Compliance - Financial Crime Compliance - Analyst - Geneva

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Job Description

Our division prevents, detects and mitigates compliance, regulatory and reputational risk across the firm and helps to strengthen the firm’s culture of compliance. Compliance accomplishes these through the firm’s enterprise-wide compliance risk management program. As an independent control function and part of the firm’s second line of defense, Compliance assesses the firm’s compliance, regulatory and reputational risk; monitors for compliance with new or amended laws, rules and regulations; designs and implements controls, policies, procedures and training; conducts independent testing; investigates, surveils and monitors for compliance risks and breaches; and leads the firm’s responses to regulatory examinations, audits and inquiries. You’ll be part of a team with members from a wide range of academic and professional backgrounds, such as law, accounting, sales, and trading. We look for those who possess sound judgment, curiosity, and are able to adapt to a changing regulatory landscape.

The Financial Crime Compliance Group is seeking to offer an analyst the opportunity to work on a variety of different projects and tasks. In this role, the analyst/associate will gain an overall understanding of financial crime compliance while developing functional skills relating to surveillance reviews and compliance research. The analyst/associate will work closely with divisional compliance, legal, operations, technology and business personnel, and would be expected to quickly gain an understanding of the firm’s businesses and the rules and regulations under which the firm operates. The ideal candidate would have strong analytical skills, the ability to adapt quickly to new environments and the ability to collaborate with others. The position would be in the Zurich or Geneva offices.

Responsibilities

• Conduct enhanced due diligence reviews of high risk clients and prospective clients to identify potential legal, regulatory or reputational risk. Due diligence can include independent media and public records research, the use of various vendor due diligence tools and public databases and the review of due diligence reports.
• Review, investigate and resolve transaction surveillance, sanctions screening and negative media surveillance alerts.
• Perform in-depth investigations of potentially suspicious activity. The investigative process can include reviewing account activity, trade and payment records, public records, including regulatory filings and financial reports, and coordinating with compliance and business representatives to fully understand and document unusual and potentially suspicious activity.
• Complete comprehensive investigative summaries and file suspicious activity reports.
• Advise the business, compliance and operations personnel regarding the application of AML policies, procedures and regulations.
  

Qualifications

• Maintain strong analytical and risk assessment skills
• Ability to work independently but post information appropriately to the team
• Ability to prioritize work flows and ensure deadlines are met
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Produce well-organized and detail oriented work
• Prior AML or Compliance experience or foreign language capabilities would be ideal
• Prior brokerage experience with knowledge of the securities industry and products is favourable
  

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