Legal Advisor for Bank and Securities House Authorizations (m/f/d)
Eidgenössische Finanzmarktaufsicht (FINMA)
Bern
Key information
- Publication date:03 June 2025
- Workload:100%
- Contract type:Unlimited employment
- Place of work:Bern
Job summary
Join FINMA to manage your own portfolio of banks and securities firms. This role offers exciting projects and a collaborative work environment.
Tasks
- Independently handle authorization changes for banks, including restructuring.
- Support thrilling authorization projects and lead new procedures.
- Serve as a liaison to project leaders and regulatory authorities.
Skills
- University degree in law with extensive financial market law experience.
- Strong analytical and judgment skills for independent case management.
- Excellent communication skills in French, with knowledge of German and English.
Is this helpful?
Do you want to leverage your industry knowledge by managing your own portfolio of banks and securities houses and take responsibility for institutions, from authorization to the end of the regulation? Then this position is for you.
Main Tasks
- Independent processing of changes to authorization conditions concerning banks (in particular, changes in management, adjustments to regulations, and restructurings).
- Support for exciting authorization projects and management of new authorization procedures for banks and securities houses.
- Point of contact for project managers, regulated entities, legal representatives, audit firms, and foreign supervisory authorities.
- Examination of interesting legal issues related to corporate governance as well as the regulation of innovative business models.
- Close collaboration with the supervisory areas and cross-functional roles of FINMA.
Required Profile
- Completed university education in law, with solid experience in financial market law.
- Good knowledge of the operational and legal conditions for the appropriate organization of a bank.
- Several years of experience in financial market law within a bank, an audit firm, a regulatory authority, or a law firm.
- Well-developed analytical and judgment skills, as well as the ability to manage files independently.
- Excellent communication and persuasion skills with both internal and external stakeholders.
- Professional attitude and ability to work independently and in a structured manner.
- Very good knowledge of the French language (C2) and good knowledge of German and English (B2).
Prospects
Janine Barrios will be happy to provide you with information.
FINMA is responsible for the supervision of the Swiss financial market. It protects creditors, investors, and policyholders, and ensures the proper functioning of financial markets. In doing so, it contributes to improving the reputation, competitiveness, and viability of the Swiss financial center. It is to fulfill this mission that more than 700 competent and motivated employees engage every day.
We offer you a position within the Banks division.
