Abbie Anderson

The mission of the Executive Assistant is to stay five steps ahead of their leader, tracking all of the administrative details, and clearing the path for her to make her greatest contribution to our business. The Executive Assistant will be a key asset to the CEO by anticipating needs at an exceptionally high level, allowing her to develop vision and strategy for all aspects of Pearl Business Consulting so that we can reach our revenue and profitability goals.

While repetitive tasks are certainly part of this position, the tasks assigned can vary from week to week based on the CEO's needs and the needs of business. The most important responsibility of the Executive Assistant is to ensure that administrative tasks and projects are completed with a high level of efficiency, confidentiality, accuracy, flexibility, and positivity in order to support the initiatives of the CEO.

RESPONSIBILITIES

The Executive Assistant will have the following primary responsibilities:

-Meeting management including preparing agendas, printing financial reports, taking notes, distributing action items, and arranging catering as needed

-Communicating on the CEO’s behalf both internally and externally

-Email management on behalf of the CEO and within the company inbox using the Spark app to assign emails to team members as needed

-Attending in person or virtual meetings multiple times per week

-Checking the virtual mailbox once per week and processing mail to various departments

-Complex calendar management and scheduling (both personally and professionally) on behalf of the CEO and the finance team.

-Varying personal and professional administrative tasks including, but not limited to, booking appointments, research projects, coordinating travel, and ordering gifts/flowers, etc.

-Light project management and accounts payable duties

PROFICIENCIES

-Quality Communication: The EA must be an excellent communicator, in both written and oral form. This includes proficiency in spelling, grammar, and punctuation. This also includes being able to take a large amount of information and summarize it quickly both in writing and orally on a regular basis. You must also be able to track communication (and be very responsive) across multiple channels without losing any details. Those channels could include in-person meetings, virtual video calls, Slack messages, text messages and/or emails.

-High Level of Discretion: Since our EA will regularly work with confidential information, discretion and sensitivity regarding financial information is a must.

-Team Player: In addition to working directly with the CEO, the EA will also work with members of the Finance Team and other departments. They’ll need to be able to collaborate and communicate well with these team members, maintaining a can-do spirit and not complaining, making excuses, or gossiping.

-Anticipating Needs: As a part of our commitment to enabling our CEO to serve our company and customers at the top of her game, our EA will strive to anticipate needs and eliminate friction at work and home whenever possible. This means you know how to stay five steps ahead of your leader, clearing the path for her to make his greatest contribution.

-Affinity for Technology: Our executive assistant will be a technologically savvy Mac user and will not be intimidated by learning new technology. Proficiency in the following tech platforms is ideal: Slack, Zoom, Google Suite, ClickUp, Quickbooks Online/Time and Microsoft Office Suite.