Senior Compliance officer
- Office
- Geneva
- Start Date
- 06.04.2025
- Type of contract
- Permanent
Description
Compliance Department
Mission
Mission & Main duties Ensuring that new and/or existing clients to the bank, for the Emerging Markets/ Eastern Europe are compliant with laws, regulations such as AML, CDB, FATCA, CRS, international sanctions and internal guidelines and standards. Key
Main responsibilities
Ensuring that new and/or existing clients to the bank, for the Emerging Markets/ Eastern Europe are compliant with laws, regulations such as AML, CDB, FATCA, CRS, international sanctions and internal guidelines and standards.
- Review new and existing customers from an AML standpoint, prepare client analysis summary sheets for presentation to the Bank’s account opening committees
- Raise awareness of Compliance responsibilities within the First Line of Defense
- Assure that local and Swiss laws, regulations, and internal guidelines are respected in the process of the account opening and modifications
- Corroborate KYC information provided by the business and perform checks via external sources where appropriate;
- Provide guidance and support and relevant information to RMs
- Follow-up on decisions taken by the Bank’s AML Committees
- Draft Suspicious Activity Reports
- Work collaboratively with other Compliance teams within and outside Switzerland;
- Work collaboratively with other Compliance teams such as Subject Matter Experts for tax, cross-border, etc
- Monitor changes to business practices and products to ensure that AML controls and procedures are adequate to cover them
- Assist with departmental projects and initiatives as required
- May be involved in different Compliance Projects
Key responsibilities Services:
Train employees (team and front) on new Compliance rules.
Main Committees:
Account Opening Committee
Sanctions Committee
AML Committee
Education
- Education: Bachelor Degree
Experience
- Years of experience: 3-7 : intermediate
- Experience in private banking: Mandatory
Language
- French: Fluent
- English: Fluent
- Other: Advanced (Russian)
OTHER
- Swiss resident: Mandatory