Job Type: Full Time
Years of Experience: 2-5 Years
Degree Required: Bachelors
Industry: Finance & Investment
Job Function: Investment Banking & Advisory
Job Description

Description:
Meredith Whitney Advisory Group LLC (MWAG) seeks an experienced Executive Assistant, who will report directly to the Chief Executive Officer. The Executive Assistant is able to handle a wide array or tasks and responsibilities, with little or no supervision. The candidate must have attention to detail, be extremely well-organized, prioritize effectively, and thrive in a small company environment, where team members are able to perform multiple functions.

The candidate will manage multiple administrative functions in a fast-paced environment, while staying flexible, resourceful, effective, and efficient. Excellent communication and written skills as well as critical thinking are equally important.

Expectations:
• Manage the CEO’s calendar, coordinating the scheduling of all travel, meetings, and conference calls
• Communicate with other executives and their assistants, establishing supportive relationships
• Answer the phone lines and direct incoming calls to the appropriate person effectively and efficiently
• Able to manage time effectively, multi-task, and make deadlines
• Develop spreadsheets, presentations, and written documents as requested
• Proactively seek solutions to office management and administrative problems
• Create meeting notes, agendas, and biographies on meeting attendees to prepare management
• Email messages for management as directed

Qualifications:
• 3+ years experience as an assistant at the executive level
• Ability to manage executive’s calendar, including the creation of meeting biographies/notes, and travel coordination
• Strong knowledge of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
• High energy, self-starter, with the appropriate sense of urgency while maintaining high quality work
• Excellent verbal and communication skills
• Bachelor’s degree
• Prior experience in sales, marketing, or in executive assistant roles

This role is for full-time hire. We are based in New York, NY. If interested, please send a copy of your resume and cover letter

Comments (34)

  1. Posted by Zachery Kouwe | June 15, 2010 at 11:59 AM

    Bess, would you please provide a reference?

  2. Posted by Anonymous | June 15, 2010 at 12:00 PM

    Meredith Whitney: “The details of your incompetence do not interest me. Tell Simone I’m not going to approve that girl that she sent me for the Brazilian wax. I asked for clean, athletic, smiling; she sent me dirty, tired and paunchy. And RSVP yes to Vickram Pandit’s party, I want the driver to drop me off at 9:30 and pick me up at 9:45 sharp. Then call Natalie at JP Morgan and tell her no, for the 40th time, no, I don’t want synthetic condor/long eagle spreads, I want long punts filled with AAA ratings. Then call my husband and remind him that the parent/teacher conference at Dalton tonight. Then call my husband. Ask him to please meet me for dinner at that place I went to with Larry Kudlow. Also, tell Richard I saw all the pictures that he sent for that feature on the female investment bankers and they’re all so deeply unattractive. Is it impossible to find a lovely, slender, female banker? Am I reaching for the stars here? Not really. What about that Debrahlee person in Dealbreaker the other day? Also I need to see all the things that Nigel has pulled for Gundlach’s second business try. I wonder if he’s lost any of that weight yet?”

  3. Posted by american bandersnatch | June 15, 2010 at 12:01 PM

    Qualifications are “Experience: 2-5 years” and “3+ years experience”. Whoever wrote this is due for a whipping.

  4. Posted by guest | June 15, 2010 at 12:01 PM

    @2 The wife made me watch that one, too.

  5. Posted by Bess Levin | June 15, 2010 at 12:05 PM

    @2 I love you.

  6. Posted by Anonymous | June 15, 2010 at 12:06 PM

    makes me think of The Devil Wears Prada….

  7. Posted by Perkins Maxwell | June 15, 2010 at 12:06 PM

    thank you ma’am may I have another

  8. Posted by american bandersnatch | June 15, 2010 at 12:07 PM

    @4 – Didn’t get the ending. Why did she quit?
    - Guy who left a trail of dead bodies behind in his climb to position of head bootblack.

  9. Posted by NakedShort | June 15, 2010 at 12:12 PM

    MW: Sue Ellen, have you ever had a 48 hour orgasm?
    SE: No I’ve never gone dildo testing with Gundlach.

  10. Posted by The Gimp | June 15, 2010 at 12:13 PM

    Should my cover letter include my safe word or will it be assigned at the interview?

  11. Posted by Anonymous | June 15, 2010 at 12:15 PM

    @ 5 I love you more than 2… I’m just saying

  12. Posted by Anonymous | June 15, 2010 at 12:22 PM

    I’d take it just to get closer to her husband. What a hot piece of man meat he is – and you know MW has already broken him in.

