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Raoul Turra

Head of Business Technology & Digital Services
Volketswil,Zurich
Raoul Turra

Summary

Perceptive Senior Business Analyst with 30 years driving successful business processes for financial companies. Dedicated to maximizing impact of key performance metrics to enhance and expand business operations. Known for leveraging both macro and micro-scale analyses to generate holistic images of ongoing business operations for immediate actionability.

Overview

33
years of professional experience

Work History

Quilvest (Switzerland) Ltd.

Head Business Technology & Digital Services
03.2008 - Current

Job overview

  • Managing stakeholder expectations through transparent communication and timely status updates, ensuring alignment between project deliverables and business objectives.
  • Creating detailed user stories for system enhancements, leading to improved functionality and user satisfaction.
  • Facilitating requirement gathering workshops, resulting in clear project objectives and deliverables.
  • Improving project efficiency by analyzing business processes and identifying areas for improvement.
  • Managing approximately 50 emails, phone calls, and questions a day

Conproma AG
Hinwil, Zurich

CEO & Project Leader
01.2005 - 02.2008

Job overview

  • Actively participated in team meetings to share knowledge, exchange ideas, address challenges, and collaborate on potential solutions.
  • Interacted with internal customers to understand business needs and translate into requirements and project scope.
  • Supported software development projects by defining clear requirements and effectively communicating them to technical teams.
  • Implemented best-practice methodologies that improved overall project delivery timelines while maintaining quality standards.
  • Increased resource efficiency by analyzing detailed business requirements.
  • User and client coaching

SIF-Société Internationale De Finance
Zurich, Switzerland

Deputy IT Manager
07.2000 - 12.2004

Job overview

  • Improved customer satisfaction levels with the development and implementation of user-friendly interfaces and applications.
  • Established a culture of continuous improvement within the IT department through regular performance evaluations and skill development opportunities.
  • Reduced downtime with proactive monitoring, maintenance, and troubleshooting of IT systems.
  • Accelerated software development lifecycles by adopting agile methodologies, improving time-to-market for critical projects.
  • Trained staff members on computer use and updated systems.
  • Led agile teams to deliver products quickly and to respond to user requirements.
  • Consolidation of assets for client reporting

SIF-Société Internationale De Finance
Zurich, Switzerland

Group Accountant
01.1999 - 06.2000

Job overview

  • Promoted transparency among international departments by clearly communicating financial results during regular meetings with stakeholders.
  • Played integral role in successful mergers and acquisitions by conducting thorough due diligence reviews and providing insightful recommendations.
  • Detected and corrected mistakes early on and implemented systems to avoid recurring issues.
  • Used advanced software to prepare documents, reports, and presentations.
  • Private markets controlling

SIF-Société Internationale De Finance
Zurich, Switzerland

Account Manager
10.1991 - 12.1998

Job overview

  • Handled day-to-day accounting processes to drive financial accuracy.
  • Reconciled accounts and reviewed expense data, net worth, and assets.
  • Documented cash, credit, fixed assets, accrued expenses, and line of credit transactions.
  • Gathered financial information, prepared documents, and closed books.
  • Identified areas of operational inefficiency through careful analysis of company performance metrics, recommending actionable improvement measures.

Education

SQL Basic Course
Hegnau

Education from Information Technology
06.2000

Various Internal And External Courses
Zurich, Paris

Various from Ticketing, Documentation And Private Markets
01.2000

University Overview

Microsoft Office Products (external)

Private Markets (internal)

Confluence & Jira (internal)

SWIFT

etc.

Kantonsschule Hottingen (Cantonal High School)
Zurich

High School Diploma
04.1991

Skills

  • Requirements Gathering
  • Agile Methodology
  • Performance analysis GIPS/ SPPS
  • Private Markets Specialist
  • Communication
  • Collaboration platform Confluence
  • Ticketing Jira
  • User Acceptance Testing
  • Business Process Mapping
  • Data Analysis Expertise
  • Project Management
  • Release planning
  • Process Optimization

Languages

English
Advanced (C1)
French
Advanced (C1)
Italian
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
German
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
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Work Preference

Work Type

Full Time

Work Location

HybridOn-Site

Important To Me

Work-life balanceCompany Culture

Interests

Football/ Soccer, Ice-hockey, in general sports

Family & friends

Food & gooking, Grill parties

Get-together

Software

Corebanking system NewBanking

Portfolio Management System WiZE

Atlassian Collaboration Platform (Confluence & Jira)

Mobile App API's

Digitalization software Flowable

SWIFT

MS Dynamics Navision

MS Office Product Family

Hyparchiv DMS

Timeline

Head Business Technology & Digital Services

Quilvest (Switzerland) Ltd.
03.2008 - Current

CEO & Project Leader

Conproma AG
01.2005 - 02.2008

Deputy IT Manager

SIF-Société Internationale De Finance
07.2000 - 12.2004

Group Accountant

SIF-Société Internationale De Finance
01.1999 - 06.2000

Account Manager

SIF-Société Internationale De Finance
10.1991 - 12.1998

SQL Basic Course

Education from Information Technology

Various Internal And External Courses

Various from Ticketing, Documentation And Private Markets

Kantonsschule Hottingen (Cantonal High School)

High School Diploma
Raoul TurraHead of Business Technology & Digital Services