London South East Academies Trust
Group Executive Assistant to Group Deputy CEO & Group CFO
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Elevare Civic Education Group is seeking a highly professional, proactive, and discreet Executive Assistant to provide high-quality, confidential, and well-controlled executive support to the Deputy Group CEO and Group CFO.
This is an exciting opportunity to work at the heart of a values-led civic education group spanning further and higher education, schools, and charitable activity. This role will provide essential support to a senior executive leader, helping to ensure the smooth running of a busy executive office while supporting key financial administration, accounting records, audit preparation, internal controls, governance reporting, and regulatory assurance activity across the Group.
The successful candidate will be highly organized, methodical, and resilient, with excellent communication skills and the confidence to work with senior leaders, governors, trustees, auditors, regulators, professional advisers, and colleagues across multiple sites. You will be comfortable managing complex diaries and inboxes, preparing high-quality briefings and reports, coordinating meetings, maintaining accurate records and trackers, handling confidential and financially sensitive information, and supporting the delivery of finance, audit, risk, compliance, and governance priorities.
You will bring strong judgement, excellent attention to detail, sound numeracy, and a calm, professional approach in a fast-paced environment. Experience of supporting financial administration, accounting processes, audit evidence collation, action tracking, internal controls, or assurance activity in a complex or regulated organization would be particularly valuable.
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This role would suit someone who enjoys working at pace, can move confidently between operational detail and wider strategic priorities, and is motivated by the opportunity to contribute to robust financial oversight, effective audit assurance, strong governance, and an organization with a clear civic mission.
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About you
- Degree-level education is preferable or equivalent experience.
- Substantial experience in a senior executive support or senior administrative role, including complex diary management, correspondence handling, forward planning, committee servicing, and support to senior leaders.
- Experience of supporting financial administration, accounting processes, financial records, management information, reporting cycles, or related assurance activity.
- Experience of supporting audit preparation, evidence collation, audit action tracking, internal controls, risk registers, compliance logs, or governance assurance processes.
- Able to prepare, review, and quality assure documents, reports, minutes, correspondence, and briefing papers to a high standard, ensuring accuracy, clarity, and consistency.
- Strong numeracy skills and confidence in working accurately with financial information, accounting records, management information, and assurance data.
- Highly proficient with Microsoft 365, including SharePoint, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and able to maintain accurate records, trackers, reports, and controlled documentation.
- Methodical, organized, and resilient, with the ability to manage competing executive priorities, statutory or regulatory deadlines, audit actions, and governance reporting requirements.
- Able to present complex, sensitive, or technical information clearly and appropriately for executives, Board, Committee, and external audiences.
- Able to operate with absolute discretion, sound judgement, and professionalism when handling confidential, commercially sensitive, financial, audit, governance, and regulatory information.
- Experience of working in Further Education, Higher Education, a multi-academy trust, public sector, charity, or similarly regulated environment would be advantageous.
- Committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion and the Nolan Principles of public life.
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