Head of Credit Structuring - CH Domestic Market
This position will be based in Zurich.
This position requires a Swiss residency.
YOUR TEAM
Our Swiss on‑shore teams are set to become pivotal drivers of our next‑generation growth. By 2030 we aim to expand loan outstanding in Switzerland by 45 %. To deliver this, we’re focusing on three transformation pillars:
- Product - design new solutions and optimise the existing portfolio.
- People - up-skill talent, attract top professionals and develop future leaders.
- Tools - leverage digital platforms, data analytics and workflow automation.
Success hinges on the full commitment of our team and key stakeholders. We are currently searching for a Head of Structuring – Swiss On‑shore Market to lead this journey.
YOUR WORK DAY
As a core member of the Expertise Financing Solutions team you will set the standard for excellence by leading the design, structuring and execution of Swiss‑specific financing products - including Lombard facilities, secured mortgages and unsecured loans - both for transactions already booked and for those pending at the Swiss booking centre.
Management and Structuring
A critical first mandate will be:
- As a member of the Swiss Expertise Financing Solutions team, you will lead by example, overseeing the structuring and coordination of Swiss‑specific financing solutions —including Lombard, secured mortgage, and unsecured facilities — both those already booked and those pending booking at the Swiss booking centre.
- Assist the team on their files, which includes:
- Efficient Time-to-Market: create a culture of high customer service and make sure the team is reactive/owner to new opportunities raised by the Front-Office teams
- Help the creation of "Deal Team" when necessary and favor coordination with other internal departments (Wealth Planning, Legal, CIB or other Métier of BNPP Group etc…)
- Properly understand the Bank’s Risk appetite and help seek a consensus with Risk teams
- Assess the need to inform or seek the necessary internal support when adequate (Head of Financing Solutions / CEO WM Switzerland / Head Office Financing Solutions)
- Solution oriented mind-set AND capacity to dismiss (with pedagogy) inappropriate deals
- Participate to the negotiation of terms & conditions with Relationship Managers and Credit Structurers and final Private Clients when needed to start/monitor discussions efficiently.
- Act as a gatekeeper to ensure high quality of credit papers / Executive Summary / support memos drafted by the team
- Promote internal marketing on key / transforming deals booked by the team
As part of the Financing Solutions Hub, you will be part of our Structuring Competence Center, supporting Financing Solutions teams on the complex financings needs (notably but not only Swiss mortgages and Private Equity financing) for our largest clients. In that role, you will also be working closely with Wealth Management Bankers in Switzerland and across the various other GAIM booking centres.
Commercial Actions and Animations
- Promote credit and position the team close to the Front office teams and make sure they participate in market commercial meetings / Book reviews
- Encourage and propose regular credit trainings to FO teams and participation as expert to various FO events
Project Management
- Take the lead on various projects assigned to the team, notably the Swiss basics files mortgage project
- Contribute to the enlargement of BNPP Financing Solutions offer
- Accompanying the deployment and marketing of the funds financing credit offering for which you will be the central contact
- Leading a community of structuring officers for the large WM clients, in Switzerland (where two Credit Structurers will report hierarchically to you),
- Finally, you will contribute to the portfolio management and the preparation of the strategy on the various structured finance products, particularly during annual management presentations.
Based in Zurich and travelling regularly to other locations, you will operate in a completely revamped work environment, in full flex office with teleworking.
YOUR PROFILE & SKILLS
Are you our next Senior Credit Structurer F/H?
- Yes, if you are a credit structuring professional with 15 to 20 years of transactional background in specialized financing including private equity / funds financing and if you are used to working in an international environment.
- You are known for your strong technical skills without being locked into details.
- You have good client-facing and negotiating skills.
- You are also a good communicator and can combine the group's strategic orientations with the local specificities of our local businesses.
- English and German speaking skills is imperative (mother tongue). Swiss German is a strong plus.
Don't hesitate and join us!
WHY JOIN US?
BNP Paribas in Switzerland is a bank of reference active in Geneva, Zurich and Lugano. It is a major European partner for companies, as well as institutional and private clients. Joining BNP Paribas will give you the opportunity to take part in an authentic company project, in which innovation and career management act as driving forces to help talents emerge, express themselves fully and open up to career opportunities on an international level, by integrating a group that stands as a leader within the Eurozone. Please visit us at BNP Paribas Suisse.
In a changing world, diversity, equity and inclusion are key values for the well-being and the good performance of teams. At BNP Paribas, we wish to welcome and retain all talents, without any distinction: together we will build the finance of tomorrow, innovative, responsible and sustainable.
Finally, we insist on the particular importance of having our employees act daily in a spirit of ethical and professional responsibility.
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