About Deloitte

Deloitte is the largest private professional services network in the world. Every day, approximately 220,000 professionals in more than 150 countries demonstrate their commitment to a single vision: to be the standard of excellence, while working towards one purpose – to make an impact that matters.

In South Africa, Deloitte is one of the leading professional services organisations, specialising in providing Audit, Tax, Consulting, Risk Advisory and Corporate Finance services. We serve clients in a variety of industries from financial services, to consumer business, energy, mining and manufacturing, tourism and the public sector, and we provide powerful business solutions to some of the world's most well-known and respected companies, including more than 80 percent of the Fortune 100.

Our professionals are unified by a collaborative culture that fosters integrity, outstanding value to markets and clients, commitment to each other, and strength from cultural diversity. They are dedicated to strengthening corporate responsibility, building public trust, and making a positive impact in their communities. We understand that our professionals hold interests outside of the workspace and we aim to encourage work/life balance, supporting them in all aspects of their lives.

Our talented professionals and our clients understand the link between a strong learning and development programme and the ability for Deloitte to deliver on its promise of consistent, high-quality service delivery worldwide.

Whatever your age, gender or culture, take your career to the next level with the talents and capabilities you'll develop at Deloitte.

About the Division 

It takes a high-powered network of internal support professionals to keep Deloitte going strong.

The internal services function provides a wide variety of support services to our organisation and people.

Rewarding career opportunities are available in:

*Human resources

*Information technology

*Marketing and Communications

*Financial support services, and much more.

As with all the functions in Deloitte, a core set of competencies is associated with each internal service area. An overall understanding of value-added client service, the experience to work in multifunctional and cross-border teams, strong business acumen, and the instinct to think and act globally are essential for advancement within Internal Client Services.

We are committed to establishing and empowering the firm by establishing an environment of continuous learning and enriching career opportunities.

What impact will you make?

Every day, your work will make an impact that matters, while you thrive in a dynamic culture of inclusion, collaboration and high performance. As the undisputed leader in professional services, Deloitte is where you will find unrivalled opportunities to succeed and realize your full potential.

What you will do? 

Under minimum supervision, project manage the full proposals life cycle, coupled with managing an efficient and effective client administrative function for Partners and Stakeholders.

Key Performance Areas:

Proposals:

• Project management of full proposal process
• Gaining and sharing proposals best practice from across the firm
• Quality and compliance checks
• Works on proposals from all service lines
• Compilation of proposal documentation – formatting of content, sourcing of content etc.
• Completion of all public sector compliance documentation and co-ordination of public sector proposals.
• Co-ordination of proposal team, meetings, timelines etc.
• Briefs and liaises with the designers
• Formatting and DTP for documents that don’t go into studio

Client Administration

• Support partners and other colleagues in driving opportunities on assigned Western Cape top tier clients through operating effective client administration processes.
• For each account, create and administer client account plans and processes to support the Lead Partner
• Management Information and reporting
• Keep track of account activity, drive operating rhythm of the account and manage communication with the client service team
• Ensure the firm has properly researched, collated and disseminated information/data about client and their business to ensure opportunities are identified and followed up across all Lines of Service.
• Identify potential client implications of industry trends or business issues
• Be knowledgeable about our history with the client, including key engagements, investments and milestones

Key Competencies required / Talent Standards Capabilities:

Leadership Capabilities

• Living our Purpose - Identifies and embraces our purpose and values and puts these into practice in their professional life
• Influence - Builds relationships and communicates effectively in order to positively influence peers and other stakeholders
• Performance drive - Seeks opportunities to challenge self; teams with others across businesses and borders to deliver and takes accountability for own and team results
• Strategic direction - Understands objectives for clients and Deloitte, aligns own work to objectives and sets personal priorities
• Talent development - Develops self by actively seeking opportunities for growth, shares knowledge and experiences with others, and acts as a strong brand ambassador

Core Professional Technical Capabilities

• Technical expert in specific functional area
• Demonstrated capability in interaction at all levels, briefing, analysis and project management skills
• Experience in drafting and delivering presentations
• Good report writing skills
• Sound financial knowledge and understanding

Core Professional Behavioural Capabilities

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Good interpersonal and relationship building skills
• Mentorship and coaching ability with desire to develop self and others
• Strong client delivery focus
• Adaptable, managing change and ambiguity with ease
• Focus on quality and risk
• Problem solving ability
• Good business acumen

*Please note that this job advertisement provides a summary of the capabilities required and all candidates shortlisted will receive a full list of capabilities.

Qualifications and Experience Required

• Degree essential
• Min 7 years’ working experience within the relevant function of which at least 5 years’ within a professional services firm

Preferred

• Postgraduate qualification (relevant to Service Area / Business Management)