Head Back

Company Description

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.

**Job Description**:
We have an exciting opportunity for you to join Avaloq as the head of Back & Middle Office. Acting as a general manager for the service development organization in the area of Back & Middle Office, you are responsible for delivering end-to-end services to banks and financial institutions that fulfill their expectations in terms of quality and time-to-market. You will be part of a talented and highly-motivated group who is ready to make a serious impact for our clients and to the industry using your experience, optimism, and energy to define, design to build our next generation of products and services.

If you are looking for a challenging position and have a significant impact in the banking landscape this is the job is for you

**Your key tasks**

**Delivery**
- Define, drive and enable key objectives
- Optimize the organization and implement measures for increased productivity, quality and reliability
- Advise line managers, product managers and software architects on key decisions
- Support the client management and sales team by providing relevant artefacts (presentations, factsheets etc.) or by direct involvement in pitches and workshops
- Shape and manage budget

**People management & Leadership**:

- Inspire with your hands-on and servant leadership attitude
- Foster and support professional growth of team members
- Promote a can-do and collaboration culture
- Communicate proactively within your organisation and Avaloq as well as with clients and partners
- Resolve both external and internal conflicts with empathy, positivity, and flexibility
- Take accountability as single point of contact and enable the organization to scale through delegation
- Set priorities and organize your division

**Qualifications**:

- You have a strong demonstrable proven track record of managing complex software product development organizations for wealth management, financial services, or digital banking platforms
- You have a technical background allowing you to challenge and advise the team on key topics and decisions
- You are a skilled negotiator and discussion partner, capable of engaging with senior management, including C-suite executives using your strong technical and business acumen
- You are an experienced leader that exhibits gravitas, leadership and problem solving skills with a "get things done" attitude and object oriented approach
- You will be articulate and confident in English with the ability to confidently deliver complex and challenging content and messaging

**It would be a real bonus if you have**
- Professional proficiency in German
- Professional experience with ACP

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.

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