EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT (C-Suite) - R 600k pa - R720k pa - Southern Suburbs, CPT

Claremont, South Africa Posted on 01/16/2026

EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT (C-Suite) - R 600 - R 720k pa - Southern Suburbs, CPT

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, organized 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.

• 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.

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.

• 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 organizing high level correspondence, documents, and presentationsFollowing 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
• Anticipating and being proactive

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

• Highly organized, 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.