Cross Border Manager (80‑100%)
Your role as Deputy to the Head of Cross Border focuses on risk oversight, governance, and execution of strategic initiatives, ensuring alignment between regulatory requirements and business activities.
Responsibilities
* Act as a central coordination and expertise hub for cross‑border risk management across the Private Clients Business.
* Proactively identify, assess, and elevate cross‑border risks through appropriate governance forums.
* Ensure a robust and effective 1st Line of Defence (LoD) control framework, including clear escalation channels.
* Design, implement, and continuously enhance cross‑border controls, procedures, and monitoring tools (e.g., travel approvals, activity controls).
* Drive consistency and standardization of processes across markets and teams.
* Ensure documentation, guidelines, and internal manuals remain accurate, operationally relevant, and aligned with internal policies.
* Lead or contribute to cross‑functional strategic projects related to cross‑border risk management, documentation harmonization, process optimization, and operational efficiency.
* Serve as the primary point of contact for all cross‑border queries for all stakeholders (1st and 2nd line), providing clear, consistent, and business‑oriented guidance to internal stakeholders and managing queries from internal and external auditors.
* Partner closely with the Central Business Risk Managers team and other functions to strengthen, streamline and maintain the cross‑border controls and monitoring framework, promote a risk‑aware culture within the business by providing strong expertise, feedback and practical solutions.
Qualifications
* More than 7 years' experience in Banking and Finance industries in Risk, Compliance, or audit function.
* Strong understanding of regulatory practices and risk management.
* Able and willing to work within a fast‑paced, pressured and demanding environment.
* Strong interpersonal skills, relationship building and influencing skills, and ability to effectively partner with all levels of management across numerous teams to help drive the cross‑border agenda.
* Demonstrated superior problem‑solving and decision‑making skills; able to identify issues, seek solutions and gain (near) consensus regarding outcomes.
* Strong capacity to handle a wide range of diverse tasks and responsibilities simultaneously while maintaining high‑quality output.
* Ability to demonstrate personal initiative, ownership, and accountability.
* Strong analytical thinking, attention to details and problem‑solving capabilities.
* Strong oral and written communication and presentation skills with the ability to convey complex regulatory concepts clearly to stakeholders and top management.
* Ability to work independently, collaboratively with cross‑functional teams and understand when to seek advice or guidance from peers or management.
* Fluent written and oral communication in English; French or German will be an advantage.
* Excellent working knowledge of MS Office tools.
* Swiss domiciled.
We are an equal opportunities employer.
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