Executive Assistant
Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest.
Hyper-growth startup, Affirm is looking for an established, proactive, and detail-oriented Executive Assistant to support our Chief Financial Officer. You are a seasoned EA who’s seen it all, understands the value in cultivating relationships across all levels, and thrives and excels on administrative tasks. From meticulous calendar management and ensuring cross-functional alignment, to quarterly team offsites and events, various groups will look to you to ensure their executive’s day runs smoothly and efficiently.
What You'll Do
- Strategically and methodically support Affirm’s Chief Financial Officer as your primary executive -- serving as a thought partner in business needs and team engagement.
- Support senior leaders of the finance organization with administrative requests.
- Maintain the executive’s calendar in a thoughtful and purposeful manner, ensuring meetings contain the appropriate attendees, agenda items, and any changes are done with full consideration of a nationwide team, spanning multiple time zones.
- Coordinate and execute on frequent travel needs, including but not limited to:
- domestic and international air travel
- ground transportation
- lodging
- Build rapport with leaders within the finance organization and key cross-functional stakeholders to serve as a catalyst around scheduling and/or spontaneous inquiries and requests.
- Partner closely with other EAs to coordinate needs across the wider Affirm executive team.
- Attend meetings when requested to identify action items, deliverables, and follow-ups.
- Additional administrative functions to include organize daily briefings, drive monthly department All Hands, expense reports (via Concur), working offsites, and the preparation of documents and presentations (using Google Suite and Keynote)
What We Look For
- 4+ years experience as an Executive Assistant to a C-Suite executive.
- Ability to work independently as well as across various teams.
- Previous experience at a rapidly growing company, with the ability to navigate and thrive in a fast-paced dynamic environment.
- Working knowledge of Google Suite, Expensify/Concur, and major airline carrier’s platforms.
- Ability to manage conflict as well as give and receive feedback diplomatically.
- Outstanding verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong work ethic, professionalism, confidentiality and good judgment.
- Organized and resourceful, able to juggle and multi-task with acute attention to detail and follow through.
- Genuine passion for supporting others.
Location
We’re excited to announce that Affirm is now a remote-first company! The majority of our roles can be accomplished anywhere in the U.S. and Canada (with the exception of Quebec). While most Affirmers will have the option to choose a remote-first accommodation, our offices in San Francisco, New York City, Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Salt Lake City will remain operational and accessible for anyone to use on a voluntary basis. This role requires you to live within reasonable access to a particular office in order to fulfill certain job responsibilities.
Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
If you got to this point, we hope you're feeling excited about the job description you just read. Even if you don't feel that you meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. We're eager to meet people that believe in Affirm's mission and can contribute to our team in a variety of ways – not just candidates who check all the boxes.
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