Head of Controlling & Risk - Director

Swissquote; Vaud; Vor Ort; CHF 140.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Swissquote is seeking a Head Controlling & Risk to lead the Controlling & Risk department, directing a multidisciplinary team across specialised risks and regulatory interfaces. The role demands strategic oversight of governance, risk framework ownership and reporting to the Board.

You will oversee credit, market and liquidity risks as well as operational risk, and supervise reconciliation activities. This position requires coordinating with FINMA, SIX and other stakeholders to ensure regulatory

Qualifikationen

• Leadership and department management: define priorities, lead managers and teams; ensure resource allocation and upskilling.
• Risk governance and reporting: produce clear reports for Risk Committee, Exec Management and the Board; escalate material risks.
• Risk framework ownership: maintain the risk framework, policies, risk appetite monitoring and governance documents.
• Credit, market and liquidity risks – own investments: oversee concentration analysis, stress testing, capital and liquidity planning.
• Credit and market risks – client activities: monitor ETD trading, lending and eFX trading conditions and margin parameters.
• Operational risk management: oversee identification, assessment, monitoring and reporting of operational risks.
• Reconciliation activities: supervise cash, securities and crypto reconciliations with counterparties.
• Consolidated supervision: ensure consistent risk standards across entities.
• Regulatory relations: liaise with FINMA, SIX on Controlling & Risk topics.
• Projects, change and new

Aufgaben

• 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; 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.
• 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

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 ofSwissquoteon 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.

Feeling it? It’s a good start.

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