Governance & Risk Oversight Manager Legal & Compliance

EFG International seeks a Senior Governance & Risk Oversight Manager in Geneva to lead compliance risk management, coordinate monitoring activities, and support the COO in maintaining robust internal control frameworks.

This senior position is embedded within the Legal & Compliance COO Office, where the incumbent directly assists the Chief Operating Officer in steering the Group’s compliance risk management strategy. The role provides essential structure, coordination, and analytical oversight across all primary compliance risk processes, ensuring alignment with global standards and regulatory expectations.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the central global contact for all issues concerning the Legal & Compliance risk framework.
• Maintain and regularly update the risk taxonomy and compliance risk mapping, ensuring consistency with the Global Risk function’s methodologies.
• Oversee uniform risk classification across the Compliance function and ensure traceability with Group Risk definitions.
• Coordinate periodic reviews of the Compliance Risk Appetite Statement with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and Group Risk to align with regulatory and strategic goals.
• Integrate key risk processes (RCSA, KRI/KPI, CRA, monitoring, and audit themes) into a cohesive, documented compliance risk framework.
• Design and document second-line-of-defense (2LOD) regulatory controls for Legal & Compliance in collaboration with SMEs.
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive monitoring plan covering all compliance risks, defining scope, methodology, and frequency.
• Coordinate the execution of 2LOD monitoring activities with local teams and ensure timely completion.
• Consolidate results from monitoring activities and thematic reviews, ensuring quality and consistency of findings.
• Assess the impact of identified findings on the function’s residual risk profile and ensure appropriate escalation.
• Track remediation actions linked to monitoring outcomes and validate closure with control owners.
• Ensure documentation of controls and monitoring results is complete, traceable, and audit-ready.
• Act as the primary contact for external auditors and internal assurance teams on monitoring-related topics.
• Lead the annual Compliance Risk Assessment (CRA) for all entities.
• Challenge local submissions and engage with stakeholders to ensure accurate risk scoring and appropriate mitigation measures.
• Consolidate results and produce executive-level reporting and dashboards.
• Track and report progress of CRA-related action plans.
• Collaborate with SMEs to update the CRA along the regulatory and internal risk framework.
• Collaborate with the Head of L&C Transformation on related system and process enhancements.
• Consolidate and analyze reported data, trends, and actions from local teams and SMEs.
• Coordinate and challenge KRI/KPI results, including path to green where required.
• Facilitate the annual review cycle: propose new indicators and decommission outdated ones.
• Validate changes with SMEs to ensure consistency and relevance.
• Prepare reporting and narrative for governance committees.
• Ensure linkage between indicators and other compliance risk processes (e.g., RCSA, audit).
• Provide risk insights and briefing materials to the COO and Group Head of Legal and Compliance for governance meetings.
• Represent the COO in internal committees and working groups as needed.
• Maintain oversight of open actions related to audits, risk assessments, and Board requests.

Requirements

• Solid understanding of compliance environments and internal control frameworks in banking or financial services.
• Autonomy, reliability, and high ownership mindset; able to deliver in fast-paced and high-responsibility contexts.
• Global mindset with excellent cross-cultural communication skills.
• Excellent analytical and report structuring skills (Excel, PowerPoint; Power BI is a plus).
• Able to constructively challenge, consolidate inputs, and ensure data integrity.
• Fluency in English
• Minimum 10 years’ experience in financial crime compliance, sanctions advisory, or internal controls within private banking or financial institutions.
• Demonstrated experience leading or coordinating risk frameworks, control testing, and monitoring activities.
• Prior exposure to high-level governance, audit interaction, and regulatory scrutiny.
• University degree in Law, Economics, Business Administration, or related field.

Nice to have

• Power BI skills

About the company

EFG International is a global private banking group offering private banking and asset management services to clients in over 40 locations worldwide. The company strives to be an employer of choice by providing a stimulating, dynamic, and inclusive work environment founded on mutual respect. EFG believes that team diversity fosters better decision-making and innovation, empowering entrepreneurial minds to create value for clients and communities.

• Accountability: Taking ownership for tasks and challenges as well as seeking continuous improvement
• Hands-on: Being proactive to rapidly deliver high-quality results
• Passionate: Being committed and striving for excellence
• Solution-driven: Focusing on client outcomes and treating clients fairly with a risk-aware mindset
• Partnership-oriented: Promoting collaboration and teamwork. Working together with an entrepreneurial spirit.