Executive Assistant

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business._ Executive Assistant provides a wide variety of high-level support and administrative management to senior executive(s). This position is proactive and continually looking for ways to assist the supported executive. **Essential Duties and Responsibilities** * Manages daily administrative needs of executive including ordering supplies, answering phones, maintaining records, creating files, managing email and other support duties as needed. * Manages communications to and from the executive’s office and actively manages their calendar to ensure limited time spent on high priority activities. * Prepares various correspondence, memorandums, and reports for executive officer(s). * Manages all department communications, activities, rosters, and coordinates events for the department or market. * Work with stakeholders to ensure materials are prepared and available in advance to ensure best use of meeting time. Manages all AV needs for the meeting. * Manages expense reports and travel coordination and preparation * Responds to customer and/or associate inquiries/complaints directed to executive officer(s). * Acts as a liaison with vendor management in getting agreements through process to approval. * Creates forms, processes and/or procedures, reports and presentations; assists the responsible executive with implementation, communication, maintaining, tracking and evaluation of these methods to ensure effectiveness, efficiency, adherence and compliance. * Gathers, prepares and submits regulatory and exam responses after review by executive. * Interfaces with associates and executives throughout the department to research and collect needed information; examines and analyzes collected data; and communicate results and recommendations * Assists on special projects. Duties may include; acting in executive(s) absence, reviewing status of project and activities to ensure timely completion, sending follow up emails and informing executive of ongoing status. * Ensures all departmental documents and activities are performed in compliance with applicable laws, regulations, policies and procedures as applicable to this position, including completion of required compliance training. * Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned. **Qualifications** To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.   **Skills** * Ability to read and interpret documents such as procedure manuals, general business correspondence and/or journals or government regulations * Ability to write routine reports and business correspondence * Ability to respond in writing to customer complaints, regulatory agencies or members of the business community * Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations, to customers, clients and other employees in the organization * Ability to research, analyze and make recommendations on business problems assigned by executive(s) * Ability to anticipate needs of executive and manage in advance of requests * Ability to read and understand budgets as well as basic accounting of expenses. Skilled user of Microsoft Office tools – specifically Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word   **Education and/or Experience**   * HS Diploma/GED or * AS/AA Degree or specialized training preferred * Minimum 6 years work experience as Senior Executive Assistant or equivalent job role                                                            _Equal Employment Opportunity Information: Simmons First National Corporation and its subsidiaries are committed to a policy of equal employment with respect to a person's race, color, religion, sex, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, covered veterans, military status, physical or mental disability or any other legally protected classifications._