Graduate - Financial Services Risk Consulting

Kick-start your career at KPMG and contribute to the stability of the Swiss financial sector. You can expect an experienced and diverse team of risk, finance and treasury experts as well as exciting and challenging tasks in a dynamic and international environment.

Zurich
By agreement
80 % - 100 %

Your contribution to KPMG

  • Advise our clients in the areas of risk and finance transformation
  • Stay on top of evolving regulatory requirements (e.g. FINMA, EBA, PRA) as well as industry best practice developments regarding both financial risk and non-financial risk to devise value-generating solutions for our clients
  • Provide in-house support to our Financial Services Audit professionals
  • Become familiar with banks' internal processes and controls frameworks for Risk and Finance functions
  • Gain in-depth knowledge of new types of risk, explore their potential impact on our clients (e.g. climate risks), and devise strategies to mitigate them
  • Develop and use tools for analyzing, processing, modeling and interpreting data to provide value-added insights for our clients

This is what makes you successful

  • Master or PhD in banking & finance, economics, business, computer science or a related field
  • Interest in financial market topics and ability to familiarize yourself with them quickly
  • Analytical mindset, willingness to learn and perform, team and service orientation, strong communication skills, and independent working style
  • Strong coding skills in a language relevant for modelling and data analysis (e.g. Python, R, SQL)
  • The capacity to interpret and analyze large datasets in order to identify trends and generate insights
  • Initial work experience in the financial services environment is an advantage
  • Fluency (written and oral) in both German and English are a must

Meet the team: Financial Services Risk Consulting

Your benefits

We offer a range of generous benefits designed to help you thrive with us and benefit for life. Discover them below.

  • Empowered to lead

    Responsibility from day one. That’s how we empower tomorrow’s business leaders at KPMG. You value your independence – and so do we. We cultivate an environment where you can unfold your potential.

    Empowered to lead
  • Your personal skillset

    From digital learning to external programs, personal development comes in many shapes and forms at KPMG. Share our passion for learning and cultivate future and digital skills that will last a lifetime. Even better: benefit from our contribution to the cost of qualifying in your field.

    Your personal skillset
  • Inspired to innovate

    As part of KPMG, you join other highly qualified and motivated professionals in an inspiring entrepreneurial environment. A clear mindset and strong opinions are not only encouraged at KPMG, but expected. When it comes to ideas, quality beats hierarchy.

    Inspired to innovate
  • New ventures

    KPMG thrives – and depends – on agility and change. Help shape the next generation of business with your open mindset and entrepreneurial spirit. We constantly create room for your ideas to unfold.

    New ventures

Are you interested?

KPMG as an employer

You will be become an integral part of an experienced team of financial services professionals who have work with numerous clients on a wide range of topics. Clients include international as well as regionally operating universal banks, investment banks and private banks. The project portfolio is broad and rife with challenging development opportunities in an international environment. For optimal success, we support you on the job as well as with targeted training programs.

KPMG is known for providing clear and consistent solutions in the areas of auditing and advisory services. The broad palette of services across many subject matters and industries allows the provision of multidisciplinary services from a single source for our clients on the one hand and diverse careers and development options for our employees on the other hand. Our dealings are fair and frank and we strive to always look at the results of our work through the eyes of our clients. At KPMG, we are aware that if we add value for our clients, we also do the same for ourselves.

Do you have any questions?

Valeria Bortignon

Campus Recruiting Specialist

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