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.

**Your role**:

- Ensure compliance of the AML Governance requirements (draft the Fund’s AML Documents; manage the Market Entry Forms; ensure the accuracy of RBE filings; cause the Fund to be registered with the AED, CSSF, or Go AML as the case may be).
- Participate to the acceptance process of new business relationships (ie Distributors, Investment Managers, Investors).
- Monitor, control and verify the compliance of the AML policy on a regular basis.
- Review escalations performed by the Service providers, and potentially implement the required actions in relation to submit SARs and STRs.
- Regularly report to the Funds’ Board of Directors on AML risks, and participate to the Board of Directors’ meetings to present the results of the RC controls.
- Report internally on the activity of the team and key AML risks identified, regarding the overall framework and particular products, to participate to the improvement of the internal control system from an AML perspective, and periodically participate to the Company’s Executive Committee to present the results of these controls.
- Act as the privileged contact person with the Luxembourg authorities, and all Funds’ relationships with regards to the AML questions.
- Assist the Funds Board of Directors in responding to any AML question raised by the Funds’ external auditors.
- Participate to the AML Regulatory Watch of the Company.
- Work in close relationship with the different risk and compliance lines of defense (L1, L1 Risk and Compliance, L2 Compliance and internal audit).

**Your profile**:

- University degree (BAC +5 minimum) in Economics or Finance.
- 5 to 10 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 eligibl