Melissa Du Plessis

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TEAM EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT
Melissa Du Plessis's Location
Benoni, Gauteng, South Africa, South Africa
About Melissa Du Plessis

I'm an extremely organized and meticulous individual with excellent time management skills and professionalism in presentation. Highly skilled in providing administrative support functions, including scheduling, outward/ inward remittance processing, expense reports, and filing. I'm a proactive individual with sound judgment offering10+ years of executive experience, highly developed project management and problem-solving skills, and expert knowledge of Microsoft Outlook, Word, and Excel.I’m results-driven and have a track record of often taking on additional duties and tasks to achieve my deadlines and targets if need be. I lead by example and strive for excellence in the workplace. I have a democratic approach to management style. The professional challenges provided by my current role have proved exciting and strengthened my ability to prioritize and facilitate several competing demands from stakeholders and clients.

Melissa Du Plessis's Current Company Details

TEAM EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT
Melissa Du Plessis Work Experience Details
  • Stonehage Fleming
    Team Executive Assistant
    Stonehage Fleming Sep 2021 - Jan 2024
    Melrose, Johannesburg
    π˜Ύπ™€π™’π™₯π™šπ™©π™šπ™£π™© π™–π™§π™šπ™–π™¨ π™žπ™£π™˜π™‘π™ͺπ™™π™š (𝙗π™ͺ𝙩 π™–π™§π™š 𝙣𝙀𝙩 π™‘π™žπ™’π™žπ™©π™šπ™™ 𝙩𝙀) –‒ Screening calls on behalf of the executive.β€’ Act on behalf of the assigned executives to screen, direct and action inbox.β€’ Correspond and liaise with any relevant teams or persons to act in pursuit of addressing diary priorities.β€’ Provide extensive diary, inbox planning, and management along with call and meeting schedules.β€’ Maintain calendars of the assigned executives and set up meetings with staff members and clients accordingly.β€’ Act as the point of contact for visiting local or offshore colleagues.β€’ Assist the Marketing Department with marketing requirements, organizing clients' events, and invitation management.β€’ Organize appropriate gifts for clients and colleagues (updating gift register).β€’ Support the Directors as requested with Client work.β€’ Act as the point of contact among executives, employees, clients, and other external partners.β€’ Manage information flow in a timely and accurate manner.β€’ Conduct research, compile data, and prepare papers for consideration and presentation by executives, committees, and boards of Directors.β€’ Participate in committees, projects, and/or interest groups on behalf of executives, where required.β€’ Track daily expenses and prepare weekly monthly or quarterly reports.β€’ Format information for internal and external communication including memos, emails, presentations, and reports.β€’ Minute taking for executive as required.β€’ Organize and maintain the executive's filing system.β€’ Manage the assigned executives’ CPD points and other Compliance requirements.β€’ Assist with the management of the office head’s administration including expense claims, certificates, information ordering gifts for clients, and delivery of documents.β€’ Ensure the office head is kept up to date with any information relating to clients, which can have an impact on the client relationship.β€’ Preparation of review packs.
  • Stonehage Fleming
    Associate – Investment Management
    Stonehage Fleming Jul 2019 - Aug 2021
    π˜Ύπ™€π™’π™₯π™šπ™©π™šπ™£π™© π™–π™§π™šπ™–π™¨ π™žπ™£π™˜π™‘π™ͺπ™™π™š (𝙗π™ͺ𝙩 π™–π™§π™š 𝙣𝙀𝙩 π™‘π™žπ™’π™žπ™©π™šπ™™ 𝙩𝙀) –‒ Post client meeting follow-up with Partner / Portfolio Manager to ensure all client requests are documented and executed accordingly.β€’ Investment trade coordination: follow up to completion, liaising, and following up with 3rd party investment providers (execution team).β€’ Assist with the quarterly investment review process.β€’ Arrange foreign investment allowances, special applications, account opening, mandate preparation, asset swaps, Section 14 transfers, and structure unwinds.β€’ Manage team compliance matters, and maintenance of compliance files whilst ensuring that sufficient information is held to satisfy the relevant authorities, including CPD requirementsβ€’ Liaise with certain designated clients in conjunction with the team on monthly statements, to clients, GBI valuations, and deal with selected billing requirements.β€’ Ensure tax reporting is executed as per client requirements.β€’ Transactional requirements: Coordinating payment requests, ensuring cash requirements are met, basic trade preparation for cash flow top-ups, ensuring custodial fee accounts are topped up at all times, and dealing with corporate actions.β€’ Liaise with 3rd party service providers and with various business contacts, including banks, investment houses, etc.β€’ Draft general correspondence.β€’ Maintain filing database including the daily filing of client documents and filing of general documents.β€’ Diary management and PA support (telephone support, expense claims, minute taking, etc) for Managers/Directors in the immediate team.β€’ Assist client take-on team with client take-on and FICA process (prepare investment management agreements, gather FICA documents).Reason for leaving: Promoted to Team Executive Assistant.
