Bachelor of Science, Finance and Management @
University of Delaware - Lerner College of Business and Economics
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Highly organized event and project coordinator with more than five years of combined experience in planning important occasions for all employee levels and providing executive-level administrative support. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, successful in seamlessly working with clients, staff and all job levels. Also experienced as a training coordinator, committed to completing multiple projects, on tight schedules.
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Highly organized event and project coordinator with more than five years of combined experience in planning important occasions for all employee levels and providing executive-level administrative support. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, successful in seamlessly working with clients, staff and all job levels. Also experienced as a training coordinator, committed to completing multiple projects, on tight schedules.
Assistant Vice President, Corporate Events & Market Strategy @ From April 2014 to Present (1 year 9 months) Training Coordinator @ - Facilitated the planning of internal and external conferences and offsite meetings for departments across the firm.
- Provided onsite support during conferences and training programs.
- Coordinated and implemented an onsite training curriculum of 60 training courses a year.
- Maintained the back of the house registration, course calendar, employee and course database.
- Developed a training curriculum for internal employees entailing everything from general business skills to life and technology skills for all staff levels at the firm.
- Researched course ideas and outreach programs.
- Interfaced and maintained relationships with external instructors.
- Wrote and collaborated with coworkers on course descriptions.
- Directed departmental scheduling and project planning.
- Assisted the Senior Vice President of Leadership and Development with administrative support as needed. From June 2012 to January 2014 (1 year 8 months) Greater New York City AreaExecutive Assistant @ ÷ Organize and manage all aspects of several departmental events such as annual retreats, dinners, and other group activities.
÷ Coordinate the planning of internal and external conferences for several departments.
÷ Direct departmental scheduling and project planning.
÷ Serve as the main point of contact between the Managing Director of Risk Management and the department managers.
÷ Utilize computer programs such as Microsoft Office PowerPoint to process and revise presentations and reports. From February 2008 to June 2012 (4 years 5 months) Billing Coordinator @ ÷ Provided assistance to the Director of Finance with daily activities such as monitoring client budgets, meeting month-end deadlines, and coordinating client follow-ups.
÷ Handled daily client budget updates and billing support; processed monthly client invoices and responded to clients’ information requests.
÷ Utilized computer programs such as Microsoft Office Excel to track client fees and expenses and to assess and evaluate client activities.
÷ Performed balancing of monthly billing statements for existing clients after changes were entered into billing system and made adjustments as necessary. From May 2006 to January 2008 (1 year 9 months)
Certificate, Meeting Conference and Event Management @ NYU School of Continuing Education From 2009 to 2012 Bachelor of Science, Finance and Management @ University of Delaware - Lerner College of Business and Economics From 2002 to 2006 Jessica Purwin is skilled in: Event Planning, Event Management, Project Planning, Budgets, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Management, Training, Leadership
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