About the role

  • Risk Manager monitoring market, credit, and third-party risks for international bank in Zürich. Responsible for compliance, data quality, and developing risk management framework.

Responsibilities

  • Controlling and monitoring of market, credit and third‑party risks and their risk limits
  • Steering and limiting potential losses in the business units
  • Ensuring regulatory requirements of the authorities are met
  • Controlling and monitoring liquidity metrics, liquidity ratios and analysis of cash flows as well as liquidity risk
  • Recording and analysis of risk incidents
  • Ongoing reporting of risk figures to senior management
  • Responsible for optimal data quality, error tracking and maintenance of databases
  • Assessment of key controls from a risk perspective and support for line managers
  • Ensuring compliance of transactions with internal and external policies
  • Continuous liaison with departments to strengthen risk awareness
  • Contribution to the further development of the integrated risk management framework
  • Preparation of Risk Committee meetings
  • Maintenance of risk systems
  • Ad hoc projects.

Requirements

  • Master’s degree in Quantitative Finance or Business Administration
  • CPA, CFA or FRM advantageous
  • Professional experience in risk controlling at a bank or at a Big Four firm
  • Good knowledge of banking processes and regulatory understanding of operational risks and resilience
  • Experience in analyzing market, credit and liquidity risks in a bank
  • Professional experience with risk management methods and techniques
  • Analytical mindset with strong conceptual skills
  • Team-oriented with high personal responsibility
  • Efficient, flexible and independent working style, also under pressure
  • Discretion and trustworthiness
  • IT affinity and Power BI skills
  • Proficient with banking software (e.g. SimCorp, Avaloq, Finnova) and MS Office (Excel)
  • German and English.

Benefits

  • No specific benefits listed

Job title

Controller, Risk Limits

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Postgraduate Degree

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