Executive Assistant at Josiah Fidel Consulting

Job Overview

Location
Lagos, Lagos
Job Type
Full Time
Date Posted
2 years ago

Additional Details

Job ID
76443
Job Views
326

Job Description



Job description


Provides administrative support at an executive level to the CEO. Handling office-management duties, making travel arrangements, handling calendar events, organizing reports and documents, answering phone calls, setting up meetings, screening visitors, scheduling; reviewing, prioritizing and responding to emails; answering and returning phone calls; organizing documents; maintaining records; taking notes at meetings and any other administrative tasks that help the CEO perform her duties effectively, and similar duties.


Job Responsibilities



  • Providing high-quality support to the CEO.

  • Managing and ensuring the smooth running of the CEO’s affairs such as organizing, scheduling, and maintaining information in an efficient way.

  • Managing the schedules to enhance effective time management and coordinates activities, prioritizes appointments and reschedules where necessary.

  • Managing, prioritizing, screening, and monitoring the CEO correspondence, including calls, emails, post, and fax to ensure they are dealt with appropriately.

  • Collecting and researching information on assigned matters.

  • Producing reports and statistical analyses as per the request of the manager.

  • Acting as the point of contact among executives, employees, clients and other external partners.

  • Managing information flow in a timely and accurate manner.

  • Managing executives’ calendars and set up meetings.

  • Making travel and accommodation arrangements.

  • Organizing and maintaining the office filing system.

  • Using analytical techniques in Excel to generate reports and perform analysis to provide insight into key decisions on price, cost, and return on investment.

  • Automating reporting where possible to ensure up to the minute information is available across the business.

  • Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications.

  • Perform administrative duties and functions requiring confidentiality, initiative, and sound decisionmaking.

  • Plan, schedule and coordinate meetings and all associated logistics, department and off-site meetings, external group other events.

  • Coordinate travel arrangements for the Executives and process expense reports.

  • Prepare agendas, make copies, set up room, coordinate with speakers, take, and type notes, order/pick up/layout refreshments, etc.

  • Maintain confidentiality of all appropriate communications and documentation.

  • Provide administrative assistance for the office to include filing, scanning, drafting letters, data entry and other misc. duties.

  • Assist with preparing and processing reports

  • Establish hard copy and electronic files as required

  • Additional duties as assigned


Qualifications



  • The ideal candidate possesses a B.Sc. in a relevant field

  • Preferred Experience: 3+ or more year’s relevant administrative experience in an executive support/role at a high corporate level.

  • Prioritizes tasks and meets deadlines with minimal supervision. Strong problem-solving.

  • Independently explores and learns about the company, the role and how to get things done in a complex environment.

  • Strong team player. Collaborates well with other staff. Willing to chip in and help in other areas.

  • Experience and skill creating and organizing presentations and reporting for executive audience. Interviewing Skills, Professionalism, Organization, Teamwork.

  • Excellent organizational and planning skills with attention to detail.

  • Strong organizational and time management skills to stay on top of time sensitive projects and urgent requests, requiring a high level of flexibility and ability to execute quickly.

  • Thinks ahead, minimizing potential problems. Proactive in identifying areas to improve.

  • Effective verbal and written communication skills.

  • Communicates openly and directly. Adjusts communication to level of audience. Responds professionally.

  • Ability to handle highly confidential and technical material.

  • Ability to work efficiently and handle multiple projects and tasks concurrently, in a fast-paced environment.

  • Takes initiative to learn new systems and stay current in area of expertise.

  • Knowledge of general office procedures (e.g., filing, correspondence, scheduling, expenses, calendar)

  • Willingness and ability to provide excellent service to our managers and staff.


Competencies



  • Proficient PC skills to include Microsoft applications (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and other

  • business enterprise systems).

  • Ability to work with High Speed and Accuracy


Qualities



  • hardworking

  • ⁠trustworthy

  • ⁠ability to learn

  • ⁠work under pressure

  • ⁠broad and transferrable knowledge


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