Executive Assistant to Managing Executive: Stakeholder Engagement at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Description

Key Accountabilities:

• Anticipatory and proactive approach to performing day-to-day administrative tasks to ensure efficiency and streamlined processes.
• To be totally in control of the running of the office by ensuring that all proactive and reactive diary requests are carried out promptly/friendlily and where reminders are needed, these are done timely and compassionately. 
• To ensure an up-to-date database of all details/documents which are key to the operations of the team.
• To diligently look for opportunities for synergies among the Stakeholder team and broader GMCA.
• To prepare necessary agendas/documentation for meetings
• Ensuring all travel requirements, where needed, are booked timeously, with itenaries/meetings done efficiently.
• To collaborate with GMCA peers to gain overall strategic insight and direction to forge the Stakeholder team’s intra-GMCA synergies.
• To efficiently manage stakeholder expectations for optimum outcomes; these include both internal and external stakeholders, all of whom are highly valued given their role in the sustainability of Absa Group.
• Speed and precision (quality of work) form the foundational cultures that have to be upheld all the time.
• Impeccable interpersonal skills and great work ethic are an absolute must.
• To ensure that all our stakeholders receive best experience consistently.
• To offer the rest of the team support whenever it is necessary.
• To maintain the highest level of quality in all work prepared and presented.
• To ensure that information is checked for accuracy and verified.
• To maintain highest levels of confidentiality at all times.
• To complete tasks timeously and communicate effectively where there are challenges in meeting deadlines and being innovative in finding ingenious solutions to crises. 
• Store files and emails in a manner that facilitate retrievability and operationalization.

Education

• Higher Diplomas: Office Administration (Required)