Executive Assistant - Fixed Term Contract - Dublin

Executive Assistant

General Information

Location: Dublin

Business Area: CBS

Contract Type: FTC

Opportunity

Due to exceptional growth across all areas of our business, we have several exciting opportunities for Executive Assistants to join the team in EY Ireland.
 
You will be joining a team of Executive Assistants, where your experience in business communication will help you to build effective relationships with our most senior leaders/partners, with a core focus on building strong, diverse, and effective relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.
 
You’ll have autonomy to build these relationships and grow with us as an administrative professional working with like-minded individuals in a solution orientated, collaborative, and diverse environment. This is an opportunity to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture, and technology to become the best version of you.
 

Key Responsibilities

• Act as an ambassador and first point of contact for allocated Partners
• Provide comprehensive diary management, making decisions on your own initiative to resolve conflicts and maximise Partner time
• Proactive travel management to include researching and booking travel, creating detailed itineraries, and assistance with visas
• Facilitate logistical arrangements and attend events as required, proactively ensuring appropriate meeting spaces and catering is available
• Collate and process expenses and invoices ensuring compliance with policy and approval process
• Prepare and submit timesheets
• Engage with Partner teams to understand business needs and priorities
• Provide administrative support to strategic internal projects where required
• Liaise with EA’s within the wider team and the entire EY network

 
Additional responsibilities may require you to
 

• Ensure documentation is prepared in advance of meetings
• Manage communications and monitor Partner email inboxes taking appropriate action, escalating, or delegating accordingly
• Prepare and revise internal / client documents prior to circulation
• Maintain client databases and updating contacts in our CRM system

 
Skills and attributes for success
 

• A proven track record of supporting and working at senior executive level 
• A strong, confident communicator with both excellent written and oral communications skills, with the ability to interact with senior management and clients 
• Ability to build relationships with and work as part of a team, ensuring seamless service to the firm and clients
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Confident in exercising own judgement and make decisions to prioritise, challenge, negotiate and influence
• Ability to balance multiple and competing demands and remain calm under pressure
• A solution-orientated approach to situations and a willingness to learn in a fast-paced, growing environment
• Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel & PowerPoint) and MS Outlook

What we offer 
 
We offer a competitive remuneration package that rewards you for your individual and team performance. As the business grows, we provide opportunities for you to grow too, by helping you develop new skills and progress your career. This includes support, coaching and feedback from your colleagues. But most of all, we believe in giving you the freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you. To help you do that, we also offer:
 

• A hybrid working environment
• Total Rewards: A comprehensive package that covers flexible working and career development 
• FlexEY: Lets you select benefits to suit your needs across holidays, health, well-being and more 
• Annual reimbursement for health-related services such as gym membership 

About EY

As a global leader in Assurance, Tax, Transaction and Advisory Services, we’re using the finance products, expertise, and systems we’ve developed to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities, and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime.

What working at EY offers

We offer a competitive remuneration package. Our comprehensive benefits package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs: covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions.

 Plus, we offer:

• Support and coaching from some of the most engaging colleagues around.
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career.
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you.

All our employees are given a benefits package which they can tailor to suit their individual preferences. Our range of benefits include:

• Hybrid Working
• Pension/Discounted Health Insurance
• Web Doctor
• Purchase of Additional Annual Leave
• Free Gym Membership
• Travel Pass
• Maternity & Paternity Leave
• Bike to Work Scheme
• Referral Bonuses & Recognition Awards
• Tech MBA paid by EY

EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. While our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance.

Career Progression

• When you join EY, you will be supported to ensure that you are enhancing your skills from day one.
• Continuous learning, where you can develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• As you grow and develop here, you’ll discover opportunities to help customise your career journey, so that it’s as unique as you are - success is defined by you, we will provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership, we will give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture, you will be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.
• We have embraced Hybrid working at EY adding greater flexibility and autonomy to the roles of our employees.

Inclusion & Diversity

We hold a collective commitment to foster an environment where all differences are valued and respected, practices are equitable and everyone experiences a sense of belonging: Inclusion, diversity, and equity are part of who we are at EY. We believe that the highest-performing teams maximize the power of different perspectives and backgrounds. These teams are both diverse and inclusive and are willing to invite and learn from other perspectives. Our ability to include various viewpoints into our mindsets, behaviours and operations is fundamental to driving innovation, building strong relationships, and delivering the best solutions for our clients.

We recognise the strength that comes from having a diverse workforce and building a culture where we support all our people to achieve their potential. You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs. As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. Reasonable accommodations are offered at every stage of our recruitment process.

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

Join us in building a better working world. That’s Why, EY.

Apply now.

IMPORTANT: Where Agency assistance is required, our Talent Team will engage directly with suppliers. CVs / Profiles should not be shared directly with Hiring Managers. Unsolicited CVs / Profiles supplied to EY by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this role.