Junior Executive Assistant

About the job

Have you completed a degree in economics or law and want to combine strategy, regulation and finance? Do you want to work directly alongside the CEO and learn from the management of a dynamic team? Then I have just the right opportunity for you at a specialised Swiss financial services provider in Zurich!

Junior Executive Assistant

About the position

As a Junior Executive Assistant, you will become the central interface between management, the operational departments and external partners, taking on the following tasks:

Your tasks

• Preparing documents: You collect data, create reports and build clear presentations and decision documents for management.
• Documenting processes: You check data flows in the systems, record processes in writing and consistently follow up on deadlines.
• Handling fund representation: You send standard contracts for foreign funds, perform basic checks during onboarding and ensure invoicing.
• Preparing regulatory queries: You gather information for regulatory authorities and answer open questions regarding legal requirements.
• Recalculating figures: You assist with fund value calculation (NAV), support accounting and maintain risk data in spreadsheets.

Must-haves

• Education: Completed degree (Bachelor or Master) in economics, law or a comparable field.
• Working style: High conscientiousness, strong process understanding and enjoyment in deeply questioning connections ("why question").
• Languages: Business fluent German (native level) and very good English (at least B2).

Nice-to-haves:

• Financial knowledge: Initial experience with investment funds, accounting, risk management or FinTech topics.
• Tool skills: Confident use of MS Excel and PowerPoint for data analysis and reporting.

Benefits:

• Direct collaboration with the CEO
• No silo thinking: 360-degree insight into the financial sector
• Flat hierarchies & short communication paths in a 15-person team
• Central workplace in Zurich

Our recruitment process

• Online test on logic and personality
• First telephone interview
• Online interview with our recruitment team
• Online interview with the hiring managers
• Mutual meeting on site
• Welcome to Academic Work!