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Elia Schärer

Elia Schärer

Zumikon

Summary

Experienced banking professional with a background in sales coaching, sales management and finance analytics focusing on proposing the right solution to the right clients.

Former professional alpine skier and therefore willing, hard-working and motivated to go the extra mile to deliver strong results.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Sales Coach / Business Development

Bank Julius Bär
08.2022 - Current
  • Sales Coach for the front to strategically develop their client books through client book analysis and systematic business development
  • Conceptualized and developed business development tools (sales tools) (with more than 1500 monthly front users) which supports the front to identify key opportunities (investment ideas, client interactions, NNM Potential, revenue potential or cost reductions) in their client book and structure their sales approach
  • Led +100 workshops, trainings, and co-creation sessions in areas including client book analysis, strategic book planning, product sales best practices, lead offering and product sales stories
  • Led and implemented multiple strategic sales initiatives related to NNM, Discretionary mandates, recurring revenues, pricing, alternative investments, small clients etc. while bridging expertise from IWMS, Finance and Risk departments
  • Team lead of 3 external consultants working on the further development of the sales tools

Business & Financial Analyst

Bank Julius Bär (Freelancer)
03.2019 - 07.2022
  • Project manager within the finance analytics team to provide a globally consolidated data basis and regularly monitor, measure and manage the financial results of the private banking business (Global MIS)
  • Responsible project manager for 6 external consultants
  • Co-lead of all IWMS, Risk, HR related applications and projects within Global MIS
  • Co-lead in the conception and roll-out of the finance analytics strategy
  • Ad-hoc senior management analyses and reporting on net new money flows, product flows, profit contribution, cost management etc.
  • Stakeholder management across senior management, functions, divisions and front units
  • Project lead in rolling out the mobile version of the Global MIS portal
  • Conceptual development and lead in implementing first interactive tableau dashboards within Global MIS

Project Manager

Advaisor AG
01.2020 - 09.2020
  • Supporting the Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Growth Officer in restructuring, business development and sales of an AI based NLP software which is specialized on measuring and transforming corporate cultures using non-opinion-based data from digital communication.

Management and Technology Consulting Intern

BearingPoint
07.2017 - 10.2018
  • Advised a large manufacturing company in a M&A project as a member of the project management work stream
  • Supported a firm-wide strategic initiative to improve and enlarge BearingPoint's consulting business by integrating a new business unit
  • Supported a manufacturing enterprise in the implementation of a cloud-based predictive maintenance solution.

Professional alpine skier

Swiss Ski Junior team
06.2009 - 04.2016
  • +30h training a week
  • Several Top 3 rankings in Swiss National Junior Races

Education

B.A. HSG - Business Administration

University of St. Gallen (HSG)
St. Gallen
09.2020

Exchange semester -

Bayes Business School
London
12.2019

Graduation Diploma - Matura, Economics and Law

Swiss Olympic Sport School
Davos
06.2014

Skills

committed, ambitious, proactive, organized, analytically thinking, open-minded, networker, empathic, communicative, team-player, conscientious

Timeline

Sales Coach / Business Development

Bank Julius Bär
08.2022 - Current

Project Manager

Advaisor AG
01.2020 - 09.2020

Business & Financial Analyst

Bank Julius Bär (Freelancer)
03.2019 - 07.2022

Management and Technology Consulting Intern

BearingPoint
07.2017 - 10.2018

Professional alpine skier

Swiss Ski Junior team
06.2009 - 04.2016

B.A. HSG - Business Administration

University of St. Gallen (HSG)

Exchange semester -

Bayes Business School

Graduation Diploma - Matura, Economics and Law

Swiss Olympic Sport School
Elia Schärer