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Goldman Sachs & Company Executive Office, Media Relations, Admin Assistant, New York in New York, New York

The Executive Office plays an integral role in setting and advancing Goldman Sachs' corporate strategy, and in preserving the firm's distinctive culture. We are responsible for safeguarding the firm's relationship with alumni, clients, shareholders, policy makers, and the broader public, while ensuring that our own people remain informed about the firm's evolving priorities. We also partner with the businesses to source high-impact opportunities in line with the firm's social and sustainability agendas.

The Corporate Communications team in the Executive Office is seeking a highly motivated administrative assistant for the Global Head of Corporate Communications. This role involves supporting a Partner Managing Director, including their schedule, travel and external and internal relations. The role requires exceptional prioritization and communication skills, as well as the ability to adapt to a wide range of working styles and responsibilities. Previous experience in supporting senior executives and the ability to work in a busy, fast-paced environment is preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Provides administrative support in a team environment to a Partner Managing Director.
  • Coordinates complex, senior-level internal/ external meetings
  • Handles a high volume of phones calls, ensuring that media calls are always answered during normal office hours
  • Interacts with news reporters and high-level business leaders in a professional and effective manner
  • Maintains complex and extremely detailed calendars, thinking proactively about scheduling needs and prioritizes meeting requests and related logistics.
  • Coordinates domestic and international travel arrangements and processes expense reports.
  • Available for weekend or evening work on occasion, in particular to support travel arrangements
  • Plans logistics and manages budget and a detailed guest list for Partner-sponsored internal and external events
  • Maintains understanding of firm expenses, client entertainment, news subscriptions and attendance policies.
  • Book rooms and locations for meetings and events, ensuring all logistical planning details are addressed
  • Manages monthly invoices and arranges for payment.
  • Orders supplies and keeps inventory well-stocked.

Skills

  • Requires excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
  • High attention to detail.
  • Strong proficiency in MS Word and Outlook
  • Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, Concur and Zoom
  • Ability to maintain high standards despite pressing deadlines.
  • Ability to solve problems quickly and efficiently.
  • Ability to handle highly sensitive, confidential and non-routine information.
  • Self-starter with excellent anticipation skills; problem solving; follow up.
  • Demonstrates dependability and sense of urgency about getting results.
  • Strong organizational skills.
  • Comfortable working with people at all organizational levels.
  • Ability to display a consistent, professional degree of communication
  • Must be able to prioritize a variety of time-sensitive tasks.
  • Must have excellent judgment; independent thinker and resourceful.
  • Team player with a positive attitude.
  • Highest degree of integrity, professionalism, diplomacy and discretion required.
  • 3+ years of experience
About Goldman Sachs
At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world.
We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.
We're committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more: https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 2023. All rights reserved.
Goldman Sachs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veterans status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Salary Range
The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States-based position is $70000-$110000. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year-end.

Benefits
Goldman Sachs is committed to providing our people with valuable and competitive benefits and wellness offerings, as it is a core part of providing a strong overall employee experience. A summary of these offerings, which are generally available to active, non-temporary, full-time and part-time US employees who work at least 20 hours per week, can be found here.

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., 2018. All rights reserved Goldman Sachs is an equal employment/affirmative action employer Female/Minority/Disability/Vet.

Minimum Salary: 70000.00 Maximum Salary: 110000.00 Salary Unit: Yearly

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