Executive Assistant, Droit
$85-125k
+ Equity + Bonus
3 days a week in office
Comprehensive solutions for new market structure and regulatory requirments
Job no longer available
Comprehensive solutions for new market structure and regulatory requirments
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$85-125k
+ Equity + Bonus
3 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To build mission-critical, breakthrough products advancing global regulatory compliance and real-time controls.
Role
Who you are
- Must have at least 8+ years of Executive Assistant or administrative experience. Start-up experience is desirable
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience. Advanced skills using Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint (or Google equivalents), Outlook, Certify, and internet research as needed
- Prior experience includes providing leverage through highly effective calendar management and scheduling
- Experience and comfort with IT / AV equipment and set-ups, ability to help troubleshoot and ensure a smooth conference room set-up as required
- Positive approach and demeanor with can-do attitude and strong problem-solving skills. Able to anticipate issues earlier and take action
- Operates with a high sense of urgency and responsiveness
- Poise under pressure
- Highly organized with strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills and technical capabilities
- Able to work with minimal direction, exercise good judgment, and work in a fast-paced, start-up environment
- Prior success in roles that clearly required maintaining confidentiality and using good judgment in making decisions
- Core hours are 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. ET daily with flexibility as needed and accessibility outside of office hours to assist with time sensitive matters and international travel
- Expectation to be in the office 3 days per week
What the job involves
- The Executive Assistant will support Droit’s CEO, CFO, CTO, and General Counsel, managing schedules and travel, assisting with expense management and reporting and organizing and helping execute meetings with Droit’s Board of Directors. In this role you’ll also play a critical role in planning team and firmwide meetings and supporting a variety of functions, including People & Development, Brand/Marketing, and Finance & Business Operations
- The ideal candidate is a positive individual who enjoys working in a fast-paced, exciting, and growing organization. We need someone who is bright, motivated, professional, highly organized, and possesses a proven track record of high performance
- This role requires outstanding planning, time management, communication and organizational skills. Poise under pressure is a must. Superior attention to detail and the ability to meet tight deadlines and juggle multiple requests is critical. A high level of integrity and discretion in handling confidential information is required and strong professionalism and excellent judgment in dealing with colleagues and external contacts is imperative
- Provide executive administrative support for the CEO, CFO, CTO, and General Counsel. Effectively manage their calendars, travel and team meetings
- Schedule internal/external meetings, appointments, and conference/video calls
- Organize All-Employee meetings, sourcing topics when needed and handling all logistics
- Collaborate closely with EA and Office Management colleagues in New York and London
- Coordinate domestic and international travel arrangements and source accommodation options
- Review travel and expense reports using Certify
- Draft and edit correspondence and materials, e.g. memos, letters, and emails; editing and proofreading documents
- Provide light phone coverage, screen calls, and record messages
- Organize Quarterly Board meetings, ad hoc Board conference calls, and CEO executive sessions
- Liaise with Board members
- Support presentation materials preparation
- Take the lead on planning and organizing Droit’s annual Collective Ambition session, including identifying and confirming date and location, liaising with event space around food, beverage and AV/technical needs, assisting in the creation of agenda and event materials, and managing on-site logistics day of the event
- Provide support and back-up for New York Office Manager including managing weekly food, beverage and meal orders, helping with on-boarding and off-boarding of employees, liaising with office vendors (IT support, landlord, cleaning and maintenance staff, etc.), registering guests with the building, and creating passes for office access
- Support the People & Development, Brand/Marketing, and Business Operations teams in ad hoc projects as assigned
- Plan colleague events
- On site location support for business events
- Provide back up to other EA in both New York and London
Our take
New York-based Droit is a technology company providing enterprise-level solutions for the financial industry. The platform utilizes AI and machine learning algorithms to help financial institutions comply with complex regulations while optimizing their trade operations.
Since its founding in 2012, Droit has established itself as a technology provider advancing global regulatory compliance in the financial industry, due to its patented Adept platform which is now being used by some of the largest financial institutions around the globe. The patented Droit Adept platform goes beyond a "good to trade" engine by creating best-in-class audit capabilities with visualized decision paths on every inquiry. By visualizing each step of the decision-making process, clients have an audit record traceable back to the regulatory text.
Recognized as a top fintech company, Droit has raised capital to help support its plans for expansion into wealth management, which will extend its existing capital market into other use cases, further amplifying its position as a fintech leader.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
20% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Mar 2023
$23m
SERIES B
Nov 2016
$16m
SERIES A
Total funding: $39m
Company HQ
Battery Park City, New York, NY
Leadership
Brock Arnason
(Co-Founder & CEO)Worked for over 8 years at Morgan Stanley, including as Head of SEF Technology Strategy. Former Director of Interest Rate and Credit Technology at UBS.
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