About Deloitte
Deloitte provides audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services to public and private clients spanning multiple industries. With a globally connected network of member firms in more than 150 countries, Deloitte brings world-class capabilities and high-quality service to clients, delivering the insights they need to address their most complex business challenges. Deloitte has approximately 457,000 professionals all committed to becoming the standard of excellence of professional services firms.
Deloitte’s professionals are dedicated to strengthening corporate responsibility, building public trust, and making a positive impact in their communities, and enjoy an environment of continuous learning, challenging experiences, and enriching career opportunities. All our professionals are united by our shared values, a set of core principles that guide our collective behavior. They set the expectations we have for one another and define how we, as stewards of Deloitte, should behave. They provide common ground to unite us across cultures and geographies. And, importantly, they help us to earn the trust and respect of our key stakeholders. Our shared values are lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact.
Deloitte East Africa provides seamless cross-border services to multinationals, large national enterprises, small and medium sized enterprises, and the public sector; with offices in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Malawi, and in the process of expanding our operations by re-opening an office in Ethiopia.
A career with Deloitte offers you the opportunity to engage with and work alongside leading corporations within the East African region, and an opportunity to start and grow your career within a dynamic and rewarding environment. You will get the support, coaching and training needed to advance your career in Kenya and within the East Africa market.
What impact will you make?
At Deloitte we have a clear purpose, to make an impact that matters to our clients, our colleagues, and our communities. From professional development to leadership opportunities and career advancement, we empower our people to be their very best – because that’s how you make an impact.
About the Department
Deloitte East Africa’s Executive Office has a well-versed team uniquely positioned to support the strategic agenda of our clients in the key domains of growth, business improvement & optimization, and strategic transformation. The wide spectrum of capabilities, thought leadership and experience are underpinned by the Deloitte platform of executable strategy and innovation for growth. Our unique strategic planning approach and capability allows executive teams to understand the future and create growth and aspirational viewpoints about the possibility in their markets and organizations.
We currently have an exciting opportunity for a dynamic person to join our Deloitte East Africa Team in the Office of the Chief Executive Officer (OCEO) as an Executive Assistant. This position will be based in our Nairobi office in Kenya.
Main purpose of the job
Reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chief of Staff, the Executive Assistant filters and attends to the day-to-day functions that are part of the Chief Executive’s role so that the Executive can focus on the high-level leadership and strategy functions of the firm.
What you will do
Admin and Project Management:
- Manage the CEO’s calendar scheduling.
- Work with the Chief of Staff to manage the CEO’s agenda and organize key meetings on behalf of the CEO.
- Support meeting management, including preparing agendas, attending to meeting logistics, travel arrangements and recording minutes.
- Assist with business reporting and analysis as required, supporting the Chief of Staff. This may be internal analysis as required by leadership, or for Africa and Global reporting requirements.
- Manage department supply inventory, including stationary, branded gear and OCEO amenities.
- Responsible for OCEO administrative tasks, including printing, submitting expense reports and managing invoices.
- Maintain OCEO records and manage document repository on MS Teams.
Stakeholder Management and Strategic Communications
- Support Chief of Staff with drafting and sending key communications on behalf of the CEO, including drafting official letters, emails and presentations.
- Drive external stakeholder management alongside Chief of Staff, including maintaining a client contact list for the CEO, setting up meetings, providing reference material ahead of client engagements and manage risk logistics related to external engagements i.e., BRMS.
- Play a key role in the coordination of staff engagements alongside the Chief of Staff, including town halls, CEO office hours, drink-ups, induction meetings etc.
- Support OCEO strategic initiatives as required.
Qualifications
- A Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field.
- Computer proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel).
- At least 5 years of relevant work experience working in a corporate environment.
Behavioural competencies
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Effective interpersonal and relationship building/people management skills.
- Adaptable, managing change and ambiguity with ease.
- Strong organizational and time management.
- Good networking skills.
- Emotional intelligence.
- Comfort interacting with high-level executives.
- Detail oriented.
- Project management skills.
- Proactive and solution oriented.
- Ability to multi-task.
Your role as a leader
At Deloitte we believe in the importance of leadership at all levels. We expect our people to embrace and live our purpose by challenging themselves to identify issues that are most important for our clients, our people, and for society and make an impact that matters.
Leadership Capabilities
Living our Purpose – Builds own understanding of our purpose and values; explores opportunities for impact.
Influence – Actively focuses on developing effective communication and relationship-building skills.
Performance drive – Understands expectations and demonstrates personal accountability for keeping performance on track.
Strategic direction – Understands how their daily work contributes to the priorities of the team and the business.
Talent development – Demonstrates strong commitment to personal learning and development; acts as a brand ambassador to help attract top talent.
Why Deloitte?
At Deloitte, our professional development plan focuses on helping people at every level of their career to identify and use their strengths to do their best work every day. From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe there is always room to learn. We offer opportunities to help build world-class skills in addition to hands-on experience in the global, fast-changing business world.
Deloitte opens the door to a career that can cross borders virtually and physically across the African continent, and globally to gain experience and access projects beyond our borders. We value differences, and embrace people with diverse backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and thinking styles.
Our purpose
Deloitte is led by one purpose: to make an impact that matters. Every day, Deloitte people are making a real impact in the places they live and work. We pride ourselves on doing not only what is good for clients, but also what is good for our people and the communities in which we live and work—always striving to be an organization that is held up as a role model of quality, integrity, and positive change. Learn more about Deloitte’s impact on the world: #Makinganimpactthatmatters.
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If you meet the above requirements, please visit our website and apply online: Deloitte East Africa Careers portal.
Your details will be treated with confidentiality and will not be shared with any third party.
Closing date: Friday, 15 November 2024
