Regional Head Export and Trade Finance

Rieter is the world’s leading supplier of systems for manufacturing yarn from staple fibers in spinning mills. Based in Winterthur (Switzerland), the company develops and manufactures machinery, systems and components used to convert natural and man-made fibers and their blends into yarns in the most cost-efficient manner. Cutting-edge spinning technology from Rieter contributes to sustainability in the textile value chain by minimizing the use of resources.

Rieter has been in business for 230 years, has 18 production locations in ten countries and employs a global workforce of around 4 560, about 15% of whom are based in Switzerland.

Committed and satisfied employees are of particular importance to our company's success. For this reason, we are looking for an active personality as

• 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 counter parties
• 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

• 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

Unfortunately, we are currently experiencing a problem with the apply button. Please send your application to Write an email
Rahel Känzig
Write an email
Rieter AG
Klosterstrasse 20
8406 Winterthur

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.

Unfortunately, we are currently experiencing a problem with the apply button. Please send your application to Write an email