Bank J. Safra Sarasin Ltd is a leading sustainable private bank, offering all the advantages of the Swiss banking environment together with dynamic and personalised advisory services focusing on opportunities in international financial markets. The Bank provides a high level of services and expertise when acting as investment advisor and asset manager for private and institutional clients. Financial strength, excellent client services and outstanding quality are therefore key elements of its corporate philosophy.J. Safra Sarasin’s most valuable capital is its employees. They are essential to the success of the organisation, now and in the future. Their technical expertise, professional qualifications and social skills are highly valued by the Group’s clients, management and business partners. The success of J. Safra Sarasin depends on the enthusiasm and commitment of every one of its employees worldwide.DivisionTrading, Treasury & Asset ManagementFunction/PositionRisk & Performance SpecialistLocationBaselFunction/Position objectivesAnalytics & Business Solutions is a central team within the Asset Management organization reporting directly to the Head of Asset Management. The department is structured into the sub teams "Risk & Performance Monitoring" and "Risk and Performance Analytics" whose responsibilities include the identification, quantification, analysis and reporting of performance and risk analytics for funds, mandates, certificates and research recommendations. To deliver high quality analytics and to foster in-depth analysis, we have built up and constantly improve our expertise not only in risk and performance, but also in related topics like benchmarks and regulation, systems and models.With a focus on risk and performance, the position offers the unique possibility to get a holistic view of our Asset Management strategies, products, processes and tools, to improve one’s finance, risk & performance and programming skills. The successful candidate will be involved in the process of analysis and reporting, support the team in improving the current analytical setup as well as participate in the team’s projects.To learn more about our Asset management, visit am-ch.jsafrasarasin.comResponsibilities
Calculate, analyze and report risk and performance for management and to dedicated clients
Work with and improve the setup of our tool landscape incl. Bloomberg PORT, FactSet, several proprietary tools
Refine methodologies to constantly expand our analysis and reporting capabilites
Work closely with other team members and other business units/departments
Profiles
University Master degree. Strong finance skills. CFA, FRM or similar a plus
Know how in risk & performance calculation, motivation to constantly increase one's knowledge
Fluency in English. Good German skills a strong plus
Self-motivated, hard working team-minded and goal oriented. Flexible to cope in a dynamic environment
Know how of MS Office (possibly VBA), SQL and Python (or similiar) a strong plus. Motivation to improve on programatic data analysis skills
Bloomberg (PORT+), EIKON, QA Direct, FactSet (PA), Avaloq and/or Morningstar experience a strong plus
GIPS know how a plus. Experience with investment restriction set up and controlling a plus
