Trainee Programme "Legal and Compliance Officer" (m/f/d)

About the job

We offer you the opportunity to gain professional experience on the job during a 3-year employment. By changing the specialist area annually within FINMA, you will gain in-depth insights into different business areas of financial market supervision and continuously expand your expertise in asset management, banking, and enforcement.

• Support in the licensing of institutions such as banks, securities firms, fund management companies, collective asset managers, asset managers, trustees, and custodian banks as well as collective investment schemes
• Clarification of supervisory law issues and preparation of analyses taking into account the latest developments in financial markets and the associated risks
• Investigation and assessment of possible violations of financial market law provisions and enforcement of supervisory law
• Participation in any legislative revisions
• Representation of the financial market supervision at the forefront, taking on responsibility and further developing the practice of the supervisory authority

• Completed Master’s degree in law at a Swiss university as well as a Swiss bar admission or a doctorate
• Very good academic performance
• Strong analytical and communication skills
• Very high level of commitment, initiative, and sense of responsibility
• Very good German or French skills (C2) as well as good knowledge of the other language (B2) and good English skills (B2)

Marie-Reine Atsama will be happy to provide information.

FINMA supervises the Swiss financial market. It protects the interests of investors, creditors, and insured persons and contributes to the stability and competitiveness of financial market participants through its supervision. More than 800 competent and motivated employees are committed to this every day.

We are looking for a motivated person for the position starting 1 November 2026