Rieter AG
Regional Head Export and Trade Finance
Rieter is the world’s leading system supplier for processing natural and man-made fibers into short-staple and long-staple yarn, as well as for the production of filament yarns, man-made fibers and nonwovens. With its comprehensive technology portfolio, Rieter covers the entire textile value chain – from fiber to yarn, and from polymer melt to texturized filament, synthetic staple fibers and nonwoven. Headquartered in Winterthur, Switzerland, the company designs and engineers complex spinning plants, machines, systems, and components that enable an efficient and economical production. Rieter’s leading technologies ensure minimal resource consumption, making a significant contribution to sustainability across the global textile value chain. Rieter has a history spanning more than 230 years, operates 17 production sites in nine countries, and employs around 4 220 people worldwide, approximately 15.4% of them in Switzerland. Rieter is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange under the ticker symbol RIEN.
Committed and satisfied employees are of particular importance to our company's success. For this reason, we are looking for an active personality as
Regional Head Export and Trade Finance
Your Main Tasks and Responsibilities
- Lead regional export and trade finance ROW team
- Ensure export compliance and trade finance risk management for Order to Payment Cycle in line with governing laws and internal regulations
- Ensure financing cost control and optimized working capital management for export sales contracts
- Support business development and sales process with customer financing solutions
- External stakeholder management with banks, insurers, agents, and customers
- Ensure appropriate balance sheet credit exposure for Rieter’s third counterparties
- Support and train team members in the field of export compliance, development of structured finance solutions, compliant process management, and credit management
- Support transition and migration from paper-based trade finance services processing to digitized cross functional processes
Your Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or above, trade finance and export management background with at least 10 years of experience
- Experience in structured and ECA-covered financing, incl. credit risk assessment across corporate, country, KYC, and export compliance
- Experience in digitization and process optimization
- Six Sigma / Lean / Project Management / Change Management
- Strong communication skills in English and German, Spanish and/or Russian are an advantage; additional languages are a plus
- High sense of integrity
- Systematic work approach
- Team player, goal-oriented, fast learner, assertive and persuasive
- an international working environment with long tradition
- versatile activity in a future-oriented environment with a lot of self-responsibility
- good development opportunities and fair employment conditions
- a motivated team with mutual respect and good cooperation
Rahel Känzig
Rieter AG
Klosterstrasse 20
8406 Winterthur
+41 522 087351
www.rieter.com
Are you interested? If you recognize yourself in this profile and you would like to be part of a successful team, we look forward to meeting you soon. Please send us your complete application documents online.