Assistant Banking

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Assistant Banking

Operations

Purpose of Job

The Assistant provides administrative support to staff, including travel arrangements and secretarial assistance in project preparation.

Accountabilities & Responsibilities

• Screening telephone calls, taking messages and passing them on as appropriate, providing a professional front of house service.
• Acting as a Receptionist when required in order to ensure an effective and efficient operation of the office.
• Distribution of mail, ensuring the correct correspondence gets to the correct EBRD staff member.
• Managing team shared calendars, send out Teams invites to staff, clients and stakeholders.
• Organising conference calls, video conferences, external and internal meetings;
• Assistance in organisation of workshops and seminars, preparing presentations for internal and external meetings, formatting of documents.
• Proofreading and drafting routine business correspondence for Banker’s signature, editing, photocopying, scanning and binding documents;
• Arranging translation of documents with dedicated translation bureaus;
• Travel arrangements for RO staff’s business trips, including visa arrangements when required, obtaining travel pre-approvals, liaison with a dedicated Travel Agent and the Bank’s Travel Office.
• Providing administrative support in project preparation/ due diligence/ monitoring: updating projects databases and filing project documents.
• Maintaining the filing system to ensure instant retrieval of up-to-date information (Teams, SharePoint).
• OpsCom preparation: video-link organising.
• Assistance to the Office Manager in running the office.
• Ad-hoc other secretarial and administrative duties when required.

Knowledge, Skills, Experience & Qualifications

Academic Qualifications

• Higher education
• Fluent English and Lithuanian, with excellent written and oral communication skills

Experience/Knowledge

• Secretarial and administrative experience essential
• Good organisational skills, proactive and flexible attitude to work essential.
• Ability to prioritise own work and to work on own initiative.
• Good communications skills, including pleasant and efficient telephone manner
• Attention to detail and eye for accuracy
• Ability to cope well under pressure
• Ability to build effective working relationships with clients and colleagues in a multicultural environment
• Conscientious, reliable and flexible with a professional and helpful attitude.
• Strong team player, with the ability to work highly efficiently and cheerfully and to handle simultaneous assignments involving a wide range of bank-wide contacts.
• Willing to work overtime as and when required, sometimes at short notice.
• Ability to multi-task while remaining calm and professional and a capacity for hard work.
• Excellent interpersonal manner, including tact and diplomacy.
• Ability to exercise judgment on and deal discretely with confidential/sensitive information and data.
• Ability to take on responsibility.
• Excellent time-keeper.

Technical Skills

Computer literate: Windows XP: Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint

What is it like to work at the EBRD? / About EBRD 

Our agile and innovative approach is what makes life at the EBRD a unique experience! You will be part of a pioneering and diverse international organisation, and use your talents to make a real difference to people's lives and help shape the future of the regions we invest in.  

At EBRD, our Values – Inclusiveness, Innovation, Trust, and Responsibility – are at the heart of how we work. We bring these to life through our Workplace Behaviours: listening well and speaking up, collaborating smartly, acting decisively with full commitment, and simplifying to amplify our impact. These principles shape our culture and define our success. We seek individuals who not only share these values but are also committed to embedding them in their daily work, fostering a positive and high-performing environment. 

The EBRD environment provides you with: 

• Varied, stimulating and engaging work that gives you an opportunity to interact with a wide range of experts in the financial, political, public and private sectors across the regions we invest in. 
• A working culture that embraces inclusion and celebrates diversity. Our workforce reflects a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences, bringing fresh ideas, energy, and innovation and enhancing our ability to serve our clients, shareholders, and counterparties effectively.
• A hybrid workplace that offers flexibility to teams and individuals; that is based on trust, flexibility and connectedness. 
• An environment that places sustainability, equality and digital transformation at the heart of what we do. 
• A workplace that prioritises employee wellbeing and provides a comprehensive suite of competitive benefits. 

Diversity is one of the Bank’s core values which are at the heart of everything it does.  As such, the EBRD seeks to ensure that everyone is treated with respect and given equal opportunities and works in an inclusive environment. The EBRD encourages all qualified candidates who are nationals of the EBRD member countries to apply regardless of their racial, ethnic, religious and cultural background, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, socio-economic background or disability.   

Please note, that due to the high volume of applications received, we regret to inform you that we are unable to provide detailed feedback to candidates who have not been shortlisted (for further consideration).