Senior Executive Assistant

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Company Description

McDonald's is the largest family restaurant in the world, serving approximately 69 million customers across 36,000 restaurants a day: in more than 100 countries. The UK & Ireland market is one of the most successful entities across the wider business, serving on average 4 million people a day. It has operated in UK since 1974 and the business is growing continuously with more than 1,400 restaurants and over 154,000 employees.

McDonald's UK & Ireland has a proven track record of investing in the development of its employees and offering flexibility as part of its dedication to being a modern and progressive company. Every year, it invests over £40 million in developing people, giving every one of its employees the opportunity to take part in structured training.

McDonald's buys ingredients from over 17,500 British and Irish farmers and spends over £1.1billion annually on its food and packaging requirements. McDonald's is committed to supporting British and Irish farmers to ensure it can continue to source many of its ingredients from the UK and Ireland.

McDonald's is a market leader in its field, striving for the highest standard of quality, speed and restaurant experience. Re-generation of our restaurant infrastructure, covering digital ordering, re-imaging and dual-point service make working at McDonald's more exciting than ever!

We are dedicated to using our scale for good: good for people, our industry and the planet. From bold recycling initiatives and sustainable sourcing efforts to our partnership with Ronald McDonald House Charities, we see every day as a chance to have a genuine impact on our customers, our people and our partners.

We're a people business just as much as we are a restaurant business. We strive to be the most inclusive brand in the world by building diverse teams who create delicious, feel-good moments that are easy for everyone to enjoy. Joining McDonald's means thinking big every day and preparing for a career that can have impact around the world.

Company Vision and Culture...

Our Global vision is to build a better McDonald's and, in the UK, and Ireland we are working hard to be the UK & Irelands best-loved restaurant company.

McDonald's is defined by its culture. Our culture shapes and informs everything we think and everything we do. Our culture influences the way we interact with each other, and how we interact with customers, franchisees and suppliers. Our culture motivates and inspires us to attract and retain great talent, creating positive, energising, exceptional working environment for us all.

Our values drive our culture and shape our beliefs, our priorities and our actions. They influence the decisions we make, how we treat one another and how we show up as a brand to the world.

Serve: We put our customers and our people first

Inclusion: We open our doors to everyone

Integrity: We do the right thing

Community: We are good neighbours

Family: We get better together

Job Description

The Opportunity

We are looking for a Senior Executive Assistant to provide secretarial and administrative support to the Chief Finance Officer, Business Strategy and Insight Director and Finance Director.

What will my accountabilities be?

As Senior Executive Assistant, you will be responsible for:

• The planning and organisation of onsite and offsite meetings for Executives including; venue/room search and booking, issuing invitations and tracking acceptances and budget control
• Full diary management and organising all travel arrangements
• Screening telephone calls, emails and post. There will be handling of ad hoc issues without referral
• Responsibility for handling key project business meetings within UK
• You are the first point of contact and central information point for the department and executive office and provide support to executives for efficiency
• You will provide general correspondence, reports, minute talking, invoice management, preparing PowerPoint presentations, prepare board room for meetings, and maintain office software and filing
• Establishing relationships with international offices
• Building a strong and collaborative relationship with other assistant's across the company

What Team will I be a part?

Finance and Business Strategy and Insight

Who are my customers?

• You will have key internal and external relationships
• Executive team
• Senior Management
• Executive Assistants
• Departments Heads
• All UK & Ireland colleagues
• Non-executive directors
• Suppliers

Qualifications

What background do I need to have?

• You will need to have a significant amount of experience in a Senior Executive Assistant role.
• Desirable - board level experience
• Due to the nature of the role, you will demonstrate high discretion due to the confidential and commercially sensitive data you will handle.
• You will need to be detail oriented, curious and resilient.
• Good communications skills, both written and verbal with customers, team and partners.
• A self-starter who enjoys taking ownership of ad hoc tasks/projects for the CMO and Digital Director.
• Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively.
• Proactively manage conflicting demands with the ability to prioritise tasks.
• You will be dedicated, organised and collaborative with the ability to achieve results. through people and meet tight deadlines.
• Proactive with the ability to make decisions
• Advanced MS Office skills and overall IT capabilities.
• Ability to be in the East Finchley office a minimum of 3 days a week

Additional Information

At McDonald's we are People from all Walks of Life...

People are at the heart of everything we do, and they make the McDonald's experience. We embrace diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture that means people can be their best authentic self in our restaurants and offices, which helps us to better serve our customers. We have a strong heritage of diversity and representation within our communities, which we are proud of. The diversity of our people, customers, Franchisees and suppliers gives us strength.

We do not tolerate inequality, injustice or discrimination of any kind. These are hugely important issues and a brand with our reach and relevance means we have a very meaningful role to play.

We also recognise our responsibility as a large employer to continue being active in our communities, helping to develop skills and drive aspirations that will help people to be more aware of the world of work and more successful within it, whether with McDonald's or elsewhere."

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