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Job Description
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Symmetry is a business in build mode, evolving, growing, and redefining what investment solutions should look like.The successful incumbent will perform routine administrative duties such as drafting correspondences, scheduling appointments, organising and maintaining data, as well as assisting internal and external stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
Administration
- Produce, update, and provide best practice support on a wide range of Microsoft documents, databases, and other departmental systems.
- Travel bookings including flights, hotel/accommodation, cars/shuttles.
Business Meetings/Events Arrangement
- Schedule appointments, make arrangements for meetings and conferences, and organize travel plans, following instructions to ensure more senior colleagues or a senior executive make the best use of their time.
Correspondence
- Prepare routine letters, email, minutes of meetings, and reports for approval by more senior colleagues or a senior executive.
Document Preparation
- Prepare moderately complex documents using a variety of applications for technology devices, such as standard office software.
- Also responsible for gathering and summarizing data for reports.
Work Scheduling and Allocation
- Design own monthly schedule and, if necessary, assign work to others in order to speed up office workflow and ensure high-priority tasks get done.
Data Collection and Analysis
- Produce accurate reports for others by collecting data from a variety of standard sources and inputting it into standard formats.
Insights and Reporting
- Extract and combine data to generate standard reports.
Budgeting
- Monitor and analyze data using budgeting systems and protocols.
Personal Capability Building
- Develop and maintain excellent process or technical skills by participating in assessment and development planning activities as well as formal and informal training and coaching.
Operational Compliance
- Develop working knowledge of the organization's policies and procedures and of regulatory codes and codes of conduct relevant to own work, adhering to mandatory procedures to ensure own work is undertaken to the required standards.
Procurement
- Support others by carrying out simple procurement tasks. Involves following established procedures.
These responsibilities offer an overview and a general outline of the role and are not exhaustive.
Qualifications and Experience required:
- Matric & tertiary qualification (administration)
- At least 10 years PA or administration experience
- Service excellence
- Good communication skills
- Client centric
- Strong administrative skills
- Ability to handle stressful situations in a vibey dynamic team.
- Time management
Skills
Accounting, Action Planning, Budget Management, Calendar Coordination, Computer Literacy, Data Analysis, Database Reporting, Data Compilation, Data Interpretations, Executing Plans, Financial Acumen, Management Reporting, Numerical Aptitude, Oral Communications, Report ReviewCompetencies
Directs WorkDrives ResultsEnsures AccountabilityManages ComplexityOptimizes Work ProcessesPlans and AlignsTech SavvyEducation
NQF Level 3 & NQF Level 2 - Below school leavingClosing Date
17 March 2026 , 23:59The appointment will be made from the designated group in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Old Mutual South Africa and the specific business unit in question.
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What We Do
Old Mutual Limited is a listed company on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and has secondary listings on the London, Malawi, Namibia and Zimbabwe stock exchanges. As a Pan-African financial services company, we are focused on Africa, her needs and her people.
Together with you, we have educated our children, given more homes warmth and light, empowered small businesses and improved infrastructure in Africa. Our story will continue #WithAfricaForAfrica
