ASMAE BENMESSAOUD, Executive Assistant

ASMAE BENMESSAOUD

Executive Assistant

GENERAL ELECTRIC

Location
United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
Education
Diploma,
Experience
23 years, 10 Months

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Total years of experience :23 years, 10 Months

Executive Assistant at GENERAL ELECTRIC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since July 2011
Executive Assistant to CEO & CFO at Novartis Consumer Health
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • September 2010 to June 2011
PA to the Project Leader of Jumeirah Hills, Med Gate Tunis, Salam Marrakech Projects in SAMA Dubai L at Sama Dubai
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • October 2007 to January 2009

•Manage Project leader Calendar and email.
•Assist Project leader & provide secretarial services in administering and managing all paper work associated with projects.
•Screen incoming emails & telephone calls, action responses.
•Prepare minutes for the Portfolio team meeting.
•Ensure accurate and timely minutes are prepared and circulated between the team members.
•Coordinate Business trips (Internally & Externally).
•Prepare Business travel requests, Leaves, Business Travel Expense, Capex Authorisation, Petty Cash expense…
•Book meeting rooms.
•Prepare team’s Business Card and send them to the HR.
•Translate documents from French to English /English to French.
•Prepare memorandum and send it by mail, fax and Courier and circulate it internally.
•Deal with HR for interviewing new candidates (face to face & phone interview).
•Fully conversant with the activities of the Department in order to liaise with, on behalf of the Project Leader.
•Creation & maintenance of a filling system for the important & confidential documentation.

PA & Executive Secretary to the CEO at CELLUCOM FZCO - DUBAI
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • December 2005 to December 2007

•Ensures that all correspondence and reports are processed for the managing Director in a timely manner.
•Prepare the Meeting Agenda and diffuse to all the attendees.
•Provide support to meetings including minutes.
•Ensures that the standard office practices and routines of the Managing Director are functioning efficiently on an ongoing basis.
•Monitors and coordinates oral and written communication between the Managing Director and other Departments.
•Ensures proper filing and record keeping by accurately entering information in a timely manner consistent with office guidelines.
•Maintains calendars, schedules appointments, receives visitors and answers routine and often complex inquiries.
•To organize the travel arrangements and visas requirement.
•Ticketing & hotel Reservations.

Executive Secretary to the CEO at MAJID AL FUTTAIM DALKIA MIDDLE EAST LLC.
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • December 2004 to November 2005

•Ensures that all correspondence and reports are processed for the Chief Executive Officer in a timely manner.
•Prepare the Meeting Agenda and diffuse to all the attendees.
•Provide support to meetings including minutes and follow-up actions.
•Ensures that the standard office practices and routines of the Chief Executive Officer are functioning efficiently on an ongoing basis.
•Monitors and coordinates oral and written communication between the Chief Executive Officer and other employees.
•Ensures proper filing and record keeping by accurately entering information in a timely manner consistent with office guidelines.
•Maintains calendars, schedules appointments, receives visitors and answers routine and often complex inquiries.
•To organize the travel arrangements and visas requirement.
•Handling all the stationary requirements and printed materials.

PA & Operations Secretary to the Operations Director at MAJID AL FUTTAIM DALKIA MIDDLE EAST LLC.
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • July 2003 to December 2004

•Prepare the Agreements to all suppliers, subcontractors.
•Co-ordinate with finance department to pay the suppliers & to call them for cheques collection.
•Coordinate the sites managers Monthly Report.
•Arrange the staff training for all the sites.
•Assist executive staff to organize their time effectively.
•Prepare travel itineraries for executive staff.
•Prioritize incoming correspondence, including letters, memos and emails.
•Filter requests for appointments and arrange internal and external meetings and conference calls.
•Provide support to meetings including minutes and follow-up actions.
•Type letters, reports, presentations and other documents.
•Co-ordinate filing and general administrative work for executive staff.
•Greet visitors.
•Provide assistance to other staff.

Temporary Secretary in Leasing Department at MAJID AL FUTTAIM INVESTMENTS LLC.
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • May 2003 to June 2003

•Handle the leasing process with agreements.
•Type letters to the tenants for payments process.
•Maintain the diary of the Leasing director.
•Travel arrangement and visas formalities.
•Handle the calls from the tenants to assist their requirements.

RECEPTIONIST at Al Ounss International Tourist Resort
  • United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
  • May 2001 to May 2002

•Greet visitors
•Register visitors and notify appropriate staff of their arrival
•Answer telephone calls and transfer calls to appropriate staff
•Answer general enquiries about the organization
•Log and sort incoming mail and faxes
•Keep reception area tidy
•Make bookings for meetings and seminars
•Organize catering for staff meetings or functions
•Maintain telephone and staff location lists
•Oversee the use of the fax machine, photocopier and other office equipment
•Maintain and order office supplies as required
•May process travel and accommodation arrangements for staff and visitors
•May perform administrative tasks like typing, filing, photocopying, binding and laminating
•May look after a petty cash account
•Assist other administrative staff.

Sales Attendant at Woolworth & Westwood - SHARAF GROUP
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • October 1999 to April 2001

•To support the customer and attend them.
•Excellent communication skills.
•To understand the team development and demonstrate the ability to achieve results through people.
•Able to identify and implement business improvement solutions.
•To identify the customers needs and help them to take decision.
•Highly motivated, energetic, extremely personable, comfortable selling and working closely with prospect and customer executive management.

Flight Attendant at Saudi Arabian Airlines - KSA
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • March 1998 to August 1999

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FLIGHT ATTENDANT at ROYAL AIR MAROC - MOROCCO
  • Morocco - Casablanca
  • December 1997 to March 1998

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Education

Diploma,
  • at NADIA TRAINING INSTITUTE
  • April 2001

Certificate Secretarial Skills & Computer Techniques

Diploma,
  • at FLIGHT ATTENDANT TRAINING CENTER
  • September 1998

Certificate of Flight Attendant Training Center in –Rabat-

High school or equivalent,
  • at 1 Year in University Mohamed 5 Economical Section
  • April 1997

NA

High school or equivalent,
  • at LES ORANGERS LYCEE - RABAT
  • June 1996

Baccalaureate in Economical Section - RABAT

Specialties & Skills

Economics
Minutes
Certificate from NADIA TRAINING INSTITUTE – Sharjah

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
French
Expert

Memberships

NA
  • NA
  • February 2008