Africa Talent by Deloitte - DK - Executive Assistant
- Full-time
- Service Line: Risk Advisory
Company Description
About Africa Talent
Africa Talent by Deloitte (Africa Talent) is a standalone division of Deloitte, owned by Deloitte Africa and Deloitte Netherlands, based in South Africa. Our goal is to meet the growing demand for Talent in Africa and Europe; by recruiting and developing Talent throughout Sub Saharan Africa in order to service the diverse needs to enable projects at our clients. Talent employed will have the full experience of Deloitte, while getting both local and international exposure to a diverse set of clients, working remotely from Africa. It will take advantage of the demographic reality of Africa as a future source of talent for both Africa and Europe and at its core is the goal to create employment in Africa and invest in African talent.
The ethos of our organisation is characterised by vision, purpose beyond profit and an appetite to innovate and deliver creative, high impact solutions to urgent client challenges.
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 – Africa Talent - is where you will find unrivalled opportunities to succeed and realize your full potential.
This space is a true encapsulation of hybrid work, whereby individuals and teams gain access and exposure to learn from and engage with their global colleagues, while working virtually from their local Deloitte office or from home.
What’s in it for you?
• An ever dynamic and growing internal scaleup with a purpose
• The stability and trustworthiness of a purpose driven global brand, ready to build your own future and add to Africa’s prosperity
• Being the driver of Africa Talent’s day-to-day operations
• A competitive package of benefits
• A hybrid work environment with possibility to work at home some days
• A driven and ambitious team that looks to you for making the team tick
Climate change is widely recognised to be a major global issue, requiring urgent corporate and governmental action in terms of emissions reductions and rapid decarbonisation leading up to 2050. As a consultant, you will help shape the Sustainability practice by sharing your risk management, GHG accounting and industry experience across a diverse range of clients, helping our clients navigate the energy transition and meet their decarbonization priorities. In addition to working on client projects, you will support in preparing proposals, client meetings workshops, research and articles. We value innovative thinking and diverse insights, inspiring growth within our practice and input into the wider ecosystem at Deloitte. Your contribution will allow immense personal growth, while helping the sustainability practice evolve to meet the future needs of our clients.
Job Description
Africa Talent seeks to employ individuals who will provide an effective and efficient administrative and secretarial support service to 4 to 5 Partners/directors/Senior managers within the Denmark firm. The successful incumbent requires the ability to multi-task, maintain the highest level of confidentiality and possess strong project management skills.
• Independently organizing and performing secretarial and administrative work for internal clients.
• Performing the work in accordance with the Management Support Service catalogue and Deloitte and/or Business Support and operations procedures and guidelines.
• Actively maintaining contacts with the various internal clients, with which the contact is aimed at understanding them and professionally supporting them with secretarial and administrative work.
• Actively setting up and maintaining a network within the relevant businesses of Deloitte Denmark for which the employee is working and the Executive Assistant team of which the employee is part of.
• Actively setting up and maintaining a network of relevant stakeholders at external Deloitte clients, to which internal clients provide services.
• Actively identifying points for improvement and discussing them with the Denmark Team Lead.
Qualifications
• Professional and intellectual ability at senior vocational education
• 3 - 5 years of work experience, depending on relevancy of experience and level of education
• Strong operational IT system skills and a high degree of proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Thinking and working with the client in mind
• Focused on collaboration and being able to communicate effectively at various levels, both internally and externally
• Excellent command of English
Additional Information
We are always interested in talking with professionals about their next career experience. If you have a passion for learning from talented people and benefit from the support of a global organisation and network, apply online now.
If you believe that you meet most of the criteria above, we encourage you to apply. Deloitte is an equal opportunities employer and will ensure any reasonable accommodations are implemented as part of the recruitment and selection process.
At Africa Talent by Deloitte, we want everyone to feel they can be themselves and to thrive at work—in every country, in everything we do, every day. We aim to create a workplace where everyone is treated fairly and with respect, including reasonably accommodating persons with disabilities. We seek to create and leverage our diverse workforce to build an inclusive environment across the African continent.
At Deloitte, we want everyone to feel they can be themselves and to thrive at work—in every country, in everything we do, every day. We aim to create a workplace where everyone is treated fairly and with respect, including reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. We seek to create and leverage our diverse workforce to build an inclusive environment across the African continent.