Risk Management Specialist (m/f/d)
Eidgenössische Finanzmarktaufsicht (FINMA)
Bern
Key information
- Publication date:12 December 2025
- Workload:100%
- Contract type:Permanent position
- Place of work:Bern
Job summary
Join FINMA as a key player in risk management, shaping strategies! Enjoy a dynamic work environment with meaningful benefits.
Tasks
- Develop and maintain the Risk Policy and risk appetite for FINMA.
- Conduct comprehensive risk assessments and collaborate on mitigation.
- Create and maintain transparent risk monitoring and reporting frameworks.
Skills
- University degree with business background and 7 years in risk management.
- Strong communication skills at management level.
- Proactive, team-oriented, and decision-making capabilities.
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Are you passionate about identifying, analyzing, and proactively managing risks? Would you like to take on a key role in FINMA's risk management and have a direct impact on strategic decisions? Then apply for this vacancy!
1. Strategic Risk Management & Governance
- You develop and maintain the Risk Policy, risk taxonomy, and risk appetite of FINMA.
- You establish and continuously develop risk governance while promoting a strong risk culture.
- You prepare the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) report for management and relevant stakeholders.
2. Risk Analysis & Reporting
- You conduct comprehensive risk assessments at various organizational and technical levels and develop appropriate measures with risk owners to minimize risks.
- You create and maintain suitable monitoring and reporting frameworks to transparently visualize corporate risks.
- You have a university or university of applied sciences degree with a business background or equivalent education and training.
- You bring at least 7 years of experience in ERM, risk governance, risk policy, risk appetite, risk taxonomy, ideally in the banking sector.
- You have excellent communication skills at the management level, including the ability to convey complex information clearly and concisely.
- You are pragmatic and can make, represent, and implement fact-based decisions.
- You are proactive, a team player, communicative, and decisive.
- You have very good German skills (C2) and good French skills.
Fabio Pelliccia 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 700 competent and motivated employees are committed to this every day.
You can expect a diverse and exciting role as a Risk Management Specialist focusing on FINMA's own risks. In this exciting position, you report directly to the CRO.