Executive Associate to Old Mutual Insure’s MD at Old Mutual

Job Description

Note: This is not a secretarial / personal assistant role and requires an individual with a relevant postgraduate degree.

This role provides support to the OM Insure Managing Director on key strategic projects and day to day deliverables. The role involves working closely with the MD, the OMI Exco and other key stakeholders both within and outside the broader Old Mutual Insure business. In this role, the Executive Associate will need to investigate and research business and people issues, strategic initatives and developments.

This role provides an 18 to 24 month development opportunity, building perspective of the OMI business.

Following the period as Executive Assistant, the candidate will be well positioned to move into a role within the Old Mutual Limited group, and will be supported in doing so, subject to acceptable performance.

Administration & Support

• Build and acquire a solid understanding of annual business planning and delivery cycles, including processes and outputs, and pro-actively coordinate for the MD.
• Performs administrative duties for the MD, including presentations, minutes and other tasks.
• Manage key OMI events, ensuring appropriate action planning and forward planning.
• Co-ordinates resources to gather information and may prepare first draft of various reports.
• Provide ad-hoc support on specific OMI projects as directed by the MD.
• Synthesize key information, and draft points of view and solutions for the MD, to aide in decision-making.
• Ensures that the MD is equipped with necessary documentation to proceed with meetings.
• Responsible for ensuring relevant matters are included on Exco agendas.
• Required to investigate and respond to various business-issues, client and stakeholder requests, strategic initiatives and developments etc. in a timeous, professional manner.
• Represents the MD on certain ad hoc projects, meetings and events as required.

Relationship Building

• Builds and maintains relationships with executives and senior management in OML and OMI
• High level of contact with external parties, stakeholders and clients as required.

Communication and Engagement

• Prepares reports and presentations for the MD.
• Leads the project management of key events on behalf of the MD.
• Communicating and escalating important issues appropriately.

Personal Effectiveness

• Accountable for service delivery through own efforts.
• Individually accountable for managing own time, tasks, and output quality.
• Makes increased contributions by broadening individual skills.
• Collaborates effectively with others to achieve personal results.
• Accepts and lives the company values.

Minimum Requirements

This role requires a flexible and self-driven person, comfortable with ambiguity and with a very strong can-do attitude. A high level of integrity, maturity and confidentiality is required. The successful candidate should have very strong communication, presentation, numerical and analytical skills are needed.

• An Honors or equivalent post graduate Degree.
• A keen interest in the financial Service industry.
• A minimum of 3 years work experience, preferably in a listed company or multinational corporate environment.
• Experience of working with senior level clients.
• Ability to manage complex and highly confidential information.
• Numerate, with the ability to present and analyse data.
• Excellent command of the English language, both in communication ability and in drafting skills.
• Knowledge of advanced MS office applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
• Excellent social skills, able to operate with diplomacy, tact and empathy.
• A high degree of personal organisation and self-management.
• Comfortable delivering within tight deadlines, which are liable to change at short notice.

Skills

Education

• Honours Degree (Hons) (Required)

Closing Date

• 27 September 2022