Executive Assistant

**Working hours**:35 hours per week, Monday to Friday **Duration**:Permanent **Location**:Gloucester **Job ref**:204132 **About the role***: **Ecclesiastical Insurance**, who are proudly part of **Benefact Group** are looking for an **Executive Assistant** to join our** Gloucester**office. In this role you will provide administrative support to Deputy Group Chief Executive and Managing Director for UKGI. **Why join us?**: Join a collaborative and inclusive culture that’s committed to making a difference and building a more sustainable future. Ranked amongst the UK's top 50 Best Large Companies to Work For in 2024, we offer fantastic career and development opportunities within a rapidly growing, innovative Group—where all profits go to charity and good causes. **What you'll be doing**: - **Diary & Travel Management** - Coordinate complex schedules, commitments, and national/international travel for Directors. - **Reporting & Documentation** - Prepare reports, presentations, SOAPs, and documents for leadership and board-level committees. - **Leadership Team Support -** Deliver high-quality secretariat support: manage agendas, materials, minutes, and track actions for UKGI leadership meetings. - **Admin, Finance & HR Support** - Oversee departmental expenses, process expense claims and payments, support event planning, and maintain accurate HR records for the leadership team. **What you'll need to have**: - Proven track record of strong relationship management with senior executives, Non-Executive Directors and key external stakeholders including customers and brokers - Self-starter, able to manage own workload - Appropriate IT skills, including powerpoint, word and excel - Ability to minute technical and wide-ranging topics - High level of personal organisation and accuracy - Strong communication and influencing skills - Ability to maintain confidentiality at all times - Experience in a financial services environment **What makes you stand out**: - Experience in an insurance environment **What we offer***: - A competitive salary - let's discuss it - Hybrid working - Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution - Generous annual bonus scheme between 6% and 24% - 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and a holiday buy and sell scheme - An array of health and wellbeing benefits, including private healthcare, income protection and life assurance - £200 annual personal grant to a charity of your choice - Encouraged to take at least one volunteering day per year - Employee Assistance Programme - Full study support to gain professional qualifications - Access to virtual GP - Enhanced maternity and paternity pay **Hear from the hiring manager**: - "I see this opportunity as part of a partnership in running my role. With full access to my work and the leadership team meetings the role plays a key part of our leadership team effort in the UK, as we grow our business to give more to good causes. Alongside supporting our Deputy Group CEO, who runs all our General Insurance businesses, it’s a diverse, fast-paced, and high-impact position.”_ **About us**: **Ecclesiastical Insurance** offer insurance with award-winning service across a broad range of specialisms, including faith, charity, heritage, education, art and private client, real estate and schemes, across Ireland, Canada and the UK. As a business, we’ve been trusted to protect some of the UK’s best-loved and most iconic buildings for over a century, and we’re not standing still. We’re a forward thinking, energetic organisation entering new markets, with an ambition to double our size, because when we grow, we give back more. **Benefact Group** is a unique international financial services Group made up of over 30 businesses. We are owned by a charity and have been the 3rd largest UK corporate donor over a decade, having given away £250 million since 2014. We have ambitious plans to become the UK’s number one corporate donor, with strategic objectives in place to double the Group’s size. We believe it’s essential to attract, empower, grow and reward talented people, offering fantastic opportunities for career and personal development. Our giving ethos, 135-year history and the diversity of what we do, has enabled us to build a culture of kindness, great ambition, and of passionate people driven to do better and be better. **_If you need any additional support during the recruitment process, then please let us know._** - Directory of Social Change’s UK Guides to Company Giving 2017-26_