Date live:28/08/2025
Business Area:Acquiring & Gateway
Area of Expertise:Business Support & Administration
Contract:Permanent
Reference Code:JR-0000069371
Join us as an Executive Assistant supporting 1–3 executives. You will play a key role in a fast-paced, high-growth, transformative environment, working closely with bankers, financial sponsors, and internal teams across Barclays. The role involves managing travel, busy calendars, and high volumes of correspondence, as well as organising internal and external events and workshops. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in diary management, travel coordination, and event planning, thriving in a dynamic, fast-changing environment.

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

• Management of senior executive members calendars and overseeing their timely responses to meeting invitations and requests.
• Planning and arranging travel itineraries, including flights, accommodation, and ground transportation, ensuring timely and efficient travel for the executive.
• Proactively anticipating the needs of the senior executive, prioritising tasks, and ensuring timely completion.
• Management of day-to-day administrative tasks, such as expenses, maintaining filing systems, ordering office supplies, managing annual leave records, distribution lists, and other organisational tasks.
• Management and facilitation of senior executive members meetings.
• Highly self-motivated, able to prioritise effectively, and work autonomously.

Desirable Skills/Preferred Qualifications:

• A proactive and dynamic personality with the ability to work collaboratively with a diverse range of stakeholders.

This role is based in London.
You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills
Barclays has announced a long-term partnership with Brookfield Asset Management to grow and transform its payments acceptance business, with a view to creating a standalone entity over time.
The payments acceptance business provides critical infrastructure to the UK economy, processing billions of pounds of payments annually for small businesses, and domestic and international corporate clients. The partnership will drive business growth by broadening the range of services offered, enhancing the experience for both existing and prospective clients.
Barclays will invest approximately £400m in the business, the majority of which will be incurred during the first three years. Brookfield will provide expertise to support this transformation, with performance-linked incentives driving alignment between the partners and reflecting the long-term commitment to the transformation.
For more information, please visit Barclays.com

ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Management of senior executive members calendars and overseeing their timely responses to meeting invitations and requests.
• Planning and arranging travel itineraries, including flights, accommodation, and ground transportation, ensuring timely and efficient travel for the executive.
• Proactively anticipating the needs of the senior executive, prioritising tasks, and ensuring timely completion.
• Management of day-to-day administrative tasks, such as expenses, maintaining filing systems, and ordering office supplies, annual leave records management, distribution list management and organisation management tasks.
• Management and facilitation of senior executive members meetings.

To manage the executive’s schedule, handling correspondence, preparing presentations and reports, and providing other administrative support as needed.