Personal Assistant

Job ID: 27851

Location: Riyadh, SA

Area of interest: Corporate & Commercial Banking

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 1 May 2025

**Key Responsibilities**

**Strategy**
- Assist the CEO with execution of country and business strategy.
- Support development and execution of the business/function priorities, ensuring there aligned to Global strategies and regional priorities.
- Provide the CEO and team with support on planning and monitoring of progress on local driven projects, risks and issues, providing quality control, agreeing timescales and resources required.
- Manage and handle confidential correspondence both internal and external.
- Support delivery of Specific Projects & Priorities (e.g., D&I Strategy, Strategic Workforce Planning, My Voice Engagement follow through communication strategy, internal communication agenda, Conduct Champion, etc.)
- Administering the office of the CEO, coordinating the daily work, and working commitments.
- To independently handle routine administration and correspondence.
- Arrange meetings according to priorities of the business.
- Make all travel/visa/accommodation arrangements for CEO.
- Prepare and attend all Country Management Team /Country Leadership Team and On-Boarding committee meetings, prepare and finalise minutes of meetings
- Attend all Committee meetings, review and finalise minutes of meetings

**Business**
- Support the CCIB Businesses as and when required.
- Assist the CEO in driving the business agenda and bring alignment across the business and functions by working with the department heads.
- Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

**Job Summary**

**Processes**
- Ensure and efficient filing and records management for the CEO office
- Ensure meeting deadlines and that all global policies are adhered to
- Review and manage the e-procurement requests on behalf of the CEO and challenge departments to ensure adherence to supply chain policies.
- On behalf of CEO, review the Travel & expenses requests submitted for approval and ensure they are aligned with Travel & expenses guidelines.
- Support the deployment of Group people policies, products and processes to drive engagement thereby driving business performance.

**People & Talent**
- Coordinate continuous feedback session with all business / function heads Assist and official performance review sessions.
- Ensure that all direct / matrix reports of the CEO hold an up-to-date Job Descriptions.
- Ensure the provision of ongoing training and development of people
- Assist CEO to review team structure and succession plans.

**Risk Management**
- Oversee activities including Audits
- ensuring satisfactory closure of audit and operational risk points.

**Governance**
- Comply with the Group Code of Conduct
- Comply with Group’s policies and procedures
- Support the CEO in reporting to the Cluster/Regional CEO office on progress.
- Assist the CEO to drive improvement of governance environment including close monitoring of regulatory projects.

**Regulatory & Business Conduct**
- Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
- Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
- Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

**Key stakeholders**
- Chief Executive Officer
- Country Management Team
- Regional Management Team

**Other Responsibilities**
- Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in Saudi Arabia. Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures.

**Skills and Experience**
- Communication and interpersonal skills
- Article writing and excel skills
- Organisation and Time Management skills
- Multitask and priorities tasks
- Computer literacy

**Qualifications**
- EDUCATION Advanced degree from top university - business, engineering, sciences, law.
- LANGUAGES English, Arabic

**About Standard Chartered**
- We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.- Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by