Senior Administrative Assistant, Enforcement

Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • High school diploma or equivalent; college degree or six years of administrative experience preferred.
  • Strong knowledge of office procedures, grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
  • Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information.
  • Proficient in word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation software.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects and tasks independently.

Responsibilities

  • Create and edit routine and non-routine correspondence and reports.
  • Organize, maintain, and correct computer-based records and files.
  • Prepare advanced presentations using various software tools.
  • Answer and route telephone calls, providing information to callers and assisting visitors.
  • Manage scheduling of meetings, events, and travel arrangements.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401(k) plan with company match and additional retirement contributions.
  • Generous paid time-off program, including vacation, personal, and sick days.
  • Tuition reimbursement and commuter benefits.
  • Unique wellness programs and support for adoption, family care, and surrogacy.
Full Job Description
The Administrative Assistant III performs a wide variety of tasks such as typing, formatting, and editing correspondence and reports; organizing and correcting computer-based records and files; organizing and preparing materials for use in presentations; scheduling meetings and events; assisting telephone callers and visitors; and providing related assistance to one or more officer or director. This is very highly skilled technical or administrative work in which incumbents are experienced in their assigned roles and working under direct supervision. Essential Job Functions: - Creates routine correspondence, reports and forms in support of department. - Types, formats, and edits non-routine correspondence, reports, forms and related documents using word processing software. - Organizes files and computer databases and makes corrections to information in files. - Prepares advanced charts, graphs, tables, and presentations using word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation software. - Answers the telephone, screens and routes calls and takes messages for senior staff. - Provides information as appropriate; greets and assists visitors. - Receives, opens, and routes mail for officers. Prepares mail for pick-up. - Obtains information and materials and prepares reports. - Assures that documents and materials are copied, collated, and distributed as required. - Orders, stocks, and distributes stationary, forms, office supplies, equipment, and furniture. Schedules and organizes meetings, luncheons, and events. - Prepares meeting agendas, takes minutes, and documents decisions. - Makes travel arrangements, obtains confirmations and tickets, and prepares travel expense reports. - Demonstration of FINRA’s values. - Collaboration, both in-person and virtually, in furtherance of FINRA’s mission of investor protection and market integrity. Education/Experience Requirements: - High school diploma or equivalent. College degree or six years administrative experience. - Knowledge of office procedures, grammar, punctuation, and spelling. - Ability to work with sensitive and confidential information. - Proficiency in the use of word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation software. - Ability to work independently, manage the responsibility of various projects and duties simultaneously and ensure completion of numerous tasks. Work Conditions: - Hybrid work environment, with defined in-person presence requirements. - Occasional travel may be required. - Some overtime may be required. For work that is performed in Los Angeles and San Francisco, CA, CO, FL, TX, IL, PA, MA, MD, VA, Washington, DC, NY and NJ, please refer to the chart below for the salary range for the corresponding location. FINRA complies with all state and local pay transparency laws and regulations requiring the disclosure of salary ranges for the position. In addition to location, actual compensation is based on various factors, including but not limited to, the candidate’s skill set, level of experience, education, and market considerations. Los Angeles, CA: Minimum Hourly Rate $33.00, Maximum Hourly Rate $50.00 San Francisco, CA: Minimum Hourly Rate $35.00, Maximum Hourly Rate $52.00 CO/FL/TX: Minimum Hourly Rate $26.37, Maximum Hourly Rate $46.23 IL/PA: Minimum Hourly Rate $28.94, Maximum Hourly Rate $50.91 MA/MD/VA/Washington, DC: Minimum Hourly Rate $30.22, Maximum Hourly Rate $53.07 NY/NJ: Minimum Hourly Rate $30.22, Maximum Hourly Rate $55.49 #LI-Hybrid To be considered for this position, please submit an application. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis. The information provided above has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work of the position. It is not a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required. Please note: If the 9Apply Now9 button on a job board posting does not take you directly to the FINRA Careers site, enter www.finra.org/careers into your browser to reach our site directly. Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Non-exempt employees are also eligible for overtime pay in accordance with federal, state, or local law. As part of its dedication to employee wellness, FINRA provides comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance. Additional insurance includes basic life, accidental death and dismemberment, supplemental life, spouse/domestic partner and dependent life, and spouse/domestic partner and dependent accidental death and dismemberment, short- and long-term disability, long-term care, business travel accident, disability and legal. FINRA offers immediate participation and vesting in a 401(k) plan with company match and eligibility for participation in an additional FINRA-funded retirement contribution, tuition reimbursement, commuter benefits, and other benefits that support employee wellness, such as adoption assistance, backup family care, surrogacy benefits, employee assistance, and wellness programs. Time Off and Paid Leave* FINRA encourages its employees to focus on their health and wellness in many ways, including through a generous time-off program of 15 days of paid time off, 5 personal days and 9 sick days, unless otherwise required by law (all pro-rated in the first year). Additionally, we are proud to support our communities by providing two volunteer service days (based on full-time schedule). Other paid leave includes military leave, jury duty leave, bereavement leave, voting and election official leave for federal, state or local primary and general elections, care of a family member leave (available after 90 days of employment); and childbirth and parental leave (available after 90 days of employment). Full-time employees receive nine paid holidays. *Based on full-time schedule Important Information FINRA9s Code of Conduct imposes restrictions on employees9 investments and requires financial disclosures that are uniquely related to our role as a securities regulator. FINRA employees are required to disclose to FINRA all brokerage accounts that they maintain, and those in which they control trading or have a financial interest (including any trust account of which they are a trustee or beneficiary and all accounts of a spouse, domestic partner or minor child who lives with the employee) and to authorize their broker-dealers to provide FINRA with duplicate statements for all of those accounts. All of those accounts are subject to the Code9s investment and securities account restrictions, and new employees must comply with those investment restrictions9including disposing of any security issued by a company on FINRA9s Prohibited Company List or obtaining a written waiver from their Executive Vice President9by the date they begin employment with FINRA. Employees may only maintain securities accounts that must be disclosed to FINRA at one or more securities firms that provide an electronic feed (e-feed) of data to FINRA, and must move securities accounts from other securities firms to a firm that provides an e-feed within three months of beginning employment. You can read more about these restrictions here. As standard practice, employees must also execute FINRA9s Employee Confidentiality and Invention Assignment Agreement without qualification or modification and comply with the company9s policy on nepotism. Search Firm Representatives Please be advised that FINRA is not seeking assistance or accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms for this employment opportunity. Regardless of past practice, a valid written agreement and task order must be in place before any resumes are submitted to FINRA. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at FINRA without a valid written agreement and task order in place will be deemed the sole property of FINRA and no fee will be paid in the event that person is hired by FINRA.

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