What are the responsibilities and job description for the Legal Administrative Coordinator position at American Century Investments?
Our Firm
American Century Investments® is a leading global asset manager focused on delivering investment results and building long-term client relationships while supporting research that can improve human health and save lives. Founded in 1958, the firm’s 1,400 employees serve financial professionals, institutions, corporations, and individual investors, offering a wide range of investment strategies across a variety of investment disciplines.
We are committed to providing institutional-quality, actively managed solutions with a performance-centered mindset. Our expertise spans global growth equity, global value equity, disciplined equity, multi-asset strategies, global fixed income, alternatives, and ETFs.
Privately controlled and independent, we focus solely on investment management. This empowers us to align our decisions with client expectations and concentrate on their long-term money management needs.
Our culture of winning behaviors exemplifies our dedication to clients every single day. Delivering investment results enables us to distribute over 40% of our dividends—more than $1.8 billion — to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, a 500-person, non-profit basic biomedical research organization with a controlling interest in American Century Investments. Our dividend payments provide ongoing financial support for the Institute’s work of uncovering the causes, treatments, and prevention of life-threatening diseases, like cancer.
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The primary responsibility of the Legal Administrative Coordinator is to provide organizational and administrative support for the Compliance and Internal Audit teams, as well as support of department projects as assigned.
Major Responsibilities:
Administrative support for the Compliance and Internal Audit teams. General administrative duties include: composing and revising documents, helping streamline processes, finding efficiencies in processes, processing invoices, coordinating travel arrangements, travel and expense reporting, meeting coordination, calendar updates and seminar registrations. Project assignments include completing specific projects assigned by manager and Compliance and Internal Audit team members.
Distinguishing Characteristics:
- Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communications
- Highly motivated self-starter
- Ability to determine priorities, plan, organize and follow through on assignments
- Proactive approach to support
- Provide support with a positive and helpful attitude
- Dedication to quality with a focus on timeliness and attention to detail
- Ability to work independently and as a member of a team
- Ability to maintain high confidentiality
- Technical proficiency, knowledge of office software and quick adaptability to new tools like Microsoft Copilot for increased productivity
Education & Experience:
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree or any equivalent combination of education and work experience
- Three to five years administrative experience
- Strong skills in Microsoft Office tools, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Visio and Outlook
- Models the American Century Investments Winning Behaviors: Client Focused, Courageous and Accountable, Collaborative, Curious and Adaptable, and Competitively Driven
- Adheres to the highest ethical standards and business practices and supports a culture of compliance
Additional Requirements:
Employees are required to be in the office on a scheduled frequency. Adherence to this schedule is essential to fulfilling the expectations of the role.
American Century Investments is committed to complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act and all other applicable Equal Employment Opportunity laws and regulations. As such, American Century strives to provide a reasonable accommodation to any qualified individual under the ADA to perform essential job functions.
American Century Investments believes all individuals are entitled to equal employment opportunity and advancement opportunities without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age for individuals forty years of age and older, military and veteran status, sexual orientation, and any other basis protected by applicable federal, state and local laws. ACI does not discriminate or adopt any policy that discriminates against an individual or any group of individuals on any of these bases.
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