Absa Group

Executive Assistant


PayCompetitive
LocationJohannesburg/Gauteng
Employment typeFull-Time

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  • Job Description

      Req#: R-15958719

      Bring your possibility to life! Define your career with us

      With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

      Job Summary

      We are looking for a seasoned professional that is always 2 steps ahead, to deliver executive assistant and business management support to the Managing Executive P&R COE and the team. In this role you will execute the strategic priorities designed to enhance the P&R COE’s strategy.
      You will also be a crucial part of a business area that delivers against very specific strategic imperatives for Absa and your role will be responsible for streamlining administrative operations and business management and also to coordinate efforts by individual members of the team.

      Job Description

      Your key accountabilities will include;

      Administrative Activities:

      • Planning and organizing
      • Performing day-to-day administrative tasks as required, ensuring efficiency, improving processes and being proactive
      • Co-ordinate meetings where required and prepare the necessary agendas or documentation for meetings
      • Managing financial administrative processes and procedures end to end
      • Providing business management support as required

      Diary and Travel Management:

      • Proactively manage the diary of the Managing Executive
      • Ensuring all travel requirements where needed are booked timeously, with preparing of any itenaries or meetings done efficiently
      • Provide support to rest of the team where required

      Stakeholder Engagement:

      • Taking responsibility for managing the expectations of stakeholders, ensuring a positive stakeholder experience

      Collaboration and Networking:

      • Work with peers and colleagues to gain insights into new ways of work
      • Enabling team success

      Quality Assurance, Verifying Information and Maintaining High Levels of Confidentiality:

      • Maintain a desired level of quality in all work prepared and presented
      • Ensuring information is checked for accuracy and verified
      • Maintain confidentiality at all times

      Meeting deadlines/Innovation/Solutioning:

      • Completes tasks timeously and communicated effectively where there are challenges in meeting deadlines and being innovative in solutioning where there are challenges

      Send us your CV if you have;

      • A relevant Diploma / Degree
      • 3-5 years in an Executive Assistant/Team Assistant role as well as dealing with Financial Admin Processes
      • Proficient in Word/Excel/Powerpoint

      Education

      Higher Diplomas: Office Administration (Required)

      Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

      Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

  • About the company

      Absa Group Limited, and originally Amalgamated Banks of South Africa, is a South African-based financial services group, offering personal and business banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking, wealth and investment management, as well a...