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Careers in the CFO Division
Be a Part of What Makes Credit Suisse Work
As part of Shared Services, the CFO division plays an active role in supporting the bank’s aspiration of becoming the world’s most admired bank. That's why we have set ourselves the highest goal: to be recognized as the leading CFO division in the financial services industry.
Our top priority is to deliver superior quality to our internal and external clients in a manner that exemplifies the highest standards of control, compliance, ethics and professionalism at all times. With a clear understanding of our client needs and expectations, we can offer smart solutions in the most efficient and effective way.
Close collaboration, whether within our division or across the bank, is one of our cornerstones; everything we do enables us to leverage our individual and collective strengths and abilities for the benefit of driving the business forward. Our success depends upon our ability and aspiration to share knowledge and expertise, irrespective of reporting lines or professional backgrounds.
CFO Division's Mission
The CFO division’s vision and mission is to protect and enhance shareholder value by acting as the guardian of the financial franchise, delivering reliable and transparent financial data, and optimizing the use of resources.
The division supports the bank’s low-risk, capital-efficient strategy with comprehensive accounting, tax, treasury, controlling, new business, insurance, and investor relations support. It has accounting duties in both Product Control and Financial Accounting. Our product controllers ensure that trading inventories and related accounts are prepared accurately and on time in line with applicable accounting standards, including validation of our trading positions’ valuations. Financial Accounting maintains the bank’s accounting books and records in keeping with reporting and regulatory standards like US GAAP, Basel II, and Sarbanes-Oxley. Treasury aims to optimize our financial resources by maintaining appropriate liquidity and adequate funding while managing capital prudently. Investor Relations fosters ongoing relationships with equity and fixed-income investors and rating agencies. Influential in the overall governance process, our Tax professionals manage the organization’s financial and reputational tax risks as well as seeing that the bank fulfill its global tax compliance and reporting requirements accurately and on time.
Other areas of the division include management information, strategic business planning, budget control, cost allocation, management of new business initiatives.
Additionally the CFO division also includes a range of specialist departments, which support projects and provide the bank with an efficient infrastructure. Additionally they manage global initiatives such as Operational Excellence, and Centers of Excellence. Credit Suisse has five Centers of Excellence around the world in Raleigh, NC (USA), Wroclaw (Poland), Pune (India), Mumbai (India) and Singapore (Singapore). Corporate and Real Estate Services provides our facility management globally while developing and managing our electrical and mechanical infrastructure. Supply Management partners with the bank’s vendors and suppliers around the world to ensure the delivery of high-performance and quality goods and services at an optimal cost. Strategic Process Change executes the strategic design and implementation of any major changes to our processes and systems.