Legal Officer for Bank and Securities Firms Authorizations (m/f/d)
Eidgenössische Finanzmarktaufsicht (FINMA)
Bern
Key information
- Publication date:15 October 2025
- Workload:100%
- Contract type:Unlimited employment
- Place of work:Bern
Job summary
Manage your own portfolio of banks and securities houses! Exciting opportunity with FINMA, a key player in Swiss financial market oversight.
Tasks
- Independently handle authorization condition changes for banks.
- Support exciting authorization projects and lead new procedures.
- Act as a liaison for project leads, legal reps, and audit firms.
Skills
- University degree in law with strong financial market law experience.
- Excellent communication and persuasion skills with stakeholders.
- Solid analytical abilities and autonomous case management.
Is this helpful?
Do you want to leverage your sector knowledge by managing your own portfolio of banks and securities firms and take responsibility for institutions, from authorization to the end of supervision? Then this position is for you.
Main tasks
- Independent processing of changes to authorization conditions concerning banks (in particular changes in bodies, adaptations of regulations, and restructurings).
- Support for exciting authorization projects and management of new authorization procedures for banks and securities firms.
- Contact person for project managers, supervised entities, legal representatives, audit firms, and foreign supervisory authorities.
- Review of interesting legal issues related to corporate governance as well as the supervision of innovative business models.
- Close collaboration with the FINMA supervisory areas and cross-functional departments.
Required profile
- Complete university education in law, with solid experience in financial market law.
- Good knowledge of the operational and legal conditions for the proper organization of a bank.
- Several years of experience in financial market law within a bank, audit firm, authority, or law firm.
- 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 French (C2) and good knowledge of German and English (B2).
Prospects
Janine Barrios will be happy to provide you with information.
FINMA is responsible for supervising the Swiss financial market. It protects creditors, investors, and insured persons, and ensures the proper functioning of the financial markets. In doing so, it helps to improve the reputation, competitiveness, and viability of the Swiss financial center. More than 700 competent and motivated employees are committed every day to fulfilling this mission.
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