Administrative Assistant IV

Countrywide Financial Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, is a nationwide financial services company. As a national leader in residential finance, we're recognized as an innovator of new financial products and services.

Administrative Assistant IV

Responsibilities:

- The individual in this job provides a variety of specialized support services, generally non-routine and non-repetitive to either the principal to whom he/she reports or department staff.

- May gather information and prepare a variety of operational reports and spreadsheets involving such items as budget compliance, staffing levels and product/service productivity levels. May prepare multi-media materials in association with presentations.

- Acts as a liaison in requesting assistance, following up with and resolving issues associated with administrative functions including human resources, facilities, purchasing and MIS.

- Performs secretarial duties including the processing of mail, filing, answering phones,
photocopying, faxing, generating and distributing correspondence, memorandum, entering data, scheduling meetings and conference rooms, coordinating travel arrangements and maintaining calendar.

- Represents Senior Executive in his/her absence by communicating and meeting with external clients, consultants, vendors and business partners.

- May supervise less experienced and entry-level support staff, i.e. receptionists, mail or file clerks, etc.


Preferred Skills & Education:

- College coursework or equivalent.

- Minimum of 5 years experience.

- Sufficient fluency with standard business software, preferably Excel, Word, Access and PowerPoint to create and/or modify complex spreadsheets, word processing documents, charts and graphs, and multi-media materials.

- The ability and skills necessary to independently conduct research projects and analyze/summarize findings.

- Excellent communication skills (written and spoken) at a level required to author correspondence and memorandum without appreciable supervision.




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