Job Summary

Lead Financial Crime Compliance for Switzerland and perform the responsibilities of the Country Money Laundering Reporting Officer in accordance with Group policies, procedures, standards and applicable Swiss requirements. The role provides independent second-line oversight, advice and challenge across anti-money laundering, counter-terrorist financing, counter-proliferation financing, sanctions and anti-bribery and corruption risks. Ensure FCC in Switzerland operates in accordance with Group and regulatory standards; act as Country Risk Framework Owner for the Financial Crime Compliance Principal Risk Type; oversee investigations, suspicious activity reporting, transaction monitoring, screening, risk assessments, regulatory engagement and remediation; and act as the Anti-Bribery and Corruption Lead for Switzerland.

Key Responsibilities

•    Serve as Country Head of Financial Crime Compliance (FCC), Country Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) and Country Risk Framework Owner for FCC in Switzerland, fulfilling all responsibilities under applicable laws, regulations and Bank policies.
•    Ensure Switzerland’s FCC framework, controls, systems and processes comply with Group and local requirements across AML/CTF/CPF, sanctions, anti-bribery and corruption, customer due diligence, screening, transaction monitoring and case management.
•    Oversee investigations, suspicious activity reporting and regulatory or law-enforcement enquiries, maintaining complete records, confidentiality and timely escalation while preventing tipping-off.
•    Assess financial crime risks across clients, products, transactions, geographies and emerging typologies; conduct country and global risk assessments; and translate findings into proportionate mitigation plans.
•    Maintain oversight of high-risk clients, watch lists, detection scenarios, case data, Deputy MLRO activities and risk remediation, ensuring controls remain effective and fit for purpose.
•    Advise and challenge stakeholders on FCC risk, regulatory interpretation and risk-management frameworks; recommend or implement responses and escalate material breaches, control failures or risk-tolerance exceedances.
•    Provide intelligence and investigative expertise for significant cases, risk methodologies and typology studies, partnering with Legal and other stakeholders and performing root-cause analysis to strengthen controls.
•    Set and implement Switzerland’s FCC strategy and operating model in alignment with Group direction and business objectives.
•    Ensure adequate people, processes, tools, frameworks and systems are in place to operate effective FCC controls.
•    Maintain a strong understanding of the business model and strategy to provide timely, risk-based FCC oversight, advice and challenge.
•    Build constructive relationships with key business and functional stakeholders to support sustainable strategic and tactical objectives.
•    Challenge and escalate activities outside risk appetite or tolerance until effective ownership and remediation are established.
•    Assess and communicate the business impact of financial crime regulatory developments, advise on their interpretation and application, and help resolve conflicts between regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

•    Strong knowledge of financial services, banking and relevant applicable laws and regulations in Switzerland
•    Strong analytical approach
•    Good communication and interpersonal skills, especially with business people
•    Good judgement enabling the provision of sound advice in difficult areas of risk and compliance
•    Inquisitive approach to practices, procedures and specific transactions
•    Independence and robustness
•    Personal authority, integrity and ethics
•    Ability to work under pressure, meet deadlines and work effectively with business units
•    Good command of Microsoft office
•    Proficiency in English, written and spoken
•    French and/or German optional

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.