Executive Assistant - Legal

Join us as an Executive Assistant - Legal, where you will provide critical support to senior leaders across our Legal and Compliance teams. This role is central to ensuring the smooth coordination of calendars, travel, meetings, and day-to-day operations. We are seeking a highly organized and proactive professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys building strong partnerships. If you take pride in delivering exceptional support and managing competing priorities, we’d love to hear from you. Qualifications Experience supporting leaders or teams in an administrative role Comfortable managing calendars, travel, and expenses Familiar with tools like Coupa, Copilot and PowerPoint Other Highly Valued Skills Clear and professional communication skills Organized and able to handle multiple tasks at once Works well with others and handles confidential information carefully This role is located in Wilmington, DE. Purpose of the role To manage the executive's schedule, handling correspondence, preparing presentations and reports, and providing other administrative support as needed. Accountabilities Management of senior executive members calendars and overseeing their timely responses to meeting invitations and requests. Planning and arranging travel itineraries, including flights, accommodation, and ground transportation, ensuring timely and efficient travel for the executive. Proactively anticipating the needs of the senior executive, prioritising tasks, and ensuring timely completion. Management of day-to-day administrative tasks, such as expenses, maintaining filing systems, and ordering office supplies, annual leave records management, distribution list management and organisation management tasks. Management and facilitation of senior executive members meetings. Analyst Expectations To perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard consistently driving continuous improvement. Requires in-depth technical knowledge and experience in their assigned area of expertise Thorough understanding of the underlying principles and concepts within the area of expertise They lead and supervise a team, guiding and supporting professional development, allocating work requirements and coordinating team resources. If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others. OR for an individual contributor, they develop technical expertise in work area, acting as an advisor where appropriate. Will have an impact on the work of related teams within the area. Partner with other functions and business areas. Takes responsibility for end results of a team’s operational processing and activities. Escalate breaches of policies / procedure appropriately. Take responsibility for embedding new policies/ procedures adopted due to risk mitigation. Advise and influence decision making within own area of expertise. Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you own or contribute to. Deliver your work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulation and codes of conduct. Maintain and continually build an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with function, alongside knowledge of the organisations products, services and processes within the function. Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function. Make evaluative judgements based on the analysis of factual information, paying attention to detail. Resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience and will be guided by precedents. Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex / sensitive information. Act as contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function, while building a network of contacts outside team and external to the organisation. All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave. #J-18808-Ljbffr