Directors and assisting other team members with administrative requests
- General administration, including travel bookings, coordinating meetings and calls and maintaining calendars
- Initiate conflict clearance and approval processes for new matters
- Manage new client and vendor set-up, contact lists and liaison with third-party service providers as required
- Compose and edit correspondence, emails, reports and presentations
- Manage in-house, external and client events
- Financial administration, including time and expense recording, credit card reconciliations, assisting with the collection of billing information, invoice creation and debt collection
- Create documents, reports, spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations and assist in research projects
- Assist with ad hoc tasks (e.g. oversight of office stationery, general office support, office supplies and print materials, onboarding new team members)
How You’ll Grow
This is an excellent opportunity for an individual to partner high-level Executives, build their own network, guide and encourage peers, and further develop their professional skills.
Qualifications & Experience
- 6 - 8 years’ experience supporting senior management
- Experience in health care and/or with public sector clients - desirable but not essential
- Proactive, efficient and approachable
- Some experience in event planning and management
- High attention to detail
- Experience supporting multiple personnel, including senior executives
- Ability to work to deadlines
- Excellent communication, verbal and written skills
- Advanced level of Microsoft Office proficiency required
- High level of computer literacy
Our Benefits
Apart from the well-structured career path and excellent team environment, our employees enjoy a variety of perks and benefits. Our benefits include, but are not limited to:
- Attractive remuneration, including discretionary bonuses available to all employees
- 18 weeks paid, gender-neutral parental leave with full superannuation contributions throughout paid and unpaid leave
- Flexible working arrangements
- Financial support to obtain work-related professional qualification
- Professional membership contributions and generous paid study leave (up to 12 days)
- Corporate discount available for health insurance, including dependent(s)
- Employee Assistance Program ("EA") – free to all employees and their immediate families
- Make an impact in our communities through company sponsored pro bono work
- Special leave - 2 days per year of a cultural or religious holiday that is not treated as a public holiday in Australia
- FTI Work Perks: our discount program that provides a wide range of corporate offers, savings, and wellbeing resources
- Monthly Health & Wellbeing program including fitness subsidies
- Annual paid volunteer hours
- Corporate matching for charitable donations
- Opportunity to join our Reconciliation Action Plan - working group; 'FTI's Women's Initiative Network (FTI WIN); Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging and Corporate Citizenship committees
About FTI Consulting
FTI Consulting is a global business advisory firm dedicated to helping clients with their most significant opportunities and challenges. With more than 8,000 employees located in 33 countries and territories, our broad and diverse bench of award–winning experts advise their clients when they are facing their most significant opportunities and challenges. At FTI Consulting, we embrace, cultivate and maintain a culture of diversity, inclusion & belonging, which are fundamental components to our core values.
FTI Consulting is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange and has been recognized as one of the World’s Best Management Consulting Firms by Forbes. For more information, visit www.fticonsulting.com and connect with us on Instagram and LinkedIn.
FTI Consulting is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, protected veteran status, religion, physical or mental disability, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.
Compensation Disclosure: The compensation range reflects potential base salary for the role and is inclusive of Superannuation. Determination of actual salary is based on a combination of relevant factors such as market considerations, business needs, and an individual’s location, skills, level of experience and qualifications.
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