Senior Executive Assistant, Finance

Summary

Join Wealthsimple's Finance team as a Senior Executive Assistant, providing comprehensive support to the CFO and Finance leadership. Coordinate and lead key Finance meetings, manage executive calendars, process expenses, and support event planning. This 12-month contract role requires proven executive support experience, excellent organizational skills, and proficiency with collaborative tools. The ideal candidate will possess strong communication skills, discretion with confidential information, and experience supporting operations across multiple locations. Wealthsimple offers competitive salary, retirement savings matching, generous PTO, employee resource groups, and a remote-first work environment.

Requirements

• Proven experience supporting executives at a senior level
• A collaborative and open approach to communication: you are experienced in delivering clear, concise and solution-focused messages, that are easily understood by a cross-discipline team
• Discretion when handling sensitive and confidential financial information
• Experience supporting operations across multiple office locations
• Exceptional organizational and project management capabilities with the ability to manage complex meeting cadences and calendars
• Proficiency with collaborative tools including Google Workspace, calendar management systems, and expense tools

Responsibilities

• Coordinate, organize and help lead weekly and monthly Finance meetings, such as Coffee Chats, All-Hands and Leadership team meetings
• Manage comprehensive calendar support for the CFO, including scheduling weekly syncs with Finance directs, M-Team members, and other key stakeholders
• Process expenses, ensuring timely submission and approval
• Support the planning and execution of events such as the Finance Fall Takeover

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Retirement savings matching plan using Wealthsimple for Business
• Generous PTO offerings
• A wide variety of peer and company-led Employee Resource Groups (ie. Rainbow, Women of Wealthsimple, Black @ WS)