The Executive Assistant performs administrative duties such as scheduling, travel arrangements, expense reporting, and calendar management to support departmental operations.
Our Purpose
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.
Title and Summary
Executive Assistant
Job Overview:
Performs general administrative duties to support day-to-day department operations in such areas as telephone coverage, scheduling of meetings, travel arrangements, expense reporting, calendar management, taking and distributing meeting minutes, copying, screening mail, ordering supplies, and maintaining department records.
Major Accountabilities: • Perform general administrative duties to support day-to-day department operations in such areas as phone coverage; scheduling meetings; completing travel arrangements; expense reporting; maintaining management calendar; taking and distributing meeting minutes; generating copies; screening mail; filing; ordering supplies and maintaining department records. • Prepare correspondence; memorandum; reports; presentations or other assigned documentation in specified software package. • Assist in preparing and maintaining departmental budget. • Administer programs; projects or processes specific to the operating unit served; and maintains spreadsheets or databases to monitor departmental information. • May research special topics as assigned. • Serve as administrative liaison with others within and outside the company. • Develop and produce reports as assigned. • May monitor and coordinate work of other employees or temporaries.
Education: • High School education. College degree a plus.
Knowledge / Experience: • Administrative experience in a corporate environment interfacing with senior and executive level management and senior customers.
Skills/ Abilities: • Strong knowledge of department budgets and desk top computer software.
Corporate Security Responsibility
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.
Title and Summary
Executive Assistant
Job Overview:
Performs general administrative duties to support day-to-day department operations in such areas as telephone coverage, scheduling of meetings, travel arrangements, expense reporting, calendar management, taking and distributing meeting minutes, copying, screening mail, ordering supplies, and maintaining department records.
Major Accountabilities: • Perform general administrative duties to support day-to-day department operations in such areas as phone coverage; scheduling meetings; completing travel arrangements; expense reporting; maintaining management calendar; taking and distributing meeting minutes; generating copies; screening mail; filing; ordering supplies and maintaining department records. • Prepare correspondence; memorandum; reports; presentations or other assigned documentation in specified software package. • Assist in preparing and maintaining departmental budget. • Administer programs; projects or processes specific to the operating unit served; and maintains spreadsheets or databases to monitor departmental information. • May research special topics as assigned. • Serve as administrative liaison with others within and outside the company. • Develop and produce reports as assigned. • May monitor and coordinate work of other employees or temporaries.
Education: • High School education. College degree a plus.
Knowledge / Experience: • Administrative experience in a corporate environment interfacing with senior and executive level management and senior customers.
Skills/ Abilities: • Strong knowledge of department budgets and desk top computer software.
Corporate Security Responsibility
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
- Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;
- Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
- Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
- Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.
Top Skills
Desktop Computer Software
Mastercard Chicago, Illinois, USA Office
8755 W Higgins Rd, Chicago, IL, United States
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