Group Executive Assistant to Group Deputy CEO & Group CFO

About the role:

Closing Date: 9 September 2026. Interview & Assessment date: 17 September 2026

Previous applicants need not apply.

About the role

Elevare Civic Education Group is seeking a highly professional, proactive and discreet Executive Assistant to provide high-quality, confidential and well-controlled executive support to the Deputy Group CEO and Group CFO.

This is an exciting opportunity to work at the heart of a values-led civic education group spanning further and higher education, schools and charitable activity. This role will provide essential support to a senior executive leader, helping to ensure the smooth running of a busy executive office while supporting key financial administration, accounting records, audit preparation, internal controls, governance reporting and regulatory assurance activity across the Group.

The successful candidate will be highly organised, methodical and resilient, with excellent communication skills and the confidence to work with senior leaders, governors, trustees, auditors, regulators, professional advisers and colleagues across multiple sites. You will be comfortable managing complex diaries and inboxes, preparing high-quality briefings and reports, coordinating meetings, maintaining accurate records and trackers, handling confidential and financially sensitive information, and supporting the delivery of finance, audit, risk, compliance and governance priorities.

You will bring strong judgement, excellent attention to detail, sound numeracy and a calm, professional approach in a fast-paced environment. Experience of supporting financial administration, accounting processes, audit evidence collation, action tracking, internal controls or assurance activity in a complex or regulated organisation would be particularly valuable.

This role would suit someone who enjoys working at pace, can move confidently between operational detail and wider strategic priorities, and is motivated by the opportunity to contribute to robust financial oversight, effective audit assurance, strong governance and an organisation with a clear civic mission.

In return, we offer the opportunity to play a central role within an ambitious and collaborative Group, working closely with senior leaders and contributing to work that has real impact across our communities.

What you will do

• Provide high-level executive support to the Deputy Group CEO & Group CFO, with secondary support to the wider Group Executive Team.
• Manage complex diaries, inboxes, correspondence, calls, meetings and travel arrangements.
• Draft, proofread, edit and quality assure reports, letters, Board and Committee papers, briefings, presentations and correspondence, ensuring that financial, audit, governance and regulatory information is accurate, clear and produced to deadline.
• Coordinate deadlines, chase actions and ensure timely responses for executive priorities, audit actions, governance returns, regulatory requirements and financial reporting cycles.
• Handle sensitive, confidential, commercially sensitive and financially sensitive information with absolute discretion and professionalism.
• Support the preparation, collation, review and issue of Board, Committee and governance meeting papers, with particular attention to financial reporting, audit assurance, risk, compliance and regulatory matters.
• Maintain accurate risk registers, audit action trackers, compliance logs, financial information, accounting records, assurance evidence, files and key organisational data.
• Arrange internal and external meetings, prepare agendas and papers, take accurate minutes and follow up agreed actions, ensuring financial, accounting, audit, internal control, governance and regulatory matters are clearly captured and progressed.
• Support the review, updating and publication of policies and procedures on SharePoint, particularly those relating to finance, accounting, audit, internal controls, governance, compliance and regulation.
• Coordinate regulatory committee activities where required, including papers, logistics, minutes, action tracking and follow-up on matters relating to finance, accounting, audit, internal controls, governance, regulation and risk.
• Represent the Group Executive Team professionally as a first point of contact for staff, visitors and stakeholders.
• Review systems and processes relating to executive support, financial administration, audit tracking, governance reporting an…