Senior Compliance Officer

Pictet is an investment-led service company, offering wealth management, asset management and related services. We are a partnership of eight owner managers and our principles of succession and transmission of ownership have remained unchanged since founding in 1805.

Our purpose is to build responsible partnerships with our clients, communities, and the companies in which we invest, in order to safeguard and transmit wealth, of all kinds, in the service of the real economy.

With more than CHF 612 billion in assets under management or custody at 31 December 2022, Pictet is today one of the leading Europe-based independent wealth and asset managers.

The Group is headquartered in Geneva, where its activities began, and employs more than 5000 employees. With 30 offices, it is also present in Amsterdam, Basel, Barcelona, Brussels, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Lausanne, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan, Monaco, Montreal, Munich, Nassau, Osaka, Paris, Rome, Shanghai, Singapore, Stuttgart, Taipei, Tel-Aviv, Tokyo, Turin, Verona, Shanghai, New York and Zurich.

**Your team**:
The Pictet Group is one of the world’s leading independent wealth and asset managers. Founded in 1805 and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the Group is represented at 30 offices in financial centres worldwide, and currently employs over 5200 people. Pictet has been present since 1989 in Luxembourg, where it employs over 700 people.

FundPartner Solutions provides a full suite of fund administration and private label funds services. The global team of industry experts specialises in fund domiciliation, registration and governance, as well as risk compliance and investment management services.

Corporate Functions includes the Group’s non-banking activities and employs more than 600 people. These functions are carried out by specialists with expertise across all business units, and include Communications, Compliance, Finance, Human Resources, Information Security, Internal Audit, Legal, Organisation & Digital, Risk and Tax departments.

You will be part of the Compliance team in Luxembourg.

**Your role**:
The Compliance function’s duties include the following tasks:

- Assist in various tasks of Corporate Compliance and run controls of the CMP
- Proactively contributing to monitoring the company's procedures according to regulatory developments.
- Contributing to the production of all types of report relating to the requests of our internal and external clients.
- Participating to regulatory projects relating to Compliance, taking charge of coordination tasks if necessary.
- Being involved in presenting the team’s activities to in-house and external clients, including when regulatory changes occur.
- Providing advice and assisting staff on the regulatory implications of current and new regulations and changes to the business.
- Contributing to improving the organization of the department (deploying processes and/or tools for adequate follow-up of the work of the team and of projects).
- Supervising the AML/KYC control activities carried out by the Transfer Agent Department by reviewing investors' files, particularly those posing a high risk.
- Carrying out / supervising second-level controls specific to the function, covering both activities relating to the acceptance and monitoring of business relationships with investors (Transfer Agent Department) and those specific to the management company's clients (i.e. procedures for entering into relationships managed by other departments).

**Your profile**:

- University degree (BAC +5 minimum) in Economics or Finance.
- 3 to 7 years’ experience in the area of Compliance (Corporate and/or AML), internal / external audit experience
- At ease using computer systems and new technologies as well as an interest in these areas.
- Good knowledge of European and Luxembourg legislation (mandatory).
- Knowledge of the full remit of compliance competencies with a comprehensive understanding of the various roles in the investment fund industry, and more particularly of the operating mechanisms of a management company, but also of a custodian bank, transfer agent, fund administration and the related regulatory framework, will be considered as an asset.

Soft skills:

- Discretion, rigour, dependability and organisational skills
- Analytical skills (investigative mindset), sense of proportionality (risk-based approach) and sound critical thinking (professional judgement)
- Writing and communication skills, sense of diplomacy
- Team spirit (solidarity)
- Tech savvy profile

Languages:

- Written and spoken fluency in French and English.

**Note**:
We will not accept any CVs from agencies.

**Flexible and modern ways of working**

As a responsible and supportive employer, we promote the well-being of our employees through a set of flexible working arrangements, ranging from a work-from-home policy for eligible functions to opportunities for annualised part-time leave and extended parental leave.

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