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For strengthening our Global Sanctions Desk as part of the Compliance Department based in Zurich, we are looking for an eager, experienced, and team-minded Sanctions Compliance Officer with great care, passion, and excellence to work on challenges and tasks in the area of Sanctions Operations, including Payments and Securities, being welcomed and joined by a professional and well-diversified team.

YOUR CHALLENGE

• Assess and decide on transfer and trade requests of sanctions-restricted securities

• Review and decide on securities and funds transactions related to Russian clients who are in scope of cash deposit restrictions

• Manage third-party requests related to transactions of clients

• Manage real-time transaction hits against sanctions lists in the Bank’s electronic sanctions screening system as member of the (second level hit handling) team and investigate, and if necessary, escalate them to a senior team member

• Provide advise to and conduct training on Operations colleagues (as first level hit handling team) and Compliance Officers in group affiliates (as third level hit handling team)

• Support projects in the area of Sanctions Operations

• Support with third-party disclosure requests related to (sanctioned) clients

• Implement and develop processes, internal guidelines and conduct testing and other controls

YOUR PROFILE

• Completed bank apprenticeship, preferably with corresponding further education or degree in law, economics or banking & finance

• 3-5 years of working experience in banking, preferably with experience in the area of Sanctions Compliance, Securities and/or Operations

• Have an interest in world affairs as well as payments and/or securities relevant developments and their possible impacts on daily business with a good understanding of processes, systems and information technology

• Preferably project skills

• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to provide practical solutions

• A team player who is able to independently complete demanding tasks efficiently, reliably and with the necessary quality, even under time pressure

• Very good organizational, operational, analytical and communication skills

• Ready for new challenges and willingness to learn

• Fluent written and spoken language skills in German and English (knowledge of other languages is an advantage)

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