Francesco Patroncini

• Proficient in PowerPoint presentations skills; attended courses at Università Bocconi to craft my presentation skills, improved thanks to team-assignments in Canada and Italy, during my first year of Master's, and during my internship at AXA Partners.
• Produced materials to be shown during the Executive Committee's meetings at AXA Partners.

• Proficient in Microsoft Excel. Awarded the ECDL Advanced Certification and attended several courses at University for financial uses of the software (Financial Applications for Microsoft Excel).
• Improved this skill especially during my Financial Statement Analysis teamwork during the BSc, where my team and I crafted a financial model to value a company; during my Entrepreneurial Finance teamwork in Canada, where I designed the whole financial model and capital structure of a new start-up; during my internship at AXA Assistance, in the analysis of P&L, BS and asset depreciation.

Working knowledge of Liferay CMS.
• Used to create pages and upload content directly on the B2C website of AXA Travel Insurance in Italy.

Proficient user of Microsoft Word.
• Attended courses at Università Bocconi to improve my knowledge of the software; used it intensely during my BSc thesis writing and internship at AXA Assistance.

Full proficiency and working knowledge of English.
• 3 months summer internship in Redhill, UK.
• 6 months in Canada at The University of British Columbia, GPA 4.0/4.0
• Final undergraduate dissertation written in academic English.
• IELTS Band 8/9 in 2014.
• First Certificate (A) in 2011.

Mothertongue

Attended classes during my Undergraduate studies. Currently attending a Business French course at University.
• 30 cum laude/30 Bocconi Undergraduate French exam, certified B1 level.
• Studied French during secondary school (middle school).

• During AA 2017-2018 I will serve as CEMS Club Milan President, voted by my classmates. I will lead and coordinate a team of 18 people between 5 divisions to organise multiple events.
• At University, I served as class representative for the MSc in International Management, dealing with the requests of an incredibly diverse classroom, with professors and course director.
• At high school, I served for three consecutive years as class representative. I showed maturity while bridging the requests of my classmates and professors despite the young age.
• At high school, I was captain of the track and field team during 1st year and the Ski team from 3rd to 5th.

Over the years I have constantly developed my ability to understand other people's feelings and tried to offer my support to improve team cohesion and solve internal conflicts.
• During my time in Vancouver, I was part of a multicultural team made of Chinese, Arab and Russian students, and had to bridge between different interests and personal conflicts among them.

• Working for Radio Bocconi during my BSc taught how to overcome the fear of speaking in public, communicate with large audiences and interact with them. As a student representative, I learnt how to deal with enquiries made by students and professors.
• Thanks to my experiences abroad during high school, my semester in Canada and my internship in the UK, I learnt how to deal with people coming from different countries, backgrounds and cultures. Being exposed to different cultures taught me how to deal with cultural differences and change my communication style depending on the audience.
• During my internship at AXA Assistance my tutor remarked the quality of my presentation skills and the ability to easily convey messages regardless of how complex the underlying reasoning and analysis are.