Executive Assistant

On our path to becoming the world’s favorite way to shop, we’re assembling an unparalleled global talent network, accelerating individual careers, and disrupting entire industries. We are on a mission to liberate humanity from all the meaningless time spent managing their purchases and finances, so they can do more of what they love. We’re in search of global talent eager to embrace our atmosphere and defy their own expectations.

As an Executive Assistant at Klarna, you will be responsible for anticipating, prioritizing, and organizing all activities with regards to the Executive you work with and other senior leader’s calendar’s, travel, and general work life. Also you will be helping out with administrative tasks within the domain, coordinating and administering around all different projects on the table.A normal EA job description would tell you the basics: managing day to day activities, coordinating calendar and travel, planning and scheduling events, maintaining budgets, and completing expense reports. To be clear, you’ll do that….but not just that. We want you to thrive and make a difference. We want you to understand our complex and rapidly changing organization, then add business value by bringing your voice to the table, asking hard questions, and giving insights where others may have missed something. You’ll anticipate needs, solve problems, and help us build and deliver amazing products and solutions.

• Supporting in various fields, such as calendars, scheduling events, coordinating domestic and international travel. 
• Additionally, you will have the opportunity to be involved in one-off projects and initiatives – generally you should be ready to contribute across the business and provide structure and organisation wherever possible.
• Willingness to travel

• Strong time management, process management, and productivity skills.
• Ability to quickly build a network/partnerships across the organisation.
• A strong service mindset.
• Quick on your feet.
• Analytical and like to work within Sheets (G-suite).
• A passion for administration done properly. 
• Be an expert in calendar management and knowing when to prioritise.
• A self-starter with a pragmatic approach – if you see something that needs fixing or support, you don’t hesitate to step in.
• Consistently and proactively suggest and introduce new ways of working to improve effectiveness, you are a team player and you love to work at a high pace.

• Previous experience in roles that require service skills and delivery towards short deadlines.
• Experience from administrative & logistic work tasks.
• Proven experience working with sensitive information.
• Excellent Google suit-skills.
• Fluency skills in verbal and written English.

What we offer:

Diversity & Community

With our diversity of skills, perspectives and backgrounds, we can create, innovate, and disrupt like no other. Diversity is part of who we are, and essential to our success.

Ownership & Impact

Here, every voice matters. We’re organized into hundreds of small teams, each run like a start-up, focused on their own problem-space.

Trust & Collaboration

Successes and failures are won together at Klarna in a melting pot of teams. Win, lose, and learn, we’re on this path together.

If you love what you do, you should love where you do it. We appreciate that everyone’s different and has their own preferences of where and how to work. We genuinely believe in the power of regular face-to-face interactions in building close connections with our teams, but we also strongly believe people can work effectively remotely. This means that combining both is the key to success. 

At Klarna, You can choose between working from the office, remotely within your employment country, or even outside of it for up to 20 working days per year. Flex it up!  

Challenges & Rewards

We take a very Swedish approach to benefits. Support for parents, health and wellness perks—we’ve got you covered.

About Klarna

Since 2005 Klarna has been on a mission to revolutionize the retail banking industry. With over 150 million global active users and 2 million transactions per day, Klarna is meeting the changing demands of consumers by saving them time and money while helping them be informed and in control. Over 450,000 global retail partners, including H&M, Saks, Sephora, Macys, IKEA, Expedia Group, and Nike have integrated Klarna's innovative technology to deliver a seamless shopping experience online and in-store. Klarna has over 6,000 employees and is active in 45 markets. For more information, visit Klarna.com

It is our commitment that every qualified person will be evaluated according to skills regardless of age, gender, identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability status or religion. Please refrain from including your picture and age with the application.