We are looking for a 6 month maternity replacement to support our motivated team in Zurich!

As "Financial Risk Specialist - Financial Risk Management", you will play a key role in shaping the key processes for managing SIX's financial risks. As part of the CRO organization and thus the "Second Line of Defense", you will contribute to the monitoring and reporting of counterparty risks across the organization, perform relevant controls to ensure compliance with all internal and regulatory directives and contribute to further develop the concepts of credit, market and liquidity risk management, thereby making a significant contribution to the stability and security of the Swiss financial market infrastructure. 

What You Will Do 

• daily monitoring of relevant market indicators on all counterparties across the organization delivered to senior management and relevant stakeholders
• collaboration and improvement in the ongoing risk monitoring as well as control tasks and analyses from the financial risk management area
• elaboration and further development of Financial Risk Management concepts and directives to ensure best market practice and regulatory compliance 
• perform monthly and quarterly financial risk controls and contribute to the comment of relevant Risk Reports (Dashboards) for Management Committees and Regulators
• preparation of ad hoc analyses, presentations of results for the decision-making bodies and supervisory authorities as well as leading smaller projects in the area of the financial risk management and in cooperation with the first line of defense (risk management operations, treasury etc.)

What You Bring

• minimum 2 years of practical work experience in the financial risk area, University degree in economics (Uni, FH) or equivalent; a master in finance is an advantage
• high level of initiative, independence and flexibility as well as a pronounced awareness of work quality
• very good analytical and conceptual thinking, goal and result-oriented working methods as well as strong ability to deal and communicate with different stakeholders
• programming skills such as PBI, SQL, VBA and R are a valuable plus
• very good English language skills in spoken and written form