Personal Assistant for ABSA | Onsite JHB

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 SummaryWe are looking for a seasoned professional that is always 2 steps ahead, to deliver executive assistant support to the Executives in Trade and the team to execute the strategic priorities designed to enhance the Trade and Working Capital strategy. You will 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 also 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 itineraries 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:

• Completing 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)