  • Stonehage Fleming
    Associate – Operations
    Stonehage Fleming Jun 2018 - Jun 2019
    Competent areas include (but are not limited to) –Company Secretarial and Trust Administration:β€’ Facilitate the execution of all relevant company secretarial services for our clients including the retention and update of statutory records, maintenance of company register and minute book, registration of shares and issue of share certificates, company registrations, reservation of company name, obtaining of shelf company and assisting with relevant changes, drafting of relevant application forms, resolutions and minutes, submission to CIPC.β€’ Execute all relevant trust administration services for clients including the setup of a Trust, Amendments to letters of authority, drafting of resolutions and minutes, payment of registration fees, and submission to the master’s office.β€’ Assist with the execution and compliance of our best practice Trust Administration governance structures and processes. Client take-on / Database Administration: β€’ Assist the Relationship Managers and their assistants with requests relevant to client take-on.β€’ Communicate with clients to obtain the required FICA documentation in close collaboration with the Compliance Officer, the Relationship Managers, and their assistants.β€’ Continuously review process and drive implementation of improvements Reason for leaving: Promoted to Associate – Investment Management
  • Stonehage Fleming
    Associate – Banking And Forex Support
    Stonehage Fleming Jun 2017 - May 2018
    π˜Ύπ™€π™’π™₯π™šπ™©π™šπ™£π™© π™–π™§π™šπ™–π™¨ π™žπ™£π™˜π™‘π™ͺπ™™π™š (𝙗π™ͺ𝙩 π™–π™§π™š 𝙣𝙀𝙩 π™‘π™žπ™’π™žπ™©π™šπ™™ 𝙩𝙀) –‒ Submit local payments (daily) on the banking platforms.β€’ Send out the proof of payments once all local payments have been authorised.β€’ Vet and submit all forex payments to the relevant authorised dealer.β€’ Complete the balance of payments application form, book the forex trades, and ensure that the payment is compliant with SARB’s regulations.β€’ Submission of Exchange Control Applications (via an authorized dealer).β€’ Execution of both local and offshore investment trades (based on trade recommendations)β€’ Update and maintain the investment trade logs.β€’ Vet and process swift payments on the E Works platform. β€’ Email and distribute the team’s performance (based on the client Execution Team Dashboard) to the rest of the business.β€’ Check and finalize the FX dealing analysis for the month and send the dealing analysis with the invoice to the banks for processing.
  • Hbz Bank Limited
    Assistant Officer
    Hbz Bank Limited Jan 2015 - May 2017
    Boksburg, Gauteng, South Africa
    π˜Ύπ™€π™’π™₯π™šπ™©π™šπ™£π™© π™–π™§π™šπ™–π™¨ π™žπ™£π™˜π™‘π™ͺπ™™π™š (𝙗π™ͺ𝙩 π™–π™§π™š 𝙣𝙀𝙩 π™‘π™žπ™’π™žπ™©π™šπ™™ 𝙩𝙀) –‒ Run the branch in the absence of the Branch Manager and Operations Manager.β€’ Confirm client payments received via Eft.β€’ Check and authorise vouchers passed by all departments.β€’ Check and authorise Eft’s done on Absa and Standard bank.β€’ Supervise, lead and motivate 4 employees. β€’ Credit and Foreign Exchange Back up: teller, reception, compliance, and general banking.
  • Hbz Bank Limited
    Foreign Exchange And Credit Administrator
    Hbz Bank Limited Nov 2014 - May 2017
    π˜Ύπ™€π™’π™₯π™šπ™©π™šπ™£π™© π™–π™§π™šπ™–π™¨ π™žπ™£π™˜π™‘π™ͺπ™™π™š (𝙗π™ͺ𝙩 π™–π™§π™š 𝙣𝙀𝙩 π™‘π™žπ™’π™žπ™©π™šπ™™ 𝙩𝙀) –Forex:β€’ Import and Export processing.β€’ Receive LC applications, amendments, and initial scrutiny of LC applications or requests. β€’ Scan applications and forward them to CTF for processing. β€’ Receive export documents and ensure the same is in order, negotiate and forward documents to issuing bank, and receive funds from remitting bank. β€’ Outward and inward remittance processing.β€’ Receive remittance applications and requests from customers.β€’ Ensure the request or application is in order and forward the same to CTF for processing. β€’ Confirm customers as regards transactions.Exchange & Currencies:β€’ Records daily the branch exchange position through buying or selling with the treasury department. β€’ Oversee the after placements for all currencies daily.Credit:β€’ Process CLP, memorandums, and record keeping.β€’ Obtain client information and retrieve necessary documentation and financials for the recommendation process of CLP. β€’ Process memo’s for approval purposes including ad-hoc facilities required by clients.β€’ Letter of Guarantee.β€’ Raise necessary memo’s as required. β€’ Obtain signatures for necessary documents. Issue LG and maintain the file.β€’ Monitor facilities implemented deposits under lien in the account, revision in limits, and adherence to terms and conditions of approval.β€’ Closely monitor market fluctuations affecting collateral held against credit facility. β€’ Record results of any re-evaluations of collateral and in case of an immediate review to concerned authorities. β€’ Report on any irregularities in the accounts. β€’ Prepare yearly reports on work monitor/ risk rating for dispatch to CCD.Reason for leaving: Promoted to Assistant Officer.
