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Banking Expert in Banking Operations

Georg-Schumann-Straße 294, 04159 Leipzig, Germany | Full-time

A bit about the role

Your team

As a banking expert you will be part of Avaloq’s global banking operations division (GBO). With our services we are the back office for more than 30 banks globally and ensure their processes run smoothly, compliantly, and efficiently.

Within GBO, our client onboarding team made up of different domain experts makes sure to support prospects and new clients on their journey to become a Banking Operations customer. This means to help them understand our offering, explain our standard processes, identify deviations, and help them to adopt our standard for maximum efficiency all through an onboarding project.

Your mission

  • Active contribution to the success of Banking Operations projects, initiatives, or requests in the case of:
    • Sales cases (e.g., Sales support)
    • Banking Operations Implementation projects (e.g., project delivery)
    • Strategic Banking Operations initiatives
    • Support of daily operations
  • Deliver best in class project support as a Banking Specialist representing Banking Operations from the Sales phase to post-implementation
  • Spearhead Banking Operations project related tasks and achieve defined objectives and deliverables
  • Provide recommendations to external stakeholders (in & outside of Avaloq) with their extensive professional experience and specialized market knowledge
  • Act as the intermediary between Avaloq Banking Operations and other stakeholders within the organization. Harmonize task management between teams, departments, and regions
  • Ensure a quality driven, smooth transition from project into business as usual
  • Provide ad hoc support to other Banking Operations teams
  • Uphold and enforce defined Global Implementation Methodology and processes whilst continuously seeking to improve processes, tools, and activities. Challenge the status quo
  • A strong desire to improve one’s own business knowledge

A bit about you

What you need

  • Excellent knowledge of market standard Banking Operations services (i.e., Masterdata Management, Payments, Securities, Reconciliation, Asset Servicing)
  • Excellent knowledge on project management
  • Banking education, Bachelor's degree or equivalent with good knowledge of financial instruments and regulatory requirements
  • 5+ years’ work experience in the banking industry
  • Strong sense of responsibility and solutions oriented with high level of integrity and reliability
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Good command of written and spoken English and German (any other language is a plus)
  • Good understanding of Microsoft Office Suite and willingness to learn
  • Being adaptable
  • Flexibility in case of occasional and time-limited support across locations aiming to cover specific tasks (e.g., post go-live stabilization)

Additional information

We realize that managing work life balance is a challenge we all face in our daily lives and in order to support with this we are pleased to offer hybrid and flexible working for most of our Avaloqers to maintain work life balance and still continue our fantastic Avaloq culture in our global offices.
In Avaloq we are proud to embrace diversity and understand the success of our business is built on the power of different opinions, we are whole heartedly committed to fostering an equal opportunity environment and inclusive culture where you can be your true authentic self.
We hire, compensate and promote regardless of origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other fantastic traits that make us all unique, we have done our best to write this advert in an inclusive and neutral way.
Please be aware that we will not accept speculative CV submissions for any of our roles from recruitment agencies, and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations.

Benefits

Annual bonus

At Avaloq we work hard to remain an industry leading provider and we love to reward our colleagues with a share of that success with an annual bonus, you will even remain eligible for annual bonus while you do the hardest job of your life – taking care of your children during parental leave.

Flexible working

We understand that fitting your life around your job can be challenging which is why in most roles we offer flexible working to allow you to thrive both in and out of work.

Instant recognition

We love to see people thriving in their roles and we have an instant recognition scheme at Avaloq to help managers reward the great work our colleagues deliver with a gift to say thanks.

Access to Udemy for professional and personal learning

We think it is important to learn and grow professionally, but if you are someone who likes to learn outside of work we give you access to online learning for both professional and personal learning, with over 210,000 courses to choose from.

A bit about us

Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 10 countries, and more than 160 clients in 35 countries. We are an industry-leading provider of wealth management technology and services for financial institutions around the world, including private banks and wealth managers, investment managers, as well as retail and neo banks. Our research led approach and continual innovation is powered by the passion and creativity of our colleagues.
We are always looking for talented people to join us on our mission to orchestrate the financial ecosystem and democratize access to wealth management. Avaloq offers the opportunity to work closely with some of the world’s leading financial institutions as we jointly develop and shape careers. Championing a collaborative, supportive and flexible work environment empowers our colleagues to reach their full potential.

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