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The role acts as a centre of competence within the entity in connection with Compliance and Anti/Money Laundering aspects.
The Local Team Head of Compliance and Money Laundering Reporting (CMLRO) Officer Italy supports and advises senior management as well as front employees in respect of regulatory issues, including those relating to financial crime, and independently monitors the business.
The role is a second line of defense role.
The role reports directly to the Chief Risk Officer of Bank Julius Baer Europe S.A. (BJBE) and collaborates with the Chief Compliance Officer of Bank Julius Baer Europe S.A..
Locally, a local reporting line is in place to the Legal Entity Responsible.
**YOUR CHALLENGE**:
**_General/ Compliance Culture _**:
- Ensure the compliance of BJBE with applicable banking and securities laws, regulations and internal guidelines regarding Securities Compliance, AML/CFT, Anti-Fraud and Sanctions
- Collaborate closely with the BJBE Management and Head Office in order to ensure that the Compliance activities and staffing are commensurate with the business volume, business complexity and risk appetite of BJBE and Julius Baer Group Ltd.
- Ensure that BJBE staff is trained and kept aware of significant compliance related topics and regulations
**_Relationship with Regulators and Authorities _**
- Maintain a sound and regular relationship with the Italian authorities and regulator
- Ensure the respect of the reporting to the local regulators
- Inform Italian regulators periodically about the compliance status of the Italian branch and ad hoc when required
- Report significant potential weaknesses and breaches to the relevant supervisory authority transparently and at early stages
**_Compliance Programme _**:
- Implement and maintain all relevant global standards as defined in the Global Julius Baer Compliance Program in BJBE under consideration of the relevant local regulations and laws
- Analyse periodically the business activities in the local entity in order to assess the existing compliance risks
- Conduct appropriate controls following the "Three-Lines-of-Defence-Model" and ensure that the number and design of controls is commensurate with the level of risks (risk based approach)
- Provide Management assurance by periodically testing the adherence to compliance rules
- Prepare regular and ad-hoc reports for BJBE Management and Compliance Head Office with regard to the execution of compliance activities and respective outcomes
**_Compliance Advisory Service _**:
- Provide advice to and liaise with BJBE Management on compliance related matters
- Monitor relevant websites and other publications for announcements, updates, amendments and changes to regulations on an ongoing basis
- Update BJBE Management in the location on any regulatory changes with relevance to their respective area of responsibility
- Participate in the new business activities process
**_Projects _**:
- Participation in projects touching on compliance matters at BJBE or Head Office
- Lead and/or participate in task forces
**_People _**:
- Act as a role model, for leadership, demonstrating and engendering a strong sense of integrity, passion for excellence and adherence to all the firm's policies, principles, procedures and values within the team
- Defining organization to guarantee efficiency, consistency and quality of delivery (definition of roles & responsibilities, guarantee permanent staffing, supervise team activities, define necessary trainings and support development of each team member)
- Oversight and ensuring mandatory training and annual attestation, and ensuring that the entire function complies
- Responsible for continuously ensuring the health and safety of all employees within their area of responsibility.
**YOUR PROFILE**:
**Professional and Technical**:
- Experienced Chief Compliance officer or Deputy Chief Compliance Officer with longstanding experience in terms of EU regulations and Italian regulation more specifically
- Qualified Compliance and banking specialist, auditor, risk manager, compliance officer or similar
- Vast experience in the international wealth management industry (HNWI, UHNWI) specializing in Compliance, Risk Management or Audit
- Detailed knowledge of the EU and Italian regulatory framework and good understanding of international regulatory standards
- Solid experience in dealing with regulators and respective requests
- Solid project management experience as leader and project member
- Proficiency in English and Italian (any further language is an asset).
**Personal and social**:
- Passionate with appetite for driving and implementing change with both a control and a service mind-set
- Ability to deep dive and tackle topics "hands on" when