
Executive Assistant, Finance & Reporting
iSTA Solutions
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: South Africa
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About the role
- Provide day-to-day support to executive leadership
- Work extensively in Microsoft Excel to maintain and update reporting files
- Assist with recurring financial and operational reporting requirements
- Maintain and update Excel-based P&L and Balance Sheet reporting files
- Add new reporting periods and ensure data structures remain consistent
- Ensure formulas, links, and calculations remain accurate across updates
- Work with financial data exported from systems such as QuickBooks Online
- Organise, validate, and prepare data for reporting and presentation
- Prepare summary views, charts, and structured outputs from existing data
- Identify opportunities to reduce manual work and improve reporting workflows
- Support ad hoc administrative, reporting, and project-related tasks
Requirements
- Advanced Microsoft Excel (formulas, PivotTables, structured models)
- Comfortable working with financial and operational reports (incl P&L and Balance Sheet data)
- Experience handling exported system data (CSV / Excel data exports)
- Strong analytical and problem-solving ability
- High attention to detail and data accuracy
- Experience with QuickBooks Online
- Experience maintaining recurring reporting templates or spreadsheets
- Familiarity with financial data structuring
- Interest in efficiency or productivity tools (e.g. Copilot, automation tools)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Microsoft ExcelformulasPivotTablesfinancial reportingoperational reportingP&LBalance Sheetdata structuringCSV data exportsreporting templates
Soft Skills
analytical abilityproblem-solvingattention to detaildata accuracyorganizational skills