Viking Global Investors LP is a global investment firm founded in 1999. We manage more than $48 billion of capital for our investors across public equity, private equity, and credit and structured capital investment strategies. We have more than 275 employees and offices in Stamford, New York, Hong Kong, London, and San Francisco.
JOB FUNCTION
The Strategic Initiatives Assistant will provide administrative and project support to three professionals, including the Head of Strategic Initiatives. This position requires a candidate who is enthusiastic about and excels in a support role, with a keen attention to detail and excellent written and verbal communication skills. The individual will work collaboratively with other assistants and team members across the firm, including employees based in other offices. This role reports into the Head of Strategic Initiatives.
Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:
- Dynamic, high-volume scheduling: Proactively manage multiple calendars, anticipate, and resolve any scheduling conflicts or overlaps.
- Strategic thinking and judgment: Consider requests and goals with prioritization and balance in mind.
- Real-time communication: Proactively communicate with all stakeholders to ensure agreement and understanding of calendar commitments.
- Attention to detail: Precision mindset around meeting timing, participants, and locations, including whether meetings should take place in person, online, or in a hybrid model.
- Project work and operational assistance: Assist with project work, as directed by the Head of Strategic Initiatives, accurately, efficiently, and, at times, collaboratively with individuals on other teams across the firm to ensure seamless execution and advance strategic priorities.
- Efficiency: Facilitate and process requests with efficiency; meet deadlines.
- Confidentiality: Work with and safeguard professional and personal confidential material, displaying the utmost level of discretion and ethical standards.
- Expense reports: Prepare monthly expense reports, maintaining records and ensuring compliance with firm policies.
- Personal assistance: Light personal assistance (e.g., scheduling appointments).
- Back-up coverage: Provide back-up coverage for other Vikings.
QUALIFICATIONS
The ideal candidate will have:
- Recent undergraduate degree with a record of academic success and up to four years of experience with administrative and project work in a fast-paced, dynamic industry.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Meticulous about detail and accuracy; passion for organization.
- Proactive problem-solver; anticipate and address needs dynamically.
- Team-orientation, within and across Viking.
- Nimble approach; ready ability to handle evolving schedules and requirements.
- Strong Microsoft Office suite (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel) skills.
The base salary range for this position in New York City is $75,000 to $110,000. In addition to base salary, Viking employees may be eligible for other forms of compensation and benefits, such as a discretionary bonus, 100% coverage of medical and dental premiums, and paid lunches. Actual compensation for successful candidates will be individually determined based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, a candidate’s skill set, experience, education, and other qualifications. For more information on our benefits, please visit www.vikingglobal.com/life-at-viking/
Viking is an equal opportunity employer. Questions about your candidacy and requests for reasonable accommodation in the recruitment process should be directed to [email protected].
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What We Do
V iking Global Investors LP (“Viking”) is a global investment firm founded in 1999. We employ a fundamentals-driven investment approach to managing over $40 billion of capital across long/short, long-only, public/private hybrid and private-only strategies. Across our funds, our primary goal is to provide investors with best-in-class performance. We believe operational excellence is essential to our management of the capital with which we have been entrusted. We have approximately 240 employees, including 52 investment professionals, across five offices: Greenwich, New York, Hong Kong, London and San Francisco. We seek to attract people who exhibit our Firm’s core values of intellectual honesty, analytical rigor, continuous improvement, individual accountability and integrity. Viking is registered as an investment adviser with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
