Executive Assistant

This job is with Standard Chartered Bank, an inclusive employer and a member of my Gwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community. Please do not contact the recruiter directly.

We are seeking a highly organized, proactive, and adaptable Executive Assistant to join the Corporate Affairs, Brand and Marketing team at Standard Chartered Bank in New York. This role provides critical administrative and operational support to the team within Corporate Affairs, Brand and Marketing, helping ensure the smooth execution of priorities across communications, reputation, brand, marketing, philanthropy and risk/governance assessments and reporting.

The successful candidate is a master of prioritization who can anticipate needs before they arise, manage complex schedules, and serve as a trusted liaison across internal teams and external partners. You will play a key role in enabling the team to operate efficiently and effectively, while supporting broader team coordination, special projects, and day‑to‑day operations. Patience, sound judgment, and resilience are essential.

In this role, you are not just managing calendars or logistics – you are contributing directly to the employee and stakeholder experience across Corporate Affairs, Brand and Marketing.

• Provide administrative support to the Corporate Affairs, Brand and Marketing (CABM) team
• Manage complex calendars, including internal and external meetings, key deadlines, and priority engagements.
• Conduct weekly forward‑looking calendar reviews to ensure accuracy, alignment with priorities, and proactive conflict resolution.
• Help to organize and coordinate leadership meetings, governance forums, town halls, and team meetings.
• Keep senior leaders informed of time‑sensitive issues, including deadlines for risk related issues, and ensure appropriate follow‑through.

• Assist with correspondence, presentations, briefing materials, and reports.
• Ensure documents are accurate, polished, and delivered on time.
• Support internal communications as needed.

• Liaise with internal stakeholders including Communications, Marketing, HR, Finance, IT, and Facilities.
• Support ad‑hoc initiatives.

• Coordinate meetings with global and regional colleagues.
• Arrange domestic and international travel, as requested.
• Process expenses, invoices, and purchase requests.
• Track budgets and manage vendors.
• Maintain team risk assessments and governance records.

• Effective communications
• Event management
• Establishing and maintaining trust
• Creativity
• Key performance indicators
• Risk management

• Proven executive or administrative support experience.
• Strong organizational and communication skills.
• High attention to detail and discretion.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams.
• Collaborative, proactive, and resilient.

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 how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in…