English linguistics specialist - #2078355

Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 12 countries, and more than 170 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.

This is an exciting opportunity for an English Linguistic Specialist to join our Edinburgh office as part of Avaloq's Language Services team. Language Services is Avaloq’s in-house translation and language review provider and is responsible for terminology management.



This role would be ideal for an English-language translator, reviewer or editor and terminologist who will review and translate a wide range of text types and manage the corporate glossary of the Avaloq group. In this position, you will also be the main point of contact between our internal clients and our external language services providers. This role would suit a trained translator who has diversified their skillset to flexibly adapt to the ongoing changes in our sector.



Your key tasks will be to:

• Review various text types to ensure correct grammar and spelling, language and style, consistency and coherence, and corporate terminology
• Translate documents into English, ensuring accurate, consistent and coherent target texts that are delivered on time
• Maintain and update the corporate glossary
• Manage translation/review requests, including outsourcing to external language services providers
  
  

• English as a native language
• Degree in Translation or equivalent qualification
• Proven track record of translating or editing banking and/or financial content
• Very good knowledge of at least one additional language (minimum B2/C1 level in German, French, Italian, Japanese and/or Arabic)
• Knowledge of CAT and terminology management tools (memoQ/qTerm, SDL Trados)
• Organized, methodical and reliable person with excellent attention to detail

It would be a real bonus if you have:

• Experience working in the Banking sector
• Knowledge of IT and/or software
• Familiarity with AI, machine translation and post-editing
  
  

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.