Personal Assistant

Job Description

We are Centrica! We’re so much more than an energy company. We’re a family of brands revolutionising a cleaner, greener future. Working here is #MoreThanACareer - we’re powered by purpose. Together we can make an impact that will truly change tomorrow. Whether you’re developing cutting-edge green tech, helping customers on the front line or simplifying operations behind the scenes.

Your work here isn’t just a job – it’s a mission. We all play a vital role in energising a greener, fairer future.

We are recruiting for a personal assistant to support our Chief Finance Officer and People Director. This is a new position in the British Gas New Business and Net Zero team.

Location - Windsor (2-3 days a week) with flexible home working on the other days

About the Role:

• Provide an effective and efficient support service to a very high level of competency in support of the Director.
• Manage the Director’s travel, including arranging international and local travel: flights, hotels and detailed travel itineraries.
• Manage the Director’s papers and documents to ensure they are fully prepared for all appointments.
• Take notes and compose correspondence to a high standard.
• Organise and prepare complex documentation, often requiring the collation of information from a number of individuals or departments.
• Take responsibility for the co-ordination of projects or discreet pieces of work as directed by the Director within the agreed guidelines to ensure the work is completed to deadline.
• Screen and redirect incoming messages and use own initiative to alert the Director of high importance issues as they arise.
• Provide cover for other PAs as required from time to time to cover periods of holiday or absence.

About You:

• Experience of providing senior level support executives in a complex matrix organisation
• Experience in liaising effectively with senior executives internally and externally.
• Significant proven experience of operating in a similar role that requires a high level of commercial understanding within a complex environment.
• Experience of working under pressure and to tight deadlines.
• IT skills – Advanced Microsoft Office, particularly Word, PowerPoint and Outlook
• Flexibility in working hours.
• Ability to work pro-actively and independently with confidence.
• Assertive, resilient and able to manage strong personalities.
• High level of confidentiality and initiative.
• Highly organised, able to prioritise and forward plan and remains calm under pressure.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills (spoken and written) with a pleasant, professional manner.
• A self-motivated individual with the ability to work alone under minimum supervision and direction.

At Centrica we embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. To build a more sustainable future, we need the best team – a team with a diverse mix of people and skills, where everyone feels welcome and able to succeed. We are dedicated in helping to close the diversity gap and would love to see more females, people of colour and LGBTQ+ employees, as well as those from a variety of cultures and ethnicity to veterans and the differently abled. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a big part of who we are, we are not looking for people to fit into our culture but to add to it!

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This role is being handled by the Centrica recruitment team and NO agency contact is required.