On behalf of a prestigious foreign private bank based in Geneva we are looking to hire a

STRUCTURED PRODUCT DEVELOPER

Your responsibilities (overview):

Product Design

• Ensure that structured products are well-designed, congruent with Wealth Research views, and capable of delivering investment and commercial performance
• Manage / coordinate product design, ensuring collaboration between product, research and distribution
• Probe pricing; identify and articulate technical context for the product ideas

Product Build and Delivery

• Review the panel of external suppliers, tracking service levels and price performance
• Ensure adherence to governance for panel membership
• Manage competitive tenders, negotiating terms with counterparties and ensuring full implementation of the Open Architecture policy

Risk Management

• Review and improve product processes, ensuring controls are adequate and business is scalable
• Identify and respond to risk events, reviewing causes and proposing changes to controls where appropriate
• Engage with relevant infrastructure functions (operations, finance, dealing desks, compliance, legal) and ensure adequate support and define and produce management information covering AUM, product performance, counterparty exposure

Platform Development and Management

• Maintain project pipeline, ensuring prioritisation and clear identification of costs and benefits
• Structure and manage projects within agreed cost, risk and time constraints
• Ensure successful implementation with channel, and track benefits

Your profile:

• Experience of derivative based structured products, preferably across asset classes. Understanding of private client distribution
• Experience of working in a matrix environment, coordinating and influencing various teams
• Educated to degree standard. Additional finance qualification (CFA, MBA, MiF) highly desirable
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English are a critical requirement of the position. Second language (French, Spanish) a distinct advantage
• Motivate, action oriented, with a focus on continuous improvement in all areas of your work
• An entrepreneurial approach and work with integrity