Junior Investment Controller

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.

As part of the **Risk & Compliance Department**, working on the **Investment Controlling and Support team**, and reporting directly to the team head, you will mainly be responsible for carrying out controls on investment restrictions and other related production activities.

**Your role**:
The team’s duties include the following:

- Interpreting and monitoring investment restrictions and policies as defined by law, regulations and contracts for different funds domiciled in different countries.
- Daily analysis and monitoring of compliance with investment restrictions.
- Eligibility assessment of the portfolio in line with applicable regulation requirements.
- Managing the 2002/77/ procedures in relation to the active overruns recorded (drafting of notifications, monitoring of remediation plans).
- Involvement in production of indicators and reporting possible overruns, as well as submitting executive summary reports to the various recipients concerned (FPS Europe's management committee, fund managers and boards of directors).

**Your profile**:
Qualifications and experience:

- University degree (BAC+4/BAC+5) in Finance, Economics, Risk Management and/or Mathematics/Statistics.
- Minimum 1-2 years’ proven experience in the area of investment restrictions, the investment fund industry or with a banking institution.

Specific knowledge:

- Knowledge of the regulations applicable to Fund investment controlling activity. (in-depth knowledge of SFDR is a plus)
- Knowledge of processes and analysis method relating to monitoring compliance with legal and regulatory provisions and investment restrictions (CSSF procedure 2002/77).
- Knowledge of the different businesses involved in the investment fund industry (custodian bank, transfer agent and fund administration), of financial products (in particular derivatives) and of financial markets, as well as of risk management techniques.
- Ability to interpret legal and regulatory provisions as well as investment policies and guidelines.
- Knowledge of certain notions in the area of IT is a plus.

Languages:

- Written and spoken fluency in French and English (German a plus).

**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.

**Diversity & Inclusion**:
**_Pictet is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating a diverse environment. We respect all individuals and seek their inclusion in the workplace._