Head of Recovery and Resolution Division, Member of the Executive Board (m/f/d)

About the job

FINMA is committed to protecting creditors, investors, and insured persons as well as ensuring a healthy financial market. The goal is a preventive and risk-based supervision that is effective for the supervised institutions and strengthens their resilience. Supervision is risk-based and proportional, within the framework of integrated financial market supervision that takes into account all relevant developments in the financial center. The Recovery and Resolution division makes a decisive contribution to this goal. Together with the supervised institutions, resolution plans are developed and stabilization plans approved to ensure the long-term stability of the financial center. As a member of the Executive Board, you actively shape FINMA's long-term orientation and implement its overall strategy.

• Development and implementation of the resolution strategy for systemically important institutions – banks, insurers, and financial market infrastructures – as well as assessment of stabilization and emergency plans and the feasibility of restructuring and liquidation
• Support of policy and regulatory work in the area of systemic importance and Too-Big-To-Fail
• International coordination and cooperation in the area of resolution
• Recovery and resolution measures as well as protective and insolvency measures for license holders, especially banks, securities firms, insurance companies, financial market infrastructures, and FinTechs
• Conducting insolvency and restructuring proceedings for financial institutions
• Leadership of employees in the Recovery and Resolution division (directly and indirectly) to effectively achieve our mandate
• Member of FINMA's Executive Board

• Completed academic education in a relevant field, supplemented by additional training (e.g., LL.M, MBA, doctorate)
• Several years of solid professional experience in financial market supervision
• Many years of leadership experience in a larger organizational unit, ideally with experience in an executive management role
• Strong knowledge of regulatory requirements in banking and insurance as well as relevant laws and regulations
• Deep expertise in financial and risk analysis, including evaluation of business models, financial metrics, and risk management systems
• Strong leadership and communication skills, negotiation skills, combined with diplomatic demeanor and high credibility
• Strong willingness and ability to foster and live collaboration across different areas and disciplines
• Strategic and networked thinking with high decisiveness and implementation strength
• High sense of responsibility, initiative, and integrity, experience in change management
• German or French at a high level (C2) and good passive understanding of the other language, as well as very good English skills (C2)

Stefanie Brunner will be happy to provide information.

FINMA supervises the Swiss financial market. It protects the interests of investors, creditors, and insured persons and contributes with its supervision to the stability and competitiveness of financial market participants. More than 700 competent and motivated employees are committed to this every day.

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