Executive Assistant (C-Suite)

DO MORE Placements; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 510 000 - 600 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm is looking for an Executive Assistant to support the CEO and COO. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in a similar role, demonstrate exceptional organizational skills, and thrive in a fast-paced environment. You will manage executive schedules, handle sensitive information, and ensure efficient operations. This role offers direct access to senior leadership and a chance for professional growth in a dynamic company culture.

Benefits

Direct access to senior decision-makers

Real influence and visibility

Long-term growth opportunities

Qualifications

• Matric required.
• 10+ years of experience supporting senior executives.
• Experience in financial services, legal, property, or professional services.

Responsibilities

• Manage complex executive diaries and logistics.
• Act as a gatekeeper and translator for leadership.
• Handle sensitive information with discretion.
• Prepare and organise high-level correspondence.
• Follow up on actions and commitments proactively.

Skills

Highly organised

Attention to detail

Emotional intelligence

Proactive problem-solving

Ability to work with strong personalities

Education

Diploma / Degree (advantageous)

Job description

EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT (C-Suite) - R 600k pa - Southern Suburbs, CPT

The role

This is a high-trust, high-impact Executive Assistant role supporting a CEO and COO in a fast-moving, entrepreneurial financial services environment.

You’ll be the calm, organised centre in a business where decisions are made quickly, ideas move fast, and leadership operates at a high level. One executive is highly driven, detail-focused, expressive, and particular. The other is strategic, composed, and exceptionally busy. They work in lockstep and trust each other completely. You will be the person who makes that partnership run smoothly.

This is not a passive support role. You’ll be deeply embedded in how the business operates day to day, anticipating needs, filtering noise, and ensuring nothing important slips.

Why this role is special

• Direct access to senior decision-makers
• Real influence and visibility
• A role that will stretch you intellectually and professionally
• Long-term opportunity for someone who wants to be genuinely embedded in a business, not just support it

If you’re the kind of Executive Assistant who takes pride in excellence, thrives alongside demanding leaders, and wants to be part of something driven and purposeful, this role will feel like home.

The environment

This is a unique financial services firm with an entrepreneurial mindset. Decisions are made quickly. There’s no unnecessary hierarchy. If something makes sense, it gets done. If it doesn’t, it’s dropped. The culture values competence, trust, and results over politics and noise.

What you’ll be doing

• Managing complex executive diaries, priorities, and logistics with precision
• Acting as a gatekeeper and translator between leadership and the wider business
• Handling sensitive, confidential information with discretion and sound judgment
• Preparing, proofreading, and organising high-level correspondence, documents, and presentations
• Following up on actions, deadlines, and commitments without being asked
• Creating order in fast-changing situations and ambiguous moments
• Supporting ad hoc projects that require sharp thinking, structure, and follow-through
• Keeping executives focused by removing friction from their day
• Anticipate and be proactive

Requirements

• Matric
• Relevant Diploma / Degree (advantageous)
• 10+ years experience supporting senior executives
• Experience in financial services, legal, property, or professional services

The kind of person who thrives here

• Highly organised, naturally structured, and meticulous about detail
• Comfortable working with strong personalities and different communication styles
• Confident enough to push back when needed, tactful enough to do it well
• Emotionally intelligent, intuitive, and able to read the room
• Calm under pressure and unflappable when plans change
• A natural fixer who enjoys bringing clarity to complexity
• Loyal, reliable, and deeply professional
• Energised by pace, responsibility, and being relied on

You don’t need hand-holding. You spot problems before they become problems. You enjoy being the person leadership depends on.

Benefits

• Direct access to senior decision-makers
• Real influence and visible impact
• A role that will stretch you intellectually and professionally
• Long-term opportunity for someone who wants to be genuinely embedded in a business, not just support it