Head of Controlling & Risk - Director

Swissquote; Lavamünd; Hybrid; EUR 150.000 - 210.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Swissquote is seeking a Head Controlling & Risk to lead a multidisciplinary team across risk disciplines. You will shape the risk framework, governance, and reporting to executive leadership and the Board. This role entails overseeing credit, market, liquidity and operational risk, and coordinating with regulators on Basel and FINMA expectations.

You will drive risk culture, strategic decision-making and continuous improvement of risk controls within a fast-growing digital bank.

Qualifikationen

• Master's degree in a relevant field is required or an equivalent.
• Minimum 10+ years in a leadership role within banking or risk management.
• Experience with multiple risk disciplines and leading multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong strategic leadership, business acumen and judgment.
• Solid knowledge of Swiss banking regulation, FINMA and Basel standards.
• Ability to translate risk insights into board-level materials.

Aufgaben

• Provide leadership and department management across Controlling & Risk.
• Govern risk reporting to Risk Committee, Executive Management and Board.
• Own and improve the Group risk management framework and policies.
• Coordinate risk taxonomy, KRIs, incidents and remediation actions.
• Oversee credit, market, liquidity, and operational risk activities.
• Liaise with regulators and ensure regulatory alignment.

Kenntnisse

Leadership

Risk management

Strategic thinking

Regulatory knowledge

Communication

Stakeholder management

Ausbildung

Master's degree

Jobbeschreibung

At Swissquote, we’re all in.
All in to shake things up. All in to build the bank people actually want to use. All in to make finance less boring — and a lot more powerful.

We’re Switzerland’s leading digital bank — 1,500+ people across Europe, the Middle East and Asia, building real financial solutions for over a million clients worldwide. From trading and investing to everyday banking, we cover the full picture. We move fast, but we build things we’re genuinely proud of. Have a look behind the scenes by checkingHumans ofSwissquote on Instagram.

Growing fast creates room. Room to try things, own things, and grow at a pace most places can’t offer. Whether you like the spotlight or prefer to just put your head down and do great work, there’s space for both here.

We’ve ditched the dress code — but never the chance to celebrate. Big win or small, we make it count. The kind of place where the atmosphere takes care of itself.

As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome candidates from all backgrounds, experiences and perspectives to join our team and contribute to our shared success.

Job Description

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 department’s 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

Master's 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.