Business Presentation Specialist

Purpose of Role

The Ideal candidate will have come from a financial analysis background. Experience in researching gathering, and interpreting financial information along with company fundamentals.

The successful incumbent will work with fellow colleagues to understand their data and ideas and help convey them in a professional way by transforming them into clear, compelling, highly accurate and visually attractive presentations.

This means, making the complicated business topics clear through business presentations that are easy-to-understand for the brain and are visually pleasing to the eye as well.

The Business Presentation Specialist is a visual business communicator and plays an important role in helping the company create, design and format attractive and meaningful electronic presentations for internal and external stakeholders.

The Business Presentation Specialist has a thorough understanding of the business areas and works collaboratively with graphic design and copywriting teams to make the presentations useful and eye-catching.

Key Performance Areas

• Thorough Understanding of the company and areas of business
• Collaboration with marketing for the style guidelines
• Design and enhance presentations in a strategic and creative way

Qualifications & Experience

• Tertiary qualification in Finance/ Economics/ Business
• Minimum 2 years’ experience working in a business/financial consulting role
• Experience within business consulting firms or one of the big four preferred
• Experience working with start-up, e-commerce or travel industry clients will be advantageous

Knowledge and Skills Requirements

• Ability to find the story in the data and present this for multiple users
• Ability to synthesise (raw) data in a concise and structured manner
• Tech savvy – knowledge of and open to using new presentation software
• Expert knowledge of PowerPoint; thorough working knowledge of Excel, Word and Photoshop
• Flash and web skills a plus, ability to configure independent graphs and adding details will be added advantage
• Business acumen
• A strong visualiser
• Ability to communicate fluently in English with a firm grasp of spelling and grammar
• Ability to Problem solve
• Understanding of how people view and understand content

Personal Competency Requirements

• Team player and the ability to collaborate
• Adherence to Principles and values
• Integrity and professional ethics
• Demonstrates initiative and commitment
• Ability to adjust to changing priorities while multitasking effectively
• Time management and ability to work under pressure and across regions
• Quality and detail orientated
• Proactive and practices sense of urgency
• Highly organized and effectively prioritizes
• Solutions Driven
• Self-motivated and passionate
• Detail-oriented individual who reviews his/her work carefully
• Self-starter with the ability to work independently

To apply for this awesome opportunity please send us your CV (maximum 3 pages), to: recruitme@travelstart.com Please include a copy of your academic certificate and transcript (marks). The reference for this opportunity is “Business Presentation Specialist”.
Please insert this into the subject line of your email application. Any applicants not meeting the minimum requirements will not receive a response. Please note that we reserve to right to amend, freeze the role or not hire. The final appointment will be at the discretion of Travelstart. Good luck!