Role Overview:
To provide high level administrative and secretarial support to the General Counsel and the wider Legal team.
Role Responsibilities:
- Extensive diary management and arranging meetings
- Gatekeeper and first point of contact for a range of external and internal contacts
- Inbox cover for the General Counsel: review, raise issues and follow through as necessary
- Work with the EA and PA team members within the group and other parts of the business and cover for other PA and EA roles when required
- Manage two PA employees
- Global travel arrangements
- Support key projects
- Process expenses and invoices
- Point of contact for authorisations on access requests and invoicing
- Reporting and analysis
- Ownership of departmental administration
- Oversight of engagement management of legal vendors
Experience Required:
- Extensive experience of working as a Personal Assistant and/or Executive Assistant
- Strong team player with excellent and effective communication skills and a willingness to collaborate
- Excellent organisational skills, proven ability to multi-task and prioritise
- Ability to work under pressure and with conflicting priorities
- Proactive and flexible approach
- Operates with professionalism, and integrity at all times
- Dependable and efficient
- Strong systems skills (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
- Training and/or experience using AI would be useful but is not required
- Prior experience in financial services and/or a Legal environment
Insight is committed to being an inclusive employer and encourages applications from all suitably qualified applicants irrespective of background, circumstances, age, disability, gender identity, ethnicity, religion or belief and sexual orientation. If you are a candidate with a disability, or are assisting a candidate with a disability, and require an accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, please email us at [email protected]
About Insight Investment:
Insight Investment is a leading asset manager focused on designing investment solutions to meet its clients' needs. Founded in 2002, Insight's collaborative approach has delivered both investment performance and growth in assets under management. Insight manages assets across its core liability-driven investment, risk management, full-spectrum fixed income, currency and absolute return capabilities. Insight has a global network of operations in the UK, Ireland, Germany, US, Japan and Australia. More information about Insight Investment can be found at: https://www.insightinvestment.com/uk/nav/careers/
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Insight* is one of Europe’s largest investment managers** responsible for £626.2bn/€757.3bn*** in assets under management (AUM) across fixed income, risk management strategies including liability-driven investment (LDI) and currency risk management, absolute return and multi-asset capabilities. Based in London, Insight is a specialist asset manager with a global network of operations in the UK, Ireland, Germany, US, Japan and Australia. Our clients include pension funds, corporates, local authorities, insurers, sovereign wealth funds, wealth managers, financial institutions and supranationals.
Insight's mission is to offer investors a different approach to achieving their investment goals; one that prioritises the certainty of meeting their chosen objectives in contrast to the traditional focus on maximising return and minimising volatility.
Read our mission statement here: www.insightinvestment.com/uk/introducing-insight/our-mission-statement/
We believe responsible investment means helping our clients achieve their desired outcomes and reflecting their priorities. We aim to identify, assess and manage factors that we deem to be financially material, while also reflecting our clients’ sustainability preferences. We were a founding signatory to the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) in 2006.
For more on Insight’s approach to responsible investment, visit https://www.insightinvestment.com/investing-responsibly
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*Insight is the corporate brand for certain companies operated by Insight Investment Management Limited (IIML).
**IPE, ‘Top 500 Asset Managers’ survey, June 2024. Insight is ranked fifth out of the top 120 European institutional managers by total AUM for external Europe-domiciled institutional clients.
***As at 31 December 2024. AUM are represented by the value of cash securities and other economic exposure managed for clients.
