The Executive Assistant provides comprehensive administrative support to the Legal and Compliance teams, including meeting coordination, travel arrangements, expense processing, and general administration.
Over the last 20 years, Ares’ success has been driven by our people and our culture. Today, our team is guided by our core values – Collaborative, Responsible, Entrepreneurial, Self-Aware, Trustworthy – and our purpose to be a catalyst for shared prosperity and a better future. Through our recruitment, career development and employee-focused programming, we are committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive work environment where high-performance talent of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives can build careers within this exciting and growing industry.
Job Description
Summary:
The Executive Assistant will be responsible for providing administrative assistance for professionals within the Legal and Compliance teams within the Ares London Office. The person in this role must be a self-starter, take initiative and demonstrate excellent follow-up skills.
The candidate will be responsible for providing seamless, professional support to enable the smooth running of the teams and the business.
Primary Functions and Essential Responsibilities:
Meeting management
- Extensive coordination and scheduling of internal / external meetings and conference calls, video conference meetings for the teams both internally / externally with clients and Ares global offices.
- Liaising with other Executive Administrators globally when necessary.
- Coordination of Domestic and International travel arrangements including flight / hotel bookings, trains and ground transportation; arranging Visa’s where necessary and creating detailed travel itineraries.
- Minimal editing of PowerPoint documents and general correspondence (internal and external)
- Printing and binding marketing presentations.
General Administration
- Timely collection and processing of team expenses for both cash and American Express using the company expense system.
- Coordinating deal signings both Wet Ink and DocuSign. Printing signature pages for Wet Ink and collecting signatures from relevant Ares Signatories.
- Supporting the other Executive Assistants where necessary.
- Phone coverage for the team and taking detailed messages.
- Onboarding for new starters in the team.
Education & Background:
- Bachelor’s Degree a plus but not essential
- Minimum 3-5 years of experience as an Executive / Administrative Assistant supporting a team in a professional, fast paced environment.
Experience / Skills Required:
- Strong attention to detail and highly organised.
- High degree of confidentiality
- Strong client service orientation.
- Effective prioritisation of multiple professionals.
- Experience in travel coordination; domestic & international.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to represent the team in a positive way through interactions with other internal teams, as well as external clients, investors, and partners.
- Technical proficiency is mandatory; programs used include, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook.
- Prior experience working with DocuSign and Intralinks is a plus.
- Experience in financial services a plus.
- Good judgment as to when to escalate issues vs. solving problems independently.
- Working in a team of professional Executive Assistants to support and cover the business requirements where necessary.
Reporting Relationships
There is no set deadline to apply for this job opportunity. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the search is no longer active.
Top Skills
Docusign
Excel
Intralinks
Ms Word
Outlook
PowerPoint
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