Executive Assistant

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Title and Summary

Executive Assistant

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.
Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.
We are looking for an experienced Executive Assistant to support 2 Senior Vice Presidents as well as some senior team members with administrative duties and processes. The individual in this role will not only be a member of the team, but will coordinate operations within the teams and will become a member of the Executive Assistant community at Mastercard.
Role
• Manage a busy calendar by coordinating and scheduling meetings
• Schedule and manage travel arrangements for domestic and international trips and prepare expense reports following those trips
• Coordinate team meetings, organisation, agenda preparation, room logistics and pre-read distribution. Take meeting actions and distribute as appropriate
• Support other day-to-day department operations as required such as screening emails, following up on items, maintaining department records
• Prepare correspondence, memoranda, reports, presentations as required- editing, proof reading, printing
• Raise purchase orders and manage the payment of invoices
• Provide cover for colleagues and provide general support where needed
• Ad hoc duties as required.
All About You
• Strong computer skills, including the ability to manage and understand numerous internal software systems
• Solid Administrative experience in a corporate environment interfacing with senior and executive level management and customers
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work collaboratively within a team setting
• Keen sense of urgency with a results-driven orientation
• Ability to prioritise and discern what is truly important
• Accuracy and attention to detail with the ability to multi-task.
• Ability to function well in a busy and varied environment and work well under pressure.
Corporate Security Responsibility
Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position must:
• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;

• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;

• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and

• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.