Head of Controlling & Risk Director

The Head Controlling & Risk leads the Controlling & Risk department and oversees a multidisciplinary team of approximately 20 employees organised across specialised risks The role is responsible for ensuring that credit market liquidity operational and related regulatory risks are identified monitored challenged and reported across the Group in line with the risk appetite defined by the Board of Directors. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Leadership and department management: define the departments priorities and operating model; lead coach and develop managers and teams; ensure effective resource allocation and continuous upskilling. 

• Risk governance and reporting: produce and present clear reports for the Risk Committee Executive Management and the Board of Directors; ensure adequate escalation of material risk developments incidents KRIs and remediation actions. 

• Risk framework ownership: maintain and continuously improve the Group risk management framework including policies methodologies risk appetite monitoring risk taxonomy controls and reporting standards; draft review and update risk policies procedures and governance documents. 

The Head Controlling & Risk provides strategic direction and effective challenge across the following areas acting as the senior point of contact for C&R teams other internal stakeholders governance bodies and regulators on Controlling & Risk matters: 

• Credit market and liquidity risks own investments: oversee concentration analysis limit monitoring stress testing RWA capital & liquidity planning and related risk indicators. 

• Credit and market risks client activities: oversee the monitoring of clients active in ETD trading lending and eFX trading including trading conditions margin parameters daily margin call analysis stress testing and market watch. 

• Operational risk management: oversee the identification assessment monitoring and reporting of operational risks excluding dedicated IT and AML topics where separate specialised functions exist; coordinate the RCSA framework KRIs incidents and action management monitoring. 

• Reconciliation activities: supervise the reconciliation of cash securities and cryptocurrencies with external counterparties and custodians ensuring timely escalation and remediation of discrepancies. 

• Consolidated supervision: contribute to Group-level oversight by ensuring consistent risk standards reporting and escalation across relevant entities and activities. 

• Regulatory relations: liaise with FINMA SIX and other relevant stakeholders on Controlling & Risk topics and oversee alignment with applicable regulatory requirements. 

• Projects change and new business initiatives: contribute to New Business Initiative risk analyses process improvements automation initiatives and risk-related transformation projects. 

• In-scope products and activities: mainstream securities including bonds equities structured products and precious metals; exchange-traded derivatives; cryptocurrencies and digital assets; eFX and interbank FX products including CFDs on multiple underlyings spot and forward FX. 

Qualifications :

• Masters degree in a relevant field;FRM CFA or equivalentis an asset. 

• 10 years of experience in a leadership position in banking financial services risk management or a related field ideally within a regulated and international financial institution.  

• Proven experience with responsibility for multiple risk disciplines and/or multidisciplinary teams.  

• Strong strategic leadership and experience managing multidisciplinary expert teams. 

• Broad expertise incredit market liquidity and operational riskwithin a banking environment. 

• Solid knowledge ofSwiss banking regulation FINMA expectations and Basel standards ideally within a Category 3 bank. 

• Strongstrategic thinking business acumen and judgement. 

• Pragmatic and solutions-oriented with the ability to balancerisk business growth and operational efficiency. 

• Strong communication presentation and writing skills including risk reports policies and Board-level materials 

• Confidentconstructive challenger with high integrity independence and credibility. 

• Technology-minded with a strong interest indigitalisation data and AI. 

• Additional assets: Understanding of ICT cyber and data-security risks. Experience withGRC platforms RCSA KRI and incident management workflows. Quantitative/model risk and stress-testing expertise. Data science AI and automation applied to risk monitoring and reporting. 

Additional Information :

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time