Assistant / Executive Assistant to CEO

Executive Assistant to the Founder & CEO Location: UK – Hybrid / Flexible Working Contract: Permanent | Full-time Thomas & Co International is a growing, multi-award-winning tax and advisory firm supporting entrepreneurs, privately owned businesses, high-net-worth individuals and internationally mobile clients across the UK and overseas. As the firm continues to scale, we are looking for an exceptional Executive Assistant to provide direct, high-trust support to our Founder & CEO. The successful candidate will work as the Founder’s right hand across the full spread of his commercial, content and personal commitments. He has built one of the largest personal brands in the tax advisory space, reaching millions of views each month and landing him in entrepreneurial circles out of reach to most. This role provides direct, comprehensive support to the Founder across the full spread of his commercial and personal commitments. You will own his diary, travel and communications, coordinate across the firm’s commercial workstreams and content production, and act as a trusted gatekeeper for his time and standards. On any given week, you may be coordinating complex international travel, preparing briefing notes for a high-net-worth client meeting, supporting a podcast or speaking engagement, liaising with editors on content campaigns, and managing inbound requests from media, partners and prospective clients. The work spans operational, strategic and personal, and requires someone who can hold all of it with discretion, polish and pace. Own and manage the Founder’s diary, ensuring time is allocated effectively across commercial, content, partnership and personal commitments. • Coordinate complex domestic and international travel, including flights, accommodation, ground transport and full itineraries. • Coordinate across internal team members and external partners to keep commercial workstreams progressing on the Founder’s behalf. • Act as a key point of contact for high-profile clients, partners and brand collaborators, representing the Founder’s standards in every interaction. • Support the Founder’s content and personal brand operation, coordinating with editors, podcast hosts, event organisers and partnership brands. • Manage personal commitments, lifestyle administration, restaurant and event bookings, and ad-hoc personal tasks. • Significant experience as an Executive Assistant or Chief of Staff to a Founder, CEO or senior public-facing executive. • Track record supporting a Founder or principal who attracts inbound media, podcast, public speaking and investment opportunities is highly advantageous. • Highly commercially aware, with the capability to act and operate on the Founder’s behalf in commercial conversations and inbound opportunity discussions. • Demonstrated ability to manage complex domestic and international diary and travel logistics with precision. • Experience operating within high-net-worth, professional services or comparable environments such as luxury, finance or talent management is highly advantageous. • Excellent written communication, with strong drafting and proofreading skills. • Highly proficient with diary, productivity and project management tools (Google Workspace, Slack, Asana or equivalent). • Comfortable coordinating with content production teams (editors, videographers, podcast hosts) is advantageous. • Willingness to travel domestically and internationally as required, including to the Founder’s overseas base. • Personal Qualities: • Our approach combines financial reward, career progression and personal wellbeing to support our people in continued growth and development. Joining us means working directly alongside one of the most recognisable founders in UK tax advisory, with full visibility of the commercial, content and brand operation that has built Thomas & Co International into the firm it is today. Benefits Package: • Highly competitive base salary. • Life assurance cover. • An additional day’s leave for your birthday, plus a holiday buy-back scheme. • Hybrid and flexible working arrangements. • Clear opportunity for career progression in a fast-growing firm.