Live Trade Credit Analyst sought by Leading Swiss Financial Institution – Zurich recruitment

The role will be sitting with the traders in the front office issuing controls based on the potential risks. Successful candidates will have the chance to directly impact the performance of the trading desk with the ‘real time’ analysis of the trade flow data.

The Role

-          Monitor and implement credit risk controls based on trade flow data from front office

-          Help to train junior analysts within the team

-          Provide head of Front Office trading Head of Control with reports on the efficiency and performance of the team

-          Ensure the continued development and implementation of the credit control framework

Ideal Candidate

• (Technical) university degree (Masters level) in mathematics, computer science, business or economics or similar education

• 3 years of relevant work experience in the credit or financing environment

• Experience with data analysis across multiple source systems across

• Knowledge of the Swiss CAO and Basel II / III

• Knowledge of a programming language for database queries and OLAP-based

• Very good written and oral expression in German

• Excellent analytical and conceptual skills

• Initiative, independent, goal-oriented, assertive, team oriented

This role is an opportunity to gain unrivalled experience in one of Switzerland’s leading financial institutions, and has a direct reporting line to the Head of Control at the firm as well as a dotted line to the CRO, allowing ample senior management facing.


Key Words: Credit Risk, Basel II, Basel III, Credit Risk Controller, Controlling, Monitoring, Risk