Executive Assistant

Job description / Role

Why PwC Consulting?
A career in Consulting will provide you with the opportunity to make a difference at PwC by joining a community of solvers combining human ingenuity, experience and technology innovation to deliver sustained outcomes and build trust. You will apply and scale your strengths to drive the Firm’s strategy forward, creating a unique people experience for each individual, and supporting our Firm-wide values and success in the marketplace.

Role Summary:
A career in Administration and Secretarial Services within the Consulting Line of Service will give you the opportunity to provide administrative support to the PwC leadership team. You’ll use business software applications to prepare reports, receive and direct incoming calls or emails to the appropriate parties, arrange business travel, track expenses, and coordinate meeting arrangements.

Responsibilities:
Supporting the firm’s Chief Executive Officer the Executive Assistant’s responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, providing superior administrative support when performing the following duties:

• Manage CEO’s diaries, and personal affairs and respond to inquiries
• Proactively prepare correspondence in accordance with firm standards
• Prepare reports, presentations, dashboards, and proposals and complete various other ad hoc projects
• Organize team communications and plan events, both internally and offsite
• Maintain documents and control access to internal databases
• Maintain professionalism and strict confidentiality with all information, and exercise discretion when interfacing with the business
• Research, collect, organize and distribute information for internal and external meetings
• Take and transcribe minutes of meetings
• Coordinate executive seminars, business meetings, and travel arrangements

Requirements

• 9 +years’ experience in an administrative role
• Bachelor’s Degree in a related administrative field.
• Proficiency in spoken and written English. Arabic is a plus.
• Experience with a professional services firm preferred
• Excellent planning and organizational skills with the ability to successfully adapt to changing priorities
• Ability to compose and produce grammatically correct correspondence
• Prioritize and share multiple workloads between different levels of management
• Pleasant manner and ability to work harmoniously with a multicultural environment
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and other office productivity tools, with an aptitude to learn new software and systems
• Flexible team player willing to do what it takes to get the job done; adaptable and enjoys a challenge

About the Company

At PwC Middle East, we've set out an ambitious purpose and strive to live it everyday: to solve important problems and build trust in society.

We're a community of solvers that come together in unexpected ways to build trust and create sustained outcomes. We solve important problems, support one another as we grow, develop and build fulfilling careers.

PwC provides industry-focused services for public and private clients across Assurance and Audit, Deals, Consulting, Tax and Legal. We draw on our development legacy that brings together the collective experience of over 7,000 people in our region with offices across 12 countries to solve for tomorrow.

We're striving to consistently deliver innovative work that builds trust and delivers sustained outcomes. And we're proud of the strength that comes from all our different backgrounds and experiences and we value everyone's uniqueness. We thrive in uncertainty, operate with integrity and leverage the diverse perspectives of our teams.

If you're looking for a place that fuels your ambition to make a difference, that matches your curiosity with continuous learning opportunities and reimagines ways of working to enable you to lead a more balanced life, then you're a future PwCer.