About Griffin
Hi, we’re Griffin! We’re the bank for companies who want to build and launch financial products.
Our context
We're rapidly heading towards a future where most of us access financial services through technology companies rather than high street banks. All sorts of companies are now embedding financial products into their apps and user journeys so that their customers can seamlessly make payments, manage expenses, take out loans, save, invest, and do more.
The problem is that companies are still dependent on legacy banking infrastructure if they want to offer regulated financial products. They need to either partner directly with an (slow-moving, risk-averse) incumbent bank and/or stitch together middleware from various Banking as a Service (BaaS) providers. This process is slow, expensive, and complex and makes it very hard for companies to get new financial products off the ground.
At Griffin, we want to change this.
Our purpose
We want to make it easy for companies to bring finance to their customers at the point of greatest relevance. So, we built a bank.
But not just any bank! Griffin is a technology platform and a bank: fully regulated, API-first, developer-centric, and purpose-built to serve innovative fintechs and brands who want to build and embed financial products.
Our culture
Our culture is our most important asset, and one of the ways we safeguard it is by being extremely intentional about hiring the right people. We won't hire people who don’t seem like a strong fit for our core values, even if they're otherwise extremely qualified.
We also believe that smart, motivated, conscientious people thrive in high-trust, high-autonomy environments. That’s why we’re transparent by default, and we encourage open discussion and challenge across all levels of the organisation. We’re also remote-first, asynchronous, and fully flexible - because you're the expert on how and when you do your best work.
The team
Our leadership team is made up of people who’ve spent their lives at the intersection of technology and finance. You can learn more about them on our website.
As an Executive Assistant to the CEO (David), you will act as a liaison across the executive team, Grifflings, investors, and the Board. You will work closely alongside another EA and the CEO’s Chief of Staff (Elin).
Who are you
The ideal candidate for this job will have most of the following:
- An interest in the fintech and challenger bank space
- Strong, clear communication skills, particularly writing
- Outstanding organisational skills, a systematic approach and excellent attention to detail
- The desire and ability to work in an autonomous fashion, using your initiative to look for ways to make the company more effective
- Excellent interpersonal skills and conduct - you’ll be the face of Griffin for many external stakeholders
- The ability to foster trust in everyone you interact with, from the newest joiners to the Board
- Proven ability to handle confidential and sensitive information with discretion
- The ability to prioritise when faced with competing demands
- Due to the office management aspect of the role, ideally you will be London based
Nice to have:
- Experience working in a tech startup environment
- Exposure to managing events
- Experience using relevant digital tools such as G-suite, Slack, Notion and Pitch.
What will you be doing here?
As an Executive Assistant to the CEO at Griffin, you will:
- Provide diary management and administrative support to the CEO including managing his itinerary for business trips
- Work closely with the Executive Committee and the Company Secretary to ensure that the business runs smoothly
- Provide executive assistance by managing calendars and correspondence and preparing any agendas or meeting materials, including assisting in the preparation of reports, presentations and other documents needed for executive meetings, board meetings or external engagements
- Shared responsibility with the Company Secretary to take clear, accurate minutes of committee and sub-committee meetings
- Support with planning and organising team events from a casual online social to a full-company offsite
- Communicate with internal and external stakeholders on behalf of the team where needed
- In-person office management responsibilities including managing security passes and ordering/restocking office snacks
What can we offer you?
We are an early stage startup and we're working hard to expand our benefits package. We're planning to add to this list in the future.
- 25 days off a year + bank holidays
- Flexible, remote-friendly working - including supporting home office setup
- Tax-advantaged stock options under HMRC's Company Share Option Plan (CSOP)
- Auto-enrolment into company pension scheme
- Enhanced parental leave with up to 6 months at full pay
- Private medical insurance and life insurance (provided by Vitality and AIG respectively)
How do I apply?
Are we your next move? Apply via the link below, if there's a match our Talent team will reach out to schedule an initial conversation and talk you through our interview process in detail.
N.B: We have a small London office in Moorgate, and we are comfortable hiring people to work from anywhere in the UK. About half of the company is based within occasional commuting distance of London, the other half is full-time remote.
Our goal is for Griffin to proportionally represent the diversity of the working population in society. We’re working to ensure that Griffin is a supportive, empowering and inclusive environment for every member of our team — whatever your combination of race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, physical ability, nationality, neurodiversity, and religious beliefs. If you’re part of a group that is under-represented in fintech, we’d love to hear from you
Griffin Bank Ltd request that recruitment agencies do not speculatively submit CVs to any employee or associate of our company unless explicitly asked to do so by a member of our Talent team.
Any CVs sent to any member of our team on a speculative basis will not be recognised and we will not accept liability for any fee or commission should we subsequently employ a candidate who applied to us directly or was introduced by an instructed agency that may also have been submitted speculatively by an uninstructed agency.
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