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CELESTE C. QUIÑONES

CELESTE C. QUIÑONES

Bronx,New York

Summary

Reliable teammate with a focused attention on detail, accuracy, and business impact. Skilled at offering high-level administrative support to senior-level staff and visitors. Expert in travel management, expense tracking, and schedule coordination. Exceptional communication and organizational skills enable effective assistance to the executive team. Consistently exceeds expectations for enhancing executive productivity and improving business operations. Proficient in Microsoft Office and operates well with minimal supervision.

Skills

  • Information Confidentiality
  • Master Calender Management
  • Planning & Logistics Coordination
  • Strong Verbal and Written Communication
  • Time & Office Management

People & Management Skills

  • Constantly Adapting & Learning
  • Internal Community Building
  • Note Taking & Information Sharing
  • Spreadsheet Tracking
  • System & Process Management

Languages

Spanish
Professional Working
English
Native or Bilingual

Work History

Executive Administrative Assistant

Goldman Sachs
10.2015 - 04.2023
  • Provided administrative support to a Partner (PMD) and up to two Managing Directors (MD) in the Consumer and Investment Management Division (CIMD) Operations
  • Confidentially managed communications for special projects and handled secure documents
  • Preplanned and coordinated the Quarterly Global Town Halls, Monthly Business Unit updates, Annual Business Planning Meetings, and key travel dates for board meetings, global oversights, seminars, and client meetings
  • Compiled data showing outstanding deliverables and created actionable plans to close them out
  • Reduced the Chief of Staff team's workload by preparing and completing assigned projects, tracking key initiatives, and assessing alignment of upcoming strategic goals
  • Encouraged the coordination and fostering of community amongst the admin population and tenaciously advocated for a forum which resulted in the monthly CIMD global admin meetings
  • Developed a CIMD Admins Sharepoint site to share transcribed notes and procedures with the COS team and admins
  • Presented administrative updates weekly at team meetings and influenced the decision to add the administrative processes to the managers Sharepoint site, resulting in increased transparency and collaboration between the admins and the managers
  • Transcribed meeting notes for the Assistants Career Initiative (ACI) planning sessions as a committee member
  • Collaboratively planned and executed initiatives such as luncheons, meet and greets, and career advancement seminars hosted by senior members of the company as an ACI committee member
  • Responded to management requests for changes to as well as actively maintained the Risk Management System (RMS) to ensure accurate leadership and approval routing
  • Requested and granted approved individuals access to the team's secured area

Executive Administrative Assistant, Floater

Goldman Sachs
04.2015 - 10.2015
  • In under two weeks learned GS's systems and readily provided administrative support to two Partners in Operations
  • Received and answered a high volume of phone calls, scheduled daily/recurring meetings and events, submitted expenses, procured visa applications, technology requests, and troubleshooting
  • Facilitated the use of Goldman Sachs web databases such as but not limited to Concur for travel and expenses, Couriers Application for documents and items needing immediate attention, and Artemis for timekeeping

Executive Administrative Assistant

American Express
10.2013 - 04.2015
  • Provided administrative support to three Vice Presidents in the Operational Risk Governance Group (ORGG)
  • Scheduled appointments/conference calls, managed expense reports, tracked and inputted payroll, provided information to appropriate parties, as well as coordinated all team meetings and events
  • Actively contributed to projects and coordinating global meetings such as, but not limited to, the Monthly Operational Risk Management Committee (ORMC), the Monthly OpRisk Working Group Committee, the Quarterly Senior Management OpRisk Council, and the Quarterly Control Rating Review
  • Joined weekly senior meetings to transcribe and distribute takeaways
  • Mentored onboarding Executive Administrative Assistants joining the Operational Risk Governance Group teams

Executive Administrative Assistant

American Express
06.2011 - 10.2013
  • Provided administrative support to three attorneys in the General Counsel's Office (GCO)
  • Used Amex databases such as Outlook for calendar management, the Reserve System to secure teleconferences and meeting rooms, Concur to make travel arrangements and expense reports, Zip Thru Catering for all food requests, and other Amex tools
  • Managed external Iron Mountain storage to secure and request sensitive information for the attorneys, as well as organized and maintained paper and electronic files
  • Completed ad-hoc projects in a timely manner and managed the GCO's connect forum's monthly meet and greet
  • Served as a member on the planning committee for the Hispanic Affinity group known as HOLA

References

Professional references available upon request. 

Further work history / experience upon request

Education

Bachelor of Arts Degree - Political Science

CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, LEHMAN COLLEGE
11.2024

Associate of Arts Degree - Psychology

CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE
06.2024

Work Availability

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CELESTE C. QUIÑONES