Executive Assistant
We are looking for a proactive Executive Assistant to join our team and support our Managing Partners with their busy international schedules. This role could be based in either London or New York.
About Us
At Fideres we champion fair markets for social justice and individual dignity. Through economic investigations and expert reports, we combat corporate misconduct, ensuring accountability and fostering equitable opportunities for all.
The work of our Competition team has led to major antitrust legal actions against Big Tech (including Apple, Amazon and Facebook), Big Pharma, Big Finance and Big Agriculture. Meanwhile our original and innovative investigations into the river sewage and Covid-19 have led to national press coverage.
Our Financial and Securities Litigation team has acted as plaintiffs' experts in the most consequential financial cartels and market manipulation cases of the past 10 years. We are leaders in our field and we have supported our clients in recovering billions of dollars in settlements for plaintiffs.
About this Role
We are looking for an Executive Assistant to support our Managing Partners with their busy schedules. You will be a hard-working and proactive individual with lots of initiative and energy.
This role will be based in either London or New York. The successful candidate will have experience supporting executive teams across different time zones and will be looking for a unique and exciting new opportunity. Hybrid working can be offered but the flexibility to work over different time zones will be required. We are open to discussing a part-time arrangement for the right candidate.
Key Accountabilities
- Organise travel, manage complex diary schedules, arrange meetings across multiple travel zones etc. and show initiative in all areas
- Prepare itineraries, and proactively manage and communicate to the Managing Partners where they need to be at any given time
- Proactively research hotels, restaurants and other event locations
- Manage corporate gift giving for clients
- Light duties to support other business unit heads on travel and business trip arrangements, along with client meetings
- Meeting and greeting guests and gatekeeping/answering calls
- Coordinate with internal teams and external clients
- Assist in finding suitable locations for client events and annual team events, prepare and send out invitations, collect responses, organise the menu
- Taking accurate and comprehensive notes in meetings, uploading the notes to the company CRM system
- Work with the Operations team on formatting presentations and pitching materials when needed
- Some personal support may be required from time to time
Key Skills and Attributes
The successful candidate will have:
- Ideally will be a 2:1+ university graduate or have a GPA of 3.3+
- Relevant work experience as a Personal or Executive Assistant across different time zones, that includes managing complex travel itineraries
- Very strong interpersonal skills, emotional intelligence and confidentiality
- Has good taste and judgement in determining venue, hotel and business travel choices
- Proven experience in building strong relationships with clients and stakeholders
- Strong organisational skills with excellent attention to detail and multitasking skills
- High levels of initiative, flexibility and adaptability
- Strong PC skills including Microsoft Office, in particular Excel and PowerPoint, as well as organising online files and folders
- Self-motivation and is not afraid to express an opinion and offer new solutions
Work Eligibility Requirements for US Candidates
US applicants must have the right to work for any employer in the US. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of a US employment Visa at this time.
- Department
- Back Office
- Locations
- New York, London
Why Fideres
Fideres’s vision is to become the leading litigation-only economic consulting firm, free of corporate conflicts.
Following years of growth, over the past two years Fideres has started to expand internationally and we now have offices established in London, New York, Rome and Madrid. We plan to open an office in Australia and to grow our presence in Germany.
We are looking for candidates, who are committed to Fideres’s strategy and values, and who are willing to grow in this phase of our company’s expansion.
Our Benefits
Transparent Pay
We have a transparent and internally published pay structure by role, we do this as part of an equal pay initiative across our offices.
Continuous Learning
We offer all our employees a learning and development budget to spend flexibly on role relevant training needs. Support for further professional qualifications, apprenticeships and further education is also available. There is no risk of being pigeon-holed at Fideres as our employees are able to reach for opportunities as they see them without being restricted by corporate bureaucracy.
Benefits
We offer all normal standard benefits such as a competitive holiday allowance with the opportunity to purchase 10 days additional holiday, monthly social events, private medical insurance, a gym subsidy, equal family leave for all employees, along with other benefits.
What We Offer
You will get to work in a highly innovative environment where training and development is put at the top of the agenda to ensure that our staff are at the leading edge of their academic knowledge, and where rapid career progression is available to proactive employees who reach out for opportunities.
We offer flexible working hours and hybrid remote working, competitive salaries and bonuses, and competitive benefits.
We are proud of our values and our diverse and international workforce, and we are committed to building a working environment where employees feel safe, welcome and able to have an open and respectful dialogue on diversity issues.
Our Application Process
Applying
To apply, you will need to send us your CV and cover letter via the application form below. Please note that we consider a thoughtful and well considered cover letter to be an integral part of our application process.
Pre-Interview Assessments
Depending on the role you are applying for, you may be asked to complete a pre-interview assessment relevant to the role. This allows us to see if you have some of the necessary technical skills required for the role, and it can also give you an idea of some of the skills that would be required.
Interviews
For the majority of our roles, we have a three stage interview process. The main purpose of our interviews is to further assess your technical skills, your communication skills (team and client) and make sure that you have sufficiently researched what we do and the role itself. More generally it is a chance for us to get to know each other better.
A typical interview process would look a bit like this:
- First Interview: Technical with a team member
- Second Interview: Cultural fit interview
- Final Interview: Technical interview
Questions
If you have any questions about our process, please contact us at careers@fideres.com.
Executive Assistant
We are looking for a proactive Executive Assistant to join our team and support our Managing Partners with their busy international schedules. This role could be based in either London or New York.
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