How much would you say this job is paying?

[forwhatyouare]

It's a PA role, my guess is it's in Canary Wharf, although I don't know for certain.

Anyone know what type of salary they'd offer?

hsbc.taleo.net/careersection/external/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en_GB&job=634443&src=JB-10502

Forgot to add, if people really think it's worth over £35K ( or 40K, shocked), then I have no place going for it

I'm on £23K at the moment! Low pay because NHS but even still. I can't just jump that high.

In the nicest possible way don’t be silly and don’t sell yourself short.

You’ve met their requirements so go for it if you want it. No bank will interview people for the sake of it to meet targets.

Based on your experience you absolutely could do that role. I did that role as my first proper job (assistant to the global directors PA at a slightly smaller company) and my prior experience had been temp work only. This is going back about 13 years now and yes things have changed, but I stand by my belief that you could do the role. The salary is tied to the role and to some degree they may offer a salary based on experience.

A friend of mine worked as a PA at HSBC in Canary Wharf and was on around £50K.

The role is reporting up to an Assistant not an Exec, so I'd say late 20k. I was a PA/EA in London for 8 years until earlier this year.

I got £36k in the city as a PA before I had DS and he's 14 next month. Pretty shocked that salaries haven't moved that much since then. I'd go for higher band jobs expressing how you've worked for difficult consultants and are used to the high pressure, fast pace, constantly changing deadlines.

Thanks to all that have commented, I really appreciate it 

I was shocked at how short their list of requirements for the role were. Something like 'ability to manage time well' and 'good on computers' were literally along the lines of what they were asking, and worded just as simply.

I have been selected to take their competency test. I completed it this evening. Fingers crossed!

I'd go for higher band jobs expressing how you've worked for difficult consultants and are used to the high pressure, fast pace, constantly changing deadlines.

It's a tricky one. Most seem to specifically ask for working for experience working for directors, CEO, etc. So before I can even explain that, it seems I'm out.

I've applied to a lot of them anyway since you don't really get PA roles like that within an NHS setting, they're extremely rare.

expressing how you've worked for difficult consultants

Would be better to talk about a "highly demanding work environment" so you don't criticise your current employers, not a good look.

I’ve worked at several other banks in Canary Wharf and have friends at HSBC. It’s definitely worth at least 35k plus bonus and benefits. As it’s a team assistant and not an executive assistant role I wouldn’t expect more than 40k basic but you never know. The bonus should be at least another 5k, maybe more as long as the bank’s performance is ok, benefits should include a good pension and private health.

Good luck, I got a similar job with nowhere near as good a CV as yours; I’d previously only worked as a receptionist.

@forwhatyouare hello, register with Joyce Guinness recruitment. You'll EASILY get a job in a private equity firm earning good money. And no I don't work for them but I have got a job through them and they have super connections in well paying industries. I'm always surprised what they can get. Also Angela Mortimer but our company always favours Joyce Guinness. I promise this isn't an advert!

And working for two consultants will look fab on a cv. And Joyce Guinness love that kind of thing you'll be right up their street!

And good luck with the interview, I'd say minimum £35-40k. And I agree with PP it's about the transferable skills you have, you'll be fab!

I'd think high 20s as a starting salary.

Most PA jobs are junior and will pay a max of 35k unless you can convince the recruiter to hire you as a contractor. Exec Assistants (ie those supporting the various CEOs) have more salary flexibility but unless you have years of financial services EA experience this means a cap of 40k.

I moved from being a med sec to another huge bank at Canary Wharf. I would think this job pays 32k - 35k? Plus bonus, private healthcare too maybe?

Thank you for the tipnoff about Joyce Guinness Nolou! I've sent my CV across to them.

It's interesting to see some people think the job is worth late 20s figure. I would guess the same (from a hunch), since it is reporting to the CEO's Executive Assistant. But it seems more of a 'side by side' role in most ways so by no means a 'junior PA' role.

I've attached the criteria they want a candidate to meet. It's extremely basic, I've seen more on a job paying £18K on the NHS. Shocking how much I'm currently doing for so little.

Once you move from the NHS you won’t want to go back.

Do you work in a dilapidated office with huge staffing gaps OP? You’ll love Banking - plush offices!

I'm a PA in a Private Equity firm and I'm on £36K & bonus and benefits. Finance traditionally pays much more than other sectors.

I used to work in a hospital in London that was built in the 1980s. I was out at the furthest corner of the site in what had been part of a Victorian fever hospital. The building was falling apart!

I went to an interview at the bank in Canary Wharf - it was a different world. Fresh coffee and posh biscuits served at the interview. Plush carpets! The White Company hand wash and moisturer in the loos. Another private bank had Jo Malone products in the loos.

Totally go for it. I'd assume that role would be around £50k. Don't ever doubt yourself and feel you can't apply just because of the pay jump. Walk in there like you deserve that role.

I'd also advise that when you get the role don't accept the amount they offer. Always let them know you have other offers. And I'd say ask for another 5k on top. But stress how much you can want to work there. The banks have money and the worst that can happen is they say no.

Oh and my former employer, of the big banks in Canary Wharf, hired a friend of mine as a switchboard operator with occasional reception cover paying 29k basic! So OP, if they ask you about salary at interview do not go in there and sell yourself short by saying you’d be happy with mid-20s. Anything not starting with a 3 would be way under market. And that doesn’t mean you’re not up to applying, you have a brilliant CV and just because a bank pays better than the NHS (shocker) doesn’t mean you’re not qualified. Good luck

@noloudnoises I used to temp for Joyce Guinness in uni holidays and got the most wonderful jobs through them in some really bonkers places. Loves them!

The thing is this, if I tell them I'm looking for around £32K, won't they just cancel the idea of hiring me all together if they weren't going to give that much?

Will they just say no and that's it, no further corespondent. They'll just accept we aren't on the same page and move onto someone else? 

Sorry, not sure about private sector. Within the NHS you'd get told where to go, essentially. There's always someone willing to do lots of duties for pittance in the NHS

*correspondence

forwhatyouare not at all, Private sector companies usually have a bracket figure in mind rather than a set salary, so before interview may say to each other 'right lets look at 28-38k depending on the person' so long as you sell yourself well, show them how you match their requirements, and confidently say for the role they are offering you would be looking at a min of x amount. also query their policies, pensions, bonus structure. It'll be a whole new world to you but it's fab.

I’ve unknowingly asked for more money then the bracket before- the normal response is to try to convince you how good the bonus/benefits are. It’s happened to me twice- once I still got an offer and turned it down, the other time I chose not to proceed to an in-person interview. But they’ve never ended proceedings as a result. Absolutely say that you’re looking for around 32k but that you would be interested to learn about their benefits and bonus scheme (they implies you’re open to negotiation). Banks like it when you value yourself!