Executive Assistant to the CFO

Why this Executive Assistant to the CFO role exists

Quartz Executive Services is a Administrative & Office company of 180 people, founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, United States. Quartz places senior executive assistants, chiefs of staff and operations leads into venture-backed and PE-backed companies across North America and EMEA. The firm runs a proprietary assessment for scheduling judgement and confidentiality that is used by all placements. For this particular opening, the work is done from New York — full-time, hybrid — and reports into the administrative & office side of the business.

The useful question is not what the executive assistant to the cfo title means in general, but what Quartz Executive Services needs it to mean this year. The emphasis on 8+ years supporting C-suite executives, ideally a CFO and on own the cfo calendar and manage a rolling 90-day priority view is the answer. At senior level you will set direction inside your area, mentor others, and be judged as much on the decisions you prevent as the work you produce.

Employers in administrative & office are hiring for depth over breadth, and New York is one of the markets where that demand is concentrated. New York sits inside that picture: The US market rewards specialisation. Salary bands vary hugely by metro — a role in San Francisco or New York can pay 35-45% more than the same title in the Midwest, though cost of living usually absorbs the difference.

A week as a Executive Assistant to the CFO at Quartz Executive Services

Hybrid in New York typically settles into a rhythm: collaborative work compressed into office days, deep work protected at home. Ask how strictly that split is enforced before you plan a commute around it.

In practice the calendar of a executive assistant to the cfo here splits between the work itself, the conversations that unblock it, and maintenance of what already exists. The third slice is the one candidates underestimate at interview, and it is where a senior-level hire either earns trust in New York or does not.

Senior hires are given the benefit of the doubt for about a quarter. After that, a executive assistant to the cfo is expected to be improving how the work is done, not only doing it. Ask the hiring manager what "good" looks like at six months for this executive assistant to the cfo — a team that cannot answer that has not thought the role through.

What $110,000 – $145,000 really means here

The advertised range is $110,000 – $145,000, a spread of roughly 32% between floor and ceiling, with a midpoint near USD 127,500. In most structured pay systems the midpoint represents someone fully performing the role, the floor someone growing into it, and the ceiling a candidate who arrives with directly transferable, hard-to-hire experience — in this case, depth in 8+ years supporting C-suite executives, ideally a CFO.

United States averages $96,000 across advertised roles. For a senior-level executive assistant to the cfo in administrative & office, the relevant comparison is narrower: two or three live listings in New York for the same work. Pull them before any salary conversation so you are arguing from data, not from hope.

If the offer lands mid-band, the productive ask is not more money today but a defined review point: what 8+ years supporting C-suite executives, ideally a CFO evidence, by when, moves this executive assistant to the cfo post to the upper band. Employers say yes to that far more often than to a flat uplift.

Who gets hired as a Executive Assistant to the CFO

Shortlists for a role like this usually come down to five or six people who all meet the stated requirements. Evidence separates them. The strongest applications bring someone you mentored into being better at the job than you needed them to be, described plainly and without inflation.

Generic applications that could have been sent to any employer are the first ones filtered out. Tie every claim to something that happened, with a date, a number or a named outcome.

One tailored application to this executive assistant to the cfo post beats twenty generic ones. Mirror the language of the responsibilities section, reference Quartz Executive Services by what it actually does, and cut anything that could have been sent to another employer unchanged.

Preparing for the Quartz Executive Services interviews

Build a small bank of stories before the first call: one about 8+ years supporting C-suite executives, ideally a CFO under pressure, one about a disagreement you handled well, one about something you got wrong. Almost every question in a executive assistant to the cfo process is a variation on those three.

Research Quartz Executive Services specifically. Discreet, senior and highly organised. Every placement is backed by a named partner who stays involved through the first six months rather than handing off after signing. Tie that back to the executive assistant to the cfo brief: show how you would work inside it, not just that you read about it.

Relocating to New York

If you are moving to New York for this executive assistant to the cfo position, treat relocation as a project with its own timeline. Visa processing, housing, schooling and banking all run in parallel, and the one that slips is usually the one you started last.

Most employer sponsorship happens through H-1B (cap-subject, annual lottery), L-1 intracompany transfers, and O-1 for exceptional ability. Green-card sponsorship is common for senior healthcare and engineering roles.

For this specific listing: US work authorisation required. Health, dental, vision from day one plus 401(k) match up to 5%.

Ask which days are fixed, whether they are team-wide or personal choice, and how far the office is from the neighbourhoods you would realistically live in. A commute you can do twice a week is a very different decision from one you would do five times. None of this is awkward to ask; recruiters filling a executive assistant to the cfo post expect these questions from serious candidates.

Where a Executive Assistant to the CFO role leads next

A senior-level executive assistant to the cfo in administrative & office typically has two credible paths after two to four years: deeper specialisation, where 8+ years supporting C-suite executives, ideally a CFO becomes the thing the organisation relies on you for, or breadth, where you take on scope across more people and more surface area.

Neither is objectively better, but they reward different things. Ask how the last two people in this executive assistant to the cfo post progressed — the answer, and whether there is one, tells you a great deal about how Quartz Executive Services is run.

Quartz Executive Services operates in New York, London, Remote (US), which matters for a executive assistant to the cfo if internal mobility or a future move out of New York is part of your plan. Ask how often people actually transfer between those offices — the honest number is usually lower than the brochure suggests.