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PwC Administrative / Secretarial Jobs in South Africa


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Job Description & Summary

At PwC, our people in business services and support focus on providing efficient and effective administrative support to enable smooth operations within the organisation. This includes managing schedules, coordinating meetings, and handling confidential information.


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Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include, but are not limited to:

  • Apply a learning mindset, take ownership of your development, and share and adopt best practices to continuously upskill yourself and others.
  • Professionally conduct yourself and take responsibility for your work and commitments.
  • Actively listen, check your understanding, interpret and respond appropriately.
  • Tailor your communication style and method based on your audience.
  • Organise and prioritise information and tasks to achieve efficient and effective outcomes.
  • Suggest new ideas or solutions when problems and/or opportunities arise.
  • Adapt to meet the changing needs, processes and assignments of your teams and/or clients.
  • Learn and apply professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), uphold the Firm's code of conduct and independence requirements.

About the role

To provide an efficient and accurate executive, administrative and operational support service to the Banking department and partner/s for the smooth operation of the business. At the Administrative level, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Professionally conduct oneself and take responsibility for work and commitments.

• Flex approach to meet the changing needs of teams and clients.

• Identify and make suggestions for improvements when problems and/or opportunities arise.

• Learn about how business needs are changing and consider the impact on services provided.

• Take action to stay current with new and evolving technology.

• Handle, manipulate and analyse data and information responsibly.

• Communicate with empathy and adapt communication style to meet the needs of the

situation and audience.

• Anticipate the needs of others and take appropriate action.

Description

Embrace different points of view and welcome opposing and conflicting ideas.

• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Essential skills and experience

• Minimum 5 years of administrative support within a professional services firm


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Required qualifications

Matric

• Bookkeeping / Executive secretarial diploma

Desirable skills or attributes

Microsoft Office

• Preparation of professional correspondence

• Preparation of executive packs and presentations

• Ability to communicate with high-level individuals.

Responsibilities

Diary Management for Partners 

• Setting up of meetings and minute taking

• Completion of time and expense claims for Partners

• Travel bookings – flights, accommodation, and car hire (local and international)

• Compilation and typing of proposals, presentations, and general correspondence

• Other ad hoc personal tasks for the directors

• Co-ordinate team events/ meetings/Provide administrative support to Associate Directors/Senior Managers, and Managers within the Banking teams

Operations Support

Downloading of engagement risk reports for the team - circulating and attending to queries

raised

•Running of Job Costing reports for the line of service leader and providing any other

information as required

• Combine the report month-end and present to Management

• Send out YTD utilisation report, month-end

• Attending resource requests from other offices – eg, Stock count requests

• Resolving conflicts on jobs from the Talent Link perspective

• Running of Reports about Talent Link:

Provide some admin support to ADs


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• Meet and orient new joiners to the firm and the team

• Process contractors' invoices (submit time on Oracle, complete requisition and send to

finance for payment)

• Client Billing requests are made  when required to

• Credit notes when required to

• Ensure payments are made for membership and training fees

 

 

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