You manage sanctions compliance tasks, including investigations, evaluations, and advisory roles, while ensuring effective communication and training on compliance measures throughout the organization.
Anforderungen
- •3-6 years experience in banking compliance
- •University degree in Law or Economics
- •General understanding of sanctions frameworks
- •Independent working approach
- •Fast learner in dynamic regulatory environment
- •Reliability and attention to detail
- •Team player with good communication skills
- •Resident in Switzerland or willing to relocate
Deine Aufgaben
- •Conduct sanctions compliance investigations and follow-ups.
- •Evaluate investment securities and funds for sanctions links.
- •Advise on onboarding acceptance for prospective clients.
- •Assess implementation of blocking and restrictive controls.
- •Provide daily advice on sanctions compliance to management.
- •Assist with requests from sanctions regulatory authorities.
- •Support handling of sanction questionnaires from counterparties.
- •Identify new countries or parties under sanctions.
- •Maintain the Sanctions Directive and update guidelines.
- •Develop and provide sanctions compliance training.
- •Track sensitive accounts within the sanctions perimeter.
- •Assist Operations with transactions under close monitoring.
- •Participate in reviewing escalations from payment sanctions screening.
Original Beschreibung
# Sanctions Compliance Officer
**Geneva** | **Full time**
**YOUR MISSION :**
* Performance and follow-up of dedicated sanctions compliance investigations, reviews and risk assessments;
* Evaluation of investments securities, funds or other, presenting direct or indirect links with countries under sanction;
* Advising the business on onboarding acceptance for prospective clients, establishment of the conditions and restrictions to be applied and related procedures. Analysis to be provided to COR Team/ CLM team for new onboarding cases with a sanctions exposure – inclusion of Sanctions assessment in the Due Dilligence Committee’s submissions;
* Assess the implementation of blocking and restrictive controls on client accounts, assets, and transactions as well as on securities and any further risk mitigation measure;
* Daily and ongoing advice and support the Bank’s management and staff with respect to sanctions compliance;
* Assisting in the requests and reporting from /of sanctions regulatory competent authorities (OFAC, OFSI, SECO) on sanctions issues;
* Support in the handling of sanction questionnaires received by our counterparties;
* Identify possible new countries/parties/securities under sanctions based on a dedicated regulatory watch;
* Maintain the Sanctions Directive and the related Group Guidelines and the communication of any changes thereto;
* Assisting in the development and provision of sanctions compliance training, awareness raising and other communications, as appropriate;
* Tracking of highly sensitive accounts in the sanction perimeter, including a risk based analysis and remediation measures implemented;
* Assistance to be provided to our Operations team for situations related to inflows / outflows / internal transactions / securities transactions for accounts subject to a close-monitoring in the sanctions perimeter;
* Participation in the review of escalations of from the ex-ante payment sanctions screening messages filtering (Swift, SIC, SEPA, etc.) and handling and resolution of potential sanctions hits generated.
**YOUR PROFILE:**
* 3-6 years of experience in the banking sector within a Compliance, Sanctions, Financial Crime, Legal, Audit or similar function;
* A university degree in Law/Economics or comparable studies or equivalent in working experience in the financial industry sector;
* General understanding of Swiss, EU, US, UN and UK sanctions framework;
* Independent working approach, combined with the ability to identify relevant compliance considerations in any given situation;
* Fast learner to be able to work in a dynamic regulatory environment;
* A university degree in Law/Economics or comparable studies or equivalent in working experience in the financial industry sector;
* Reliability and ability to grasp relevant issues quickly, and meticulous attention to detail;
* Team player with good communication skills with a high standard of written and spoken English;
* Resident in Switzerland or willing to relocate to Switzerland.
**Our Maison’s DNA** is defined by five core values. **Excellence** drives us to be the best at what we do, while **Innovation** fuels our progress. **Respect** underpins every interaction, and **Integrity** shapes our actions. Together, we are **One Team**, united in serving our clients with unwavering dedication.
As a responsible and supportive employer, we promote a diverse and inclusive work environment for our employees and candidates. **Diversity, Equity and Inclusion** are woven into the fabric of our Maison’s DNA, and we strive to ensure that our employees can fulfill both their personal and professional aspirations by encouraging internal mobility and individual upskilling programs. We firmly believe that building Diverse Teams contributes to our successes and to deliver on this, we actively embed Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in our business strategy.
**It is an exciting time to join our Teams.**