Executive Assistant Job at Barclays (Glasgow)

Executive Assistant

Barclays

Location:
United Kingdom , Glasgow ▼
Northampton

Category:
Office Administration

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

Not provided

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Job Description:

Join the Business Support & Administration team to ensure Barclays operates smoothly and efficiently. Your contributions will include a variety of essential office services such as clerical work, secretarial duties, word processing, telecommunications, and mail services, ensuring the organisation runs seamlessly. We are seeking a highly experienced Executive Assistant (EA), to provide proactive, high-quality support. This is a critical role requiring exceptional organisation capability, sound judgement, discretion, and the ability to operate confidentially in a fast paced, senior stakeholder environment. The successful candidate will act as a trusted partner to leadership, ensuring executives are able to focus on strategic priorities through effective diary management, communication, coordination, and delivery.

Job Responsibility:

To manage the executive's schedule, handling correspondence, preparing presentations and reports, and providing other administrative support as needed
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

Requirements:

Proven experience as an Executive assistant managing multiple Directors (minimum of 3 years)
Strong organisation skills to manage complex diaries, travel plans and competing priorities and time zones, in a fast-paced environment
Demonstrable Communication skills, both verbal and written, being detail oriented
MS office skills, such as PowerPoint, enabling support for governance activities, leadership forums, agendas, and minutes
Proactive and Collaborative mindset, with an ability to anticipate issues, resolve problems and escalate where appropriate
Act with a high level of discretion, integrity, and professionalism with and ability to work autonomously, demonstrating initiative

Nice to have:

Analytical capability
Process Risk Awareness

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
January 24, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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