  • Hbz Bank Limited
    Branch Compliance Officer
    Hbz Bank Limited Aug 2014 - Oct 2014
    π˜Ύπ™€π™’π™₯π™šπ™©π™šπ™£π™© π™–π™§π™šπ™–π™¨ π™žπ™£π™˜π™‘π™ͺπ™™π™š (𝙗π™ͺ𝙩 π™–π™§π™š 𝙣𝙀𝙩 π™‘π™žπ™’π™žπ™©π™šπ™™ 𝙩𝙀) –‒ Daily monitoring (deposits/withdrawals made in an account over a certain amount).β€’ Monthly monitoring of high-risk accounts.β€’ Calculate all income and expenses in the account.β€’ EDD forms (high-risk account, give more info about the company, why it is a high-risk account, ITC, and Worldwide check, etc.)β€’ Ensure that all accounts are FICA compliant before their opening.β€’ Re-KYC of all files opened and closing of dormant accounts.β€’ Teller, Reception, Forex, Credit and General Banking)Reason for leaving: Promoted to Foreign Exchange and Credit Administrator.
  • Hbz Bank Limited
    Administrator
    Hbz Bank Limited Jul 2012 - Jul 2014
    π˜Ύπ™€π™’π™₯π™šπ™©π™šπ™£π™© π™–π™§π™šπ™–π™¨ π™žπ™£π™˜π™‘π™ͺπ™™π™š (𝙗π™ͺ𝙩 π™–π™§π™š 𝙣𝙀𝙩 π™‘π™žπ™’π™žπ™©π™šπ™™ 𝙩𝙀) –Teller:β€’ Open in the morning (cash).β€’ Receive and give out cash (deposits and withdrawals).β€’ Get cash ready for cash services (G4S).β€’ Get change for clients.β€’ Cash up and balance at the end of the day.General Banking:β€’ Inward clearing (our bank’s cheques) and sending the appropriate messages/ email to the corresponding bank (Yufig, Misch, and SPADV messages).β€’ Outward clearing (other bank’s cheques) and capture, special clearing, and returned cheques.β€’ Eft’s and Suspended Eft’s (MTX).β€’ Reconcile bank accounts - Absa and Standard bank and capture outstanding amounts.β€’ Address Absa and Standard bank queries.β€’ Bank cheques and timed deposits.β€’ Oversee transfer between accounts.β€’ Capture all payments on our system.β€’ Assist clients with account queries.Forex:β€’ Buy and sell foreign currency and capture transactions (getting the client a rate, booking the deal, assisting the client in the transaction).β€’ TT(telegraphic transfers) Payments (overseas payments to be made in foreign currency to our client’s creditors- getting rate for client, booking rate for a client, getting specific documents from client to make payment, capturing transaction)Credit:β€’ Clients request a business loan or want an overdraft on account (Rand and Dollar).β€’ Draw up a call memo (Memo with a business background, what the client needs (overdraft/ loan) - Send for authorization with supporting documents from the client (financial statements, asset, and liabilities report, security documents, etc.)β€’ Send call memo to credit department for further authorization. β€’ Draw up a credit line proposal (more detailed memo of the company). β€’ Capture loan on the system, disburse loan/ overdraft.β€’ Liaise with clients and attorneys when a bond needs to be registered ( serves as security).Reason for leaving: Promoted to Branch Compliance Officer.
  • Bennet Mcnaughton Attorneys
    Receptionist/All-Rounder
    Bennet Mcnaughton Attorneys Mar 2011 - Jun 2012
    Edenvale, Gauteng, South Africa
    π˜Ύπ™€π™’π™₯π™šπ™©π™šπ™£π™© π™–π™§π™šπ™–π™¨ π™žπ™£π™˜π™‘π™ͺπ™™π™š (𝙗π™ͺ𝙩 π™–π™§π™š 𝙣𝙀𝙩 π™‘π™žπ™’π™žπ™©π™šπ™™ 𝙩𝙀) –‒ General office administration - including typing of documents (legal dictation), faxing, capturing files on the system, answering the switchboard, and taking messages. β€’ Booking boardrooms. β€’ Take and order (buying) office stationery. β€’ Banking and float.β€’ Post letters and Docex documents (Registered/ normal post letters, Tracking/ normal Docex). β€’ Capture expenses and money received from the bank statements for the savings/trust account. β€’ Account queries.β€’ Month end-sending out client statements.β€’ Capture lawyers' fees and calculate. β€’ Book and confirm appointments for lawyers. β€’ Daily drawing of client files (Old clients that have an appointment with a lawyer).

Melissa Du Plessis Education Details

  • Bankseta
    Bankseta
    National Certificate – Banking
  • Brandwag High School
    Brandwag High School
    Grade 12 / Senior Certificate

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Melissa Du Plessis attended Bankseta, Brandwag High School.

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