Business Development Executive (Italian Desk)

  • Full-time

Company Description

We are Swissquote and we challenge the code to deliver innovative services & products that make financial opportunities accessible to everyone.

We deliver our services to + 450’000 clients who can trade over 3 million products through performant and secured platforms.

As well as various online trading products (stocks, cryptocurrencies, bonds, funds, derivative products…), we provide Forex, Robo-Advisory and Mortgages solutions.
That makes us the Swiss Leader in online Banking!

Join our 1000 employees all over the world to accelerate your career in fast-moving and rock-solid company! We keep on growing and at the end of June 2022, Swissquote held over 50 billion Swiss francs in assets for more than 520,000 private and institutional clients.

Follow Humans of Swissquote to discover our people & culture!

Job Description

Swissquote Ltd, the London-based subsidiary of Swissquote Bank, provides online Forex, commodities, stock indices and bonds trading services.

We are looking for a positive and adaptive hard worker, Italian mother tongue, to join our growing Italian sales force. We offer our Italian sales an unparalleled opportunity to operate in an international sales environment with a great team aside and success driven peers.

 

Your daily tasks include:

  • Convert prospects in to clients, adopt a proactive approach to grow your client base through clients referrals and networking.
  • Ensure that allocated clients are contacted regularly and managed effectively in such a way as to justify the value of your service.
  • Educate clients to our products and services, organize and lead webinars, sales events for clients/prospects as required. This includes creating appropriate material in conjunction with marketing team.
  • Plan and execute social media engagement, via post and recordings as directed by Head of Desk, provide market commentaries, and other PR functions where required.
  • Occasionally Entertaining clients (and prospects) at sporting or cultural events, which will include “out-of-hours” commitment on evenings and weekends, as part of your relationship management expectations.
  • Dealing with both your allocated and personally recruited clients as well as covering for colleagues’ client bases where necessary, adopt a firm and consistent approach towards resolving issues encountered and raised by clients.
  • It may be necessary to work on bank holidays although time off is earned in lieu for this.

 

The Key Performance Indicators are:

  • Trading revenue from allocated clients and converted prospects
  • Cross selling and up selling of CFD products
  • Number of new accounts opened, funded and activated
  • Remuneration is a combination of fixed and variable

Qualifications

 

  • Previous experience in the Forex, CFD or Financial Industry for a minimum of 3 year
  • Excellent knowledge and experience of financial markets
  • Native Italian, Professional English Skills
  • An over achiever, resilient, enthusiastic and self-motivated
  • Excellent telephone manner, interpersonal and negotiation skills
  • Very well organised with good time management skills
  • Able to take proactive action when necessary
  • Pays attention to detail
  • Computer literate in Microsoft Office packages

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