Private Wealth Management - Support Administrative Assistant - Madrid
Goldman Sachs
Administration, Accounting & Finance, Customer Service
Madrid, Spain
Bringing together traditional and alternative investments, we provide clients around the world with a dedicated partnership and focus on long-term performance. As the firm’s primary investment area, we provide investment and advisory services for some of the world’s leading pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, endowments, foundations, financial advisors and individuals, for which we oversee more than $2 trillion in assets under supervision. Working in a culture that values integrity and transparency, you will be part of a diverse team that is passionate about our craft, our clients, and building sustainable success. We are:
- Investors, spanning traditional and alternative markets offering products and services.
- Advisors, understanding our clients’ priorities and poised to help provide investment advice and strategies that make sense for their portfolios.
- Thought Leaders, providing timely insights across macro and secular themes to help inform our clients’ investment decisions.
- Innovators, using our suite of digital solutions to help our clients address complex challenges and meet their financial goals.
- Investors, spanning traditional and alternative markets offering products and services.
- Advisors, understanding our clients’ priorities and poised to help provide investment advice and strategies that make sense for their portfolios.
- Thought Leaders, providing timely insights across macro and secular themes to help inform our clients’ investment decisions.
- Innovators, using our suite of digital solutions to help our clients address complex challenges and meet their financial goals.
The Role
Our Administrative Assistants provide high-quality, proactive administrative support within a fast-paced, team-oriented environment. This role partners closely with business leaders, firm executives and assistant colleagues to ensure seamless calendar management, meeting coordination, travel logistics, and day-to-day operational support, while exercising sound judgment, discretion, and professionalism at all times. Coverage needs may evolve based on business priorities and location.
This is a full-time role for an administrative assistant in Madrid to provide coverage to the Private Wealth Management team.
Job Summary & Responsibilities
- Maintain complex and extremely detailed calendars across multiple time zones, including senior-level internal/external meetings and conference calls; prioritizes client meeting requests and all related client logistics - responds and follows up on requests in a timely manner.
- Coordinate a high volume of travel arrangements, including visa procurement when applicable, and processes expense reports in timely manner.
- Adhering to Compliance regulations and gaining the relevant approvals
- Manages a high volume of phone calls and interacts with high-level business leaders and clients in a professional and effective manner.
- Support general office administrative duties (copying, filing, faxing, archiving, shipping, supplies, etc), ad-hoc projects or facilities management as needed.
- Regularly facilitate knowledge sharing within the team and ensure relevant information is disseminated accordingly.
- Act as an integral member of the team; maintaining a high level of awareness of current priorities and support required.
- Flexibility to support assistant colleagues and cover when necessary.
Qualifications
- Ability to exercise excellent judgment and discretion in dealing with confidential material or handling highly sensitive information.
- Requires excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written & verbal. Ability to display a consistent, professional degree of communication. Comfortable working with people at all levels across the organisation.
- Extreme attention to detail and organizational skills, with ability to prioritize tasks.
- Quick learner and self-starter with excellent anticipation skills.
- Pro-active problem solver and independent thinker; ability to follow up as often as necessary.
- Ability to work well under pressure while maintaining high standards, adapt to unexpected events, prioritize and multi-task in a dynamic but deadline driven environment.
- Highest degree of integrity, professionalism, and diplomacy is required.
- Strong proficiency in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook is required.
- Familiar with expense platforms such as SAP Concur.
- Supportive team player with a positive attitude, enthusiastic about bringing the team together.
- Ideal candidate has at least 3 - 5 years of administrative assistant experience and preferably from a banking or financial services background.
Candidate must be located onsite in the Madrid office as this role is fully onsite.
Benefits
Goldman Sachs is committed to providing our people with valuable and competitive benefits and wellness offerings, as it is a core part of providing a strong overall employee experience. A summary of these offerings, which are generally available to active, non-temporary, full-time and part-time US employees who work at least 20 hours per week, can be found here.
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