1. CURRICULUM VITAE – Dementhree Tarryn Govender
govkersh@gmail.com
PERSONAL DETAILS
Date of birth: 19 November 1973
Birthplace: Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Nationality: South African
Languages: English (fluent); Afrikaans (good)
Marital Status: Married
EDUCATIONAL DETAILS
Matriculated at Northbury Park Secondary School (Dec. 1991)
Skills:
• Windows – All packages up to Windows 7
• Microsoft Office – All packages up to 2010
• Internet Explorer
• Mozilla Firefox
• Lotus Notes
• Adobe Acrobat
• Typing 65-70 wpm
EMPLOYMENT DETAILS
McKinsey & Company (Feb 2006 – Present)
Executive Assistant – Director (Managing Partner Lagos) and Partner
Visual Aid Manager
Duties as Executive Assistant
Assist the Director/Partner in using their time most effectively through skillful agenda management
Core duties
• Responsible for the provision of secretarial and administrative support to the Director and
Partner, in the Sub-Saharan Africa Office
• Production of accurate, properly formatted, typed documents (e.g., memos, letters, emails,
LOP’s), under normally tight time constraints, working from either electronic format or
written draft
• Performing a diverse range of administrative duties, including following up to ensure that
appropriate and timely actions are taken, i.e.
: Arranging extensive travel – domestic and international, booking of accommodation and
arranging ground transportation on site;
: Arranging of internal as well as client meetings, in charge of all logistics involved.
: Arranging conferences with international delegates, taking care of all logistics, i.e.
booking of all accommodation, setting up dinners, booking meeting venues, arranging
ground transportation and being on site to make sure that all is in order.
: Arranging telephonic and video conferences with local and international offices, making

2. sure that everything is set up and tested before the actual call takes place.
: Maintaining diaries – scheduling of meetings and calls, and rescheduling when necessary
: Initiate and respond to correspondence such as emails, faxes and letters
: Providing telephonic coverage – answering direct reports ‘calls when they are not
available,
Assisting and or taking messages
: Sending of daily update emails to direct reports’
: Working very closely with various teams, helping them arrange calls, meetings, for off site
events
: Sorting potential diary conflicts, finding alternate times for all parties concerned.
: Submitting of timesheets, expenses, mobile phone billing and credit card statements on a
monthly basis.
• Working together with my cluster colleagues to ensure that, should cover be required, he/she
can take over with minimal disruption to the Director / Partner
• Performing of other duties as assigned to me by the Director / Partner
• Maintain databases, contacts/distribution lists
• Link between the Firm and the client, ensuring that requests and enquiries are channelled
appropriately
• Consult with Engagement Manager to gather context specific information about the
programmes
• Liaise with IT to update mailing lists timeously
Visual Aid Manager duties
• General management of SSA Visual Aids – this is a team of 7 external facilitators that provide
assistance with drawing up all documentation from PowerPoint presentations to Word
formatting and Excel spreadsheets
• Strengthen relationship and distribute tools to improve working model
• Review strategy model every 6 months
• Set KPIs, including individual utilization and capacity balance, and conduct monthly
performance reviews
• Review and approve invoices e.g. check for hours worked according to contract, before
submitting to Finance for payment
• Ensure adherence to security and confidentiality as per terms of contract
• Quality management
• Be the point of contact for consultants to provide regular feedback on service quality
• Conduct independent quality reviews on decks
• Training
• Advise on training needs to up skill new staff and refresh experienced staff
• Succession planning and contract renewal
• Assess capacity balance and recruit new contractors as needed
In addition to the above core functions on both roles, I am also the Executive Assistant trainer –
compiled Executive Assistant manual for new candidates. My ability to connect with people from all
walks of life has drawn colleagues both locally and internationally to coach and mentor them.
In 2008, I was approached to go to Bahrain as an Executive Assistant and Administration Manager to
share my expertise, experience and working style with a small but fast growing office. Here is where
I spread my wings further by managing the office administration and finance with regular feedback to

3. the flagship office in Dubai.
I have being a distinctive performer for the past 9 years due to my commitment, motivation and drive.
I earned the EA of the year 2012 and 2013 at McKinsey.
Democratic Alliance (April 1999 – Jan 2006)
Executive Assistant – 2nd
assistant to the Leader of the Official Opposition Tony Leon
• Schedule, screen and action emails and telephone calls
• Travel arrangements i.e. flights reservations, accommodation and car hire
• Diary management for the operations manager Manage and train admin staff nationally
• Creating admin manuals
• Creating of data bases
• Payroll of all sub-contracted employees to TASA, converting from MS Access to Excel
• Payroll and HR administrator
• Loan repayment reconciliations of employees
• Managing and motivating call centre on weekly targets
• Maintaining National Data Base of donors
• Mailing list and distribution of donor thank you letters and invoices
• Control monthly budgets
• Monthly payments
• Petty Cash reconciliation
• Banking
• Ordering of office stationery, equipment and refreshments
• Renewing maintenance contracts
• Weekly reports for head office i.e. Reconciliation of bank statements, excel spreadsheets,
weekly analysis of contributions received
• Employment advertisements in the local and national press
• Interviewing candidates and reference checks
• Telephonic queries
• Typing of proposals, drafting of letters, processing of documentation
• Liaising with Provincial Leaders, Public Representatives and Senior Management of the DA
• Scheduling of internal and external meetings preparing agendas for meetings
• Social events for the Party
• Arranging Leaders Events and Rallies
• Planning, budgeting and arranging the success of the event/rally
• Leaders Diary management
• Negotiating with Provincial Leaders and Public Representatives on Leaders Events and Rallies
• Internal and External queries of behalf of the Leader
• Statistics on National Registration Drive for the Leader
• Presentation reports for Federal Executive Meetings for the Party
• Restructuring of Public Representatives Constituencies
• Re-aligning constituencies in co ordinance with the demarcation board
• Update local council information
• Liaise with councillors
• Handle crossover reports
• Help with the preparation of Local Government Elections
Sappi Forest (Dec 1998 – Feb 1999)

4. Secretary
• Data Capturing
• Filing
• Account Queries
• Relief Switchboard Operator
• Printing Of Statements & Invoices
• Liasing With Customers
• Worked On The Sap Programme
Sterns Pietermaritzburg (Oct 1999-Dec 1999)
Sales Associate
• Sales
• Banking / Receipting
• Filing
• Data Capturing (Capturing Of Invoices And Credit Notes)
• Petty Cash
• Account Queries
The Spotted Dog Cellars (July 1992-October 1998)
Cashier/Floor Manager
• Supervising &Training Of Cashiers
• Controlling Of Monthly Budgets
• Payments To All Creditors
• Reconciliation Of All Cashier Till Slips On A Weekly Basis
• Switchboard Operator
• Excellent Supplier Contact
• Managed All Cash Received / Payments To Suppliers (Cash & Cheque) / Banking
• Maintaining And Updating All Staff
• Records
• Filing
• Processing Of All Accounts / Documentation
• Stock Controller
• Data Capturing (All Invoices & Credit Notes)
• Petty Cash (Payments & Reconciliation On A Weekly Basis)
• Party Invoices

5. References
Sean Geyer
Director of Finance
Tel: 011 506 8122 / 082 329 8122
Stewart Goodman
Partner
Tel: 011 506 8179 / 082 329 8179
Acha Leke
Director
Tel: 011 506 8024 / 082 329 8024