Personal Assistant

Love helping others do their best work, bringing clarity to competing priorities and being someone people trust and rely on? You’ll want to keep reading.

Three reasons to consider this opportunity

• Work alongside experienced Directors who value trust, initiative and common sense
• A genuinely varied role
• Be part of a high-performing team that enjoys what they do and backs each other

Why RWCA

RWCA Nelson is a highly regarded Chartered Accountancy and Business Advisory firm known for doing things properly - for their clients and their people. They’re focused on practical, value-led advice and building long-term relationships, not transactional work. Internally, it’s a team built on trust, accountability, and respect. You’re expected to take ownership, think operationally and commercially, and contribute - but you’re also supported by experienced leaders and a genuinely collaborative team.

The role

Working closely with the Directors, you'll help create capacity, manage competing priorities and ensure important things continue to move. You'll be the person who keeps an eye on the detail, follows things through and brings clarity to the moving parts. You'll have visibility across the business, be trusted to use your judgement and become an important part of helping the Directors and wider team do their best work.

You'll also enjoy variety and understand that no two days look exactly the same. Alongside supporting the Directors, you'll be someone who is happy to step in and support the wider team where needed, helping ensure things continue to run smoothly for both clients and colleagues.

What you'll be doing:

• Managing diaries, priorities and commitments,
• Documentation - Preparation of documents and correspondence from instructions including AI transcription
• Coordinating meetings and ensuring actions continue to move
• Managing the flow of information, requests and competing priorities
• Building strong relationships with clients and stakeholders
• Following up actions and commitments with confidence and professionalism
• Using Microsoft 365 and AI-enabled tools to improve efficiency
• Supporting the wider team and helping ensure things run smoothly
• Assist with general office administration tasks as required

About you

You'll have experience as a Personal Assistant, or from a broader operational administration background where you've supported senior leaders, managed competing priorities and built trusted relationships.

While experience matters, we know success in a role like this comes down to more than technical capability. It's about judgement, confidence, emotional intelligence, professionalism and how you show up every day. We're looking for someone who thrives on helping others succeed and gets genuine satisfaction from bringing clarity, structure and follow through to the moving parts.

More importantly, you:

• Build trust and credibility with ease and communicate with confidence, warmth and professionalism
• Takes ownership and exercise sound judgement, knowing when to escalate matters
• Are highly organised, adaptable and able to juggle competing priorities without losing sight of the detail
• Have the confidence to respectfully follow people up and keep commitments moving
• Are comfortable supporting senior leaders and engaging with a wide range of stakeholders
• Can comfortably move between the detail and the bigger picture, knowing when each matter most
• Bring a calm, pragmatic approach and don't get flustered when priorities shift
• Balance confidence with empathy and know how to read the room
• Enjoy variety and are happy when no two days look exactly the same
• Are technologically savvy and curious about smarter ways of working
• Take pride in doing things properly and genuinely enjoy helping others do their best work
• Act as a positive culture influencer - someone who shows up well, backs the team, and helps keep standards high

Why this role?

The best PA roles are about more than diaries and meetings. They're about trust, judgement, relationships and follow through, and this is one of those roles.

You'll have visibility across the business, work alongside experienced leaders and become an important part of helping the wider team succeed. It's a role for someone who enjoys variety, values relationships and gets genuine satisfaction from helping things run smoothly and enabling others to do their best work.

How to apply

We've partnered with Bespoke Approach on this search, with applications closing at 5:00pm on 1st of July 2026. Apply via Seek, LinkedIn or send your CV through to ***email_hidden***. Or, if you'd like to learn more before applying, feel free to reach out to Nikkie for a confidential chat.