Job Description

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.



Your team

Language Services is Avaloq\'s in-house localization, translation and language review provider and is responsible for terminology management at Avaloq. We are seeking an English-language translator, reviewer/editor and terminologist who will review and translate a wide range of text types and manage the corporate glossary of the Avaloq group. You will be heavily involved in software localization projects, both as a reviewer of the source text and as a localization project manager. In this position, you will also be the main point of contact between our internal clients and our external language services providers.

Your mission

• Review texts in terms of grammar and spelling, language and style, consistency and coherence, and corporate terminology
• Occasionally translate documents, ensuring accurate, consistent and coherent target texts that are delivered on time
• Work as part of a product team to localize software user interfaces
• Maintain and update the corporate glossary and support the team with terminology coordination
• Manage translation/review requests, including outsourcing to external language services providers

Qualifications

What you need

• Degree in Translation (or equivalent qualification)
• Excellent knowledge of English (native language)
• Good knowledge of German - an additional language is a plus (French, Italian, Japanese, Chinese)
• Knowledge of CAT and terminology management tools (memoQ/qTerm, SDL Trados)
• Organized, methodical and reliable person with a fantastic attention to detail
• Healthy curiosity in language technology, esp. CAT, localization and authoring tools

You will get extra points for the following

• Banking and/or IT knowledge
• Experience with localization software (Phrase) and authoring tool (Acrolinx)
• Familiarity with machine translation and post-editing
• Knowledge of copy writing

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.

Please be aware that we will not accept speculative CV submissions for any of our roles from recruitment agencies, and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations.

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