Executive Assistant

Executive Assistant & Business Operations Coordinator

Location: Fully remote, South Africa

Hours: Full-time, Monday to Friday, aligned with UK working hours

Pay: R250 per hour

Reports to: Founders and senior leadership team

Application: click on the linkedin Apply button to access the Google Form

About Just Bee Honey

Just Bee is one of the UK's fastest-growing wellness brands, creating innovative honey blends infused with natural vitamins, minerals and botanicals to support everyday health, from sleep and immunity to gut health.

Following our inclusion in the 2026 Sunday Times 100 Fastest Growing Companies, we've grown from £1.75 million to £10 million turnover in just three years and are entering our next phase of growth with exciting new product launches, retail expansion and continued innovation.

About the role

We are looking for a highly organised and proactive Executive Assistant & Business Operations Coordinator to support our founders and wider leadership team.

This is a varied remote role covering executive support, finance and payroll administration, reporting and business projects. You will help keep recurring processes running smoothly, ensure important actions are followed through and bring structure to a busy, growing business.

Key responsibilities

Executive support

• Manage the founders’ inboxes and provide clear daily debriefs
• Monitor shared inboxes and ensure important queries are actioned
• Draft emails, reports and internal communications
• Support diary management, meeting preparation, research and follow-ups

Finance, payroll and HR administration

• Assist with reconciliations, invoices, supplier payments and financial trackers
• Support the preparation and checking of monthly payroll information
• Review timesheets, leave and other employee records
• Assist with onboarding, offboarding and general HR administration

Reporting and business operations

• Maintain regular sales, marketing and operational reports
• Prepare clear performance updates for the leadership team
• Support channel-specific financial and performance reporting
• Highlight unusual results, risks and outstanding actions

Projects and process improvement

• Coordinate projects across operations, HR, finance, marketing and customer service
• Create and maintain trackers, procedures and internal guidance
• Support creator collaborations, customer disputes and escalated enquiries
• Identify opportunities to simplify or automate administrative processes

Skills and experience

• Experience in an Executive Assistant, operations, finance administration or similarly varied role
• Excellent organisation, communication and priority-management skills
• Some experience with bookkeeping, reconciliations, invoicing or payroll administration
• Strong Excel or Google Sheets skills and confidence working with numbers
• Excellent written and spoken English with strong attention to detail
• Confidence using AI tools to support research, reporting and administrative work
• A proactive, trustworthy approach and the ability to work independently

Experience with Xero, Shopify, Amazon, TikTok Shop or similar platforms would be helpful, but training can be provided.

If you enjoy variety, take ownership of your work and like finding ways to make things run more smoothly, we’d love to hear from you.

To apply, simply click the LinkedIn Apply button above and complete the short Google Form. We’ve included a little attention-to-detail check, so when asked for your favourite colour, please select maroon. We look forward to hearing from you!