Personal Assistant

Job Summary

We are looking for a Personal / Team Assistant to support the M&A team.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

• Support the M&A team, assisting with daily BAU tasks as well as wider projects as requested.
• Take responsibility for additional administrative duties under guidance to support maximum team productivity, with careful record keeping and support for other M&A Assistants.
• Prioritise and proactively manage tasks and projects from start to finish using strong organisational skills, with the ability to multitask while remaining calm and professional.
• Use excellent interpersonal and written and verbal communication skills to confidently engage with external clients, internal support functions, team members, and the global Management Team.

Business

• Organise travel itineraries, including booking flights, car pickups, accommodation, visa requests, restaurant reservations, etc. This may require urgent or immediate assistance for cancelled or rescheduled travel arrangements.
• Process expenses and ensure the Gifts & Entertainment register is updated within policy parameters.
• Raise and manage IT, telecom, and market data requests; track, follow up, and progress until completion, updating all stakeholders throughout the process.
• Book meeting rooms and, where required, arrange refreshments, video conferencing, and other hospitality needs.
• Assist the team with administrative tasks such as printing, scanning, and pitch book binding as required.
• Assist with logistics and meetings around annual conferences, including arranging tickets, travel, and accommodation; organise events such as CEO or Roundtable events and keep stakeholders informed throughout the process.
• Onboard new joiners/offboard leavers and movers by raising system access and software through the SRM system, and completing required leavers documentation and handover letters.
• Onboard new vendors for invoicing and raise purchase orders where required, tracking, following up, and progressing until completion; update all stakeholders throughout the process.
• Notify stakeholders of international visitors and complete visitor forms.
• Organise internal and external client and industry events and entertainment, including roadshows and conferences.
• Expense tracking and allocation to project cost centres, billing to clients as required.
• Provide cover for other team PAs during periods of leave or peak periods.

Skills and Experience

• Application & PC Skills
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Governance & Support

About Standard Chartered

We’re an international bank, nimble enough to act and 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 improve. If you’re seeking a purposeful career and want to work for a bank that makes a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents, and we look forward to seeing what you can bring to us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good, is achieved by how we live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you’ll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing — be assertive, challenge one another, and act with integrity, keeping the client at the heart of what we do.
• Never settle — continuously strive to improve and innovate, keep things simple, and learn from experience.
• Are better together — be inclusive, value diversity, and work collectively for the long term.

What We Offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial, and social wellbeing.

• Core bank benefits for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time off including annual leave, parental/maternity leave (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum), and volunteering leave (3 days), with minimum global standards for annual and public holidays (totaling at least 30 days).
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with adaptable patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, resilience courses, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders, and self-help toolkits.
• A continuous learning culture with opportunities to reskill and upskill, including access to physical, virtual, and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive, values-driven organisation that embraces and celebrates diverse talent across teams, functions, and geographies.