Professional and knowledgeable office clerk offering several years of experience in administrative support and customer service. Highly efficient planning, problem-solving, and communication skills. I enhanced communication and efficiency within the Department of Education as a Senior Administration Clerk. Leveraging strong organisation and Microsoft Office proficiency, I significantly contributed to project success and customer satisfaction. My background also includes impactful roles in collections and HR, showcasing my versatility and expert multitasking abilities.
■ Responsible for supporting the Organisation Development team and preparing relevant project documents.
■ Supporting OD practitioners, maintaining office-management duties, making travel arrangements, procurement, handling calendar events, organising reports and filing, answering phone calls, setting up meetings.
■ Handled incoming and outgoing correspondence to promote smooth communication
■ Coordinate communications with Directors to keep informed on critical matters
■ Facilitated achievement of meeting objectives by promptly distributing minutes and outcomes
■ Received, sorted and directed incoming mail to maintain good communication channels
■ Assisting OD Practitioners in assembling and organising facts, data and preparing PowerPoint presentations for meetings, briefings and reports
■ Performing ad hoc duties/Task
SALARIES DEPARTMENT
■ Updating banking details on PERSAL for employees on request
■ Calculate and pay leave gratuities PERSAL & BAS
■ Payment of exams and assessment project
■ Calculate and pay fuel claims and S&T allowance on PERSAL
■ Pay salary Arrear on PERSAL
■ Record, organise, store, capture and retrieve correspondence and data
■ Update registers and statistics
■ Handle routine enquiries
■ Analysing data for accuracy before inputting into the system
■ Answering phones and performing clerical office functions to address queries, concerns and issues, escalating complaints to management
■ Created and maintained company records and used software to review and monitor data
■ Placed outbound collections calls daily to account holders
■ Spoke to customers in multiple languages to resolve problems and answer questions
■ Developed excellent working knowledge of industry trends and improvements in processes
■ Resolved customer queries and problems using effective communication and providing step-by-step solutions
■ Managed complaints with calm, clear communication and problem-solving
■ Demonstrated consistent hard work and dedication to achieve results and improve operations
■ Created repayment plans based on account holders' financial status and repayment abilities
■ Recovered lost revenue by persistently contacting customers with past due accounts
■ Interviewed customers to determine reasons for delinquency, source of income and the next pay date to build solutions for financial issues
■ Met demands of busy collections group by performing high volume of daily calls
■ Documented discssions and actions in customer accounts and collections database
■ Followed up with customers, leveraging empathetic and transparent communication to offer top-quality assistance.
■ Evaluate competency and skills
■ Drafted and uploaded detailed job descriptions for open positions
■ Prepared interview questions for candidates based on past expertise, job opening requirements and questions relating to positions
■ Kept candidate database up to date with relevant information, contact details and experience for later job openings
■ Reviewed all submitted CVs, shortlisting based on job requirements and hiring manager specifications
■ Attended interviews with recruitment managers to take notes and ask questions when required.
Strong organization
Document preparation
Microsoft Word,ExcelPowerpoint efficiency
Time management mastery
Travel arrangements
Calendar management
Meeting facilitation
Expert multitasking
Efficient problem solving
Filing systems and mail handling
Customer satisfaction
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Name: Brenda Dyubeni
Company: Department of Education
Relationship: Supervisor -
Contact: 0732809475
Email: Brenda.Dyubeni@ecdoe.ac.za
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