Sakinah Fakier, Executive Assistant / Project Manager

Sakinah Fakier

Executive Assistant / Project Manager

Plan B Alliance

Lieu
Afrique du Sud - Cape Town
Éducation
Etudes secondaires ou équivalent, High school
Expérience
5 years, 4 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :5 years, 4 Mois

Executive Assistant / Project Manager à Plan B Alliance
  • Afrique du Sud - Cape Town
  • juin 2020 à janvier 2023

• Managed CEO's diary and scheduled meetings & appointments
• Acted as point of contact between the CEO and internal/external clients
• Handled travel arrangements
• Compiled reports (PR reports, monthly finance reports, social media reports etc)
• Lead point of contact on projects
• Contributed strategically to PR & social media content plans
• Entering customer and account data from source documents (Data entry)
• Took dictation and meeting minutes
• Assisted with financial tasks (capturing invoices, account reconciliation etc)
• Attended all client meetings / site visits
• Compiled and managed client campaign budgets (across all client projects)
• Compiled systems within the workplace (filing
systems, quick & efficient workplace processes, leave tracking system etc)
• Assisted CEO with Business Development
• Provided staff training to relevant staff when needed
• Proofreading / editing Press Releases, letters, agendas etc
• Managed event operations (preparing venue, invitations etc.)
• Arranged and managed client media interviews
• Tracked latest industry news / company trends etc
• Planned events
• Researched & managed vendors
• Oversee event happenings
• Evaluate event’s success and submit reports

Sales and Admin Assistant à Container Intermodal Trading
  • Afrique du Sud - Cape Town
  • février 2019 à novembre 2019

• Manage diary and schedule meetings & appointments
• Attended networking sessions (to promote products/services)
• Assist with internal/external communication (clients etc)
• Present, promote and sell products/services
• Achieved agreed upon sales targets and outcomes within schedule
• Reach out to customer leads through cold calling
• Supplied management with reports on customer needs, problems, interests, competitive activities, and potential for new products and services.
• Establish, develop and maintain positive business and customer relationships
• Attended to filling/printing & scanning documents
• Updating and collating data on spreadsheets (leave forms, quotations, letters etc)
• Entering customer and account data from source documents (Data entry)
• Screen, direct & distribute phone calls / correspondence
• Compiled quotations for clients
• Arrange and attend depot visits/product viewings
• Compiled/completed relevant product inspections
• Proofreading documentation such as letters, quotations, emails etc
• Source office supplies

Personal Assistant à Schroeder & Associates
  • Afrique du Sud - Cape Town
  • mai 2018 à décembre 2018

• Entering customer and account data from source documents (Data entry)
• Prepare bank deposits, general ledger postings and statements
• Reconcile accounts
• Assisted with PAYE
• Daily enter key data of financial transactions in database
• Provide assistance and support to company personnel
• Managed diary and scheduled meetings & appointments
• Acted as point of contact between the manager and internal/external clients
• Screen, direct & distribute phone calls / correspondence
• Devise a plan and maintain office filing system
• Produced reports
• Took dictation and meeting minutes

Administrative Assistant à Department of Local Government
  • Afrique du Sud - Cape Town
  • avril 2017 à mars 2018

• Managed diary and scheduled meetings & appointments
• Acted as point of contact between the manager and internal/external clients
• Handled travel arrangements
• Screen, direct & distribute phone calls / correspondence
• Proofreading / editing documents such as external
letters to municipalities, agendas, meeting packs for ministers etc
• Compiled and updated leave spreadsheets, S&T forms & CMATS system
• Produced reports, presentations and briefs
• Attended to filling/printing & scanning documents (leave forms, claim forms, letters etc)
• Processed claims
• Entering customer and account data from source documents (Data entry)
• Supported other departments in organizing various projects/events
• Source office supplies
• Attended regular municipal site visits for reporting
• Attended stakeholder/government meetings (in parliament etc)
• Conducting research
• Devise and maintain office filing system
• Took dictation and meeting minutes

Personal Assistant à Aquila Private Game Reserve
  • Afrique du Sud - Cape Town
  • janvier 2017 à février 2017

• Manage diary and schedule meetings & appointments
• Act as point of contact between the manager and internal/external clients
• Screen, direct & distribute phone calls / communications
• Entering customer and account data from source documents (Data entry)
• Handled travel arrangements
• Supported Marketing Manager in organizing various projects/events
• Source office supplies
• Devise and maintain office filing system
• Proofreading documentation (consumer letters, stakeholder reports etc)
• Conducting market research

Éducation

Etudes secondaires ou équivalent, High school
  • à Kensington High school
  • décembre 2016

Specialties & Skills

Personal Assistant
Administration
Project Management
Event Co ordination
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Outlook
Adobe Acrobat
Microsoft Excel
Zoho CRM
Microsoft PowerPoint
Sage Pastel
event management
office administration

Langues

Afrikaans
Expert
Anglais
Langue Maternelle