    The Gay Banker

  13. Posted by Anonymous | June 15, 2010 at 12:33 PM

    Meredith is first seen after Bond wakes up in Vikram Pandit’s private jet after previously having been knocked out with a tranquilizer gun. Her stunning blonde-framed visage leaning over him being the first thing he sees as he lies on a couch regaining consciousness, the dialog runs as follows:

    James Bond: Who are you?

    Meredith Whitney: My name is Meredith Whitney.

    James Bond: I must be dreaming.

  14. Posted by Anonymous | June 15, 2010 at 12:42 PM

    i’ve got 3+ years experience directing incoming calls effectively AND efficiently.

  15. Posted by Bike | June 15, 2010 at 12:43 PM

    Koewe should apply. He could probably bang out a lot of reports for her

  16. Posted by Anonymous | June 15, 2010 at 12:48 PM

    There’s no mention of a safety word in the posting. That’s too hardcore for me.

  17. Posted by Anal_yst | June 15, 2010 at 12:53 PM

    @13

    Guess I”m not the only one who watched Goldfinger this weekend. Also, @2, great effort, but MW should have read http://www.leveragedsellout.com/2006/05/how-to-get-a-banker-chick-for-the-non-banker-guy/ re: banker chicks.

    @NS, nice DTMTBSD reference.

  18. Posted by Anonymous | June 15, 2010 at 12:55 PM

    Must be able to recite the names of all the current WWE “wrestlers”.

  19. Posted by Jeffries 4 life | June 15, 2010 at 1:01 PM

    Given my pedigree, I feel that I am qualified to apply.

    - Jeffries analys

  20. Posted by Anonymous | June 15, 2010 at 1:06 PM

    I AM Raymond James……HIRED!

  21. Posted by CoveredLong | June 15, 2010 at 1:06 PM

    @6 – Agreed, but at MW Advisors, only if the assistant’s name is Prada.

    -Guy who hopes ZK will not give MW his IP address

  22. Posted by Anonymous | June 15, 2010 at 1:08 PM

    2 very good candidates:

    1. The Bank Babe from Citi

    or

    2. Dennis Kneale as he is gonna be out at CNBC very soon and he needs a good strap-on ride daily

  23. Posted by Anonymous | June 15, 2010 at 1:11 PM
  24. Posted by guest | June 15, 2010 at 1:14 PM

    A week after their initial meeting, the couple went out. They enjoyed talking so much they lingered over dinner for hours. ”After that I called her about 25 times a day,” Mr. Layfield said. ”Meredith came along at a time in my life when I really needed somebody badly,” he added. ”She took a country boy like me and kind of refined me. I know what fork to use now at the dinner table, and I drink my beer from a glass.”

    That refinement process, Mr. Layfield recalled, was set in motion on their first date, when he asked Ms. Whitney if it would be acceptable to wear jeans and a sleeveless shirt to the restaurant.

  25. Posted by OptionsTrader | June 15, 2010 at 1:26 PM

    Damn, after Zach Kouwe found out where I ‘worked’ with my IP, I might have to apply.

  26. Posted by Anonymous | June 15, 2010 at 2:19 PM

    What does multiple functions mean?

  27. Posted by DietMountainDew | June 15, 2010 at 2:20 PM

    @Anal_yst stop sucking everyone’s dick and apply already. Everyone at the company gets an equity stake, true story. I’ve been told she has a soft side.

  28. Posted by why work | June 15, 2010 at 2:34 PM

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    http://tinyurl.com/258gxz3

  29. Posted by Shitting on Tryon St | June 15, 2010 at 2:45 PM

    I’m applying if only to get some corner office sex DP style.

  30. Posted by big t | June 15, 2010 at 3:19 PM

    @2 sounds like the opening scene of Phone Booth?

  31. Posted by Anonymous | June 15, 2010 at 6:45 PM
  32. Posted by Chaz | June 15, 2010 at 8:04 PM

    Would you consider a really hairy guy ?

  33. Posted by Anonymous | June 15, 2010 at 8:44 PM

    Shut the fuck up Kouwanal_yst!

  34. Posted by Anonymous | June 16, 2010 at 9:19 AM

    interviewed with her firm when it first launched. she had a vp with 1 year of total experience telling me, a seasoned analyst of 3, about pitch books etc. guess her exec assistant from a year and a half ago quit

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