Role Title: Executive Assistant
Location: South Africa (Fully remote)
Type: Contractor
Hours: Monday to Friday 8am to 5pm (UK hours)
Salary: R20 000 - R25 000 per month (depending on experience)
We are seeking a highly organised, proactive, and capable Executive Assistant to support a fast-growing group of businesses in the property and finance space. This is a high-trust, fast-paced role working directly with the founder across multiple brands, events, content creation, and daily operations.
This role is for someone looking to go beyond a traditional EA position and grow alongside a rapidly scaling business. The ideal candidate will bring structure, efficiency, and calm to a busy environment, playing a key role in keeping everything moving.
Businesses Involved:
- Specialist mortgage brokerage for property investors and developers.
- Residential mortgage and protection solutions.
- Education and training platform for mortgage brokers.
- Premium community and events platform for women in property and finance.
- Networking and events brand focused on high-level international events.
- Personal brand platform sharing business insights, content creation, and partnerships.
- Managing multiple inboxes (10+), drafting emails, and flagging urgent matters.
- Diary and personal support including scheduling meetings, events, and travel.
- Planning and coordinating events across multiple brands.
- Operations and administration: onboarding clients/members/partners, system improvement.
- Finance and payments: tracking invoices, expenses, basic bookkeeping.
- Content & brand support (optional): social media scheduling, content planning, community engagement.
- Presentation & project support: creating presentations, business documents, supporting launches and campaigns.
Requirements
Essential:
- Proven experience managing high-volume inboxes (10+).
- Ability to work under pressure and juggle multiple priorities.
- Strong written communication, confident responding on behalf of the business.
- Highly organised with excellent attention to detail.
- Proactive and solutions-focused, able to make decisions independently.
- Comfortable working across multiple brands and tasks.
- Trustworthy and able to handle confidential information.
- Tech-savvy and quick to learn new systems.
- Sense of humour for a fast-paced environment.
Preferred Tools & Experience:
- Bookkeeping, invoices, and financial tracking software.
- Graphic design and presentation tools.
- Email campaign and audience management platforms.
- Task/project management tools (Trello or similar).
- Google Workspace / Microsoft Office: documents, spreadsheets, calendar management.
Not Suitable If:
- You need step-by-step direction or close supervision.
- You struggle to prioritise or manage multiple tasks.
- You are not confident making decisions.
- You prefer a slow-paced or repetitive role.
Ideal Candidate Traits:
- Thrives in a fast-paced environment.
- Takes ownership and pride in their work.
- Brings order to chaos.
- Proactive, resourceful, and solutions-focused.
- Excited to contribute to building something ambitious.
Benefits
Work closely with a high-growth entrepreneur across multiple businesses.
Gain exposure to high-growth businesses, events, and strategic projects.
Direct collaboration with the founder on multiple brands.
Opportunity for growth into a larger, more senior role as the businesses scale.
Be part of an exciting, fast-paced, and dynamic work environment.