Head of Financial Risk – Private Banking Location: Geneva, SwitzerlandAbout the Role - A leading international private banking group is seeking a Head of Financial Risk to strengthen its risk function in Geneva. This is a key leadership role, responsible for overseeing the bank’s financial risk management framework, leading risk professionals, and ensuring robust regulatory alignment with FINMA and European standards.The position will play a pivotal role in shaping the financial risk setup, building on existing resources in credit, market, and liquidity risk, while enhancing transversal oversight across all financial risk disciplines.Key ResponsibilitiesLead and develop the financial risk function, ensuring strong coverage across credit, market, and liquidity risk.Design and implement the bank’s financial risk framework, embedding best practice across 1st and 2nd line of defence.Manage regulatory engagement with FINMA, ECB, and other regulators, ensuring compliance with Swiss and European requirements.Drive strategic risk projects in parallel with day-to-day oversight.Provide senior risk monitoring, reporting, and escalation to senior management.Collaborate with executives and other branches internationally, ensuring consistency of risk practices across jurisdictions.Mentor and support colleagues to build technical depth and leadership capability.Candidate Profile8–10+ years of financial risk experience, with significant exposure to financial risk in private banking.Proven leadership and people management skills.Expertise across credit, market, and liquidity risk, with ability to apply a transversal risk vision.Experience in Swiss and European regulatory environments (FINMA essential, ECB/European exposure valued).Demonstrated ability to run multiple risk projects in parallel.Strong stakeholder management skills, able to interact confidently with regulators and senior executives.Languages: English mandatory; Spanish or French an asset.
Anis Soomaroo