Operational Compliance Officer

Kaiser Partner Privatbank AG seeks an Operational Compliance Officer in Zürich to support front-office teams with compliance transactions, research, and client documentation review.

This position serves as a bridge between the Compliance department and front-office units, including Private Banking and Banking for Professionals. The role focuses on providing operational support for specific compliance-related business transactions, conducting necessary research, and ensuring the quality of client documentation while consolidating expertise across these areas.

Responsibilities

• Delivering operational assistance to Private Banking and Banking for Professionals teams regarding compliance-specific transactions.
• Performing and organizing compliance research, including World-Check and adverse media checks.
• Conducting substantive and formal preliminary reviews of client documentation, ensuring quality assurance within established compliance frameworks.
• Managing and coordinating inquiries from correspondent banks.
• Monitoring payment transactions and clarifying issues in close cooperation with front-office and compliance colleagues.
• Supporting the creation, revision, and quality assurance of business profiles.
• Contributing to management proposals related to compliance matters.
• Addressing operational compliance interface issues between Compliance and Front Office.
• Ensuring consistent and high-quality handling of recurring compliance issues.
• Collaborating closely with Relationship Managers, assistants, and the Client Compliance Team.
• Building, maintaining, and consolidating expertise across Compliance, Private Banking, and Banking for Professionals.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant field such as business administration, law, or banking/finance, or equivalent education.
• Several years of professional experience in compliance, front office, or a comparable cross-functional role within the banking sector.
• Strong understanding of banking processes, regulatory requirements, and client structures.
• High reliability, integrity, and a strong sense of responsibility, along with a structured, independent, and precise work approach.
• Excellent communication skills and a high level of service orientation toward front-office departments.
• Ability to handle complex issues in a pragmatic, solution-oriented, and implementation-focused manner.
• Excellent German and English language skills.

Nice to have

• Experience in payment transactions and dealing with correspondent banks.
• Any additional foreign languages.

About the company

Kaiser Partner Privatbank AG encourages new thinking to help wealth navigate global change successfully. The company values sharing knowledge, experience, and talents to provide comprehensive advice to clients, aiming to preserve client assets for the long term and create new ones.

• Encouraging new thinking to navigate global change.
• Sharing knowledge, experience, and talents for comprehensive client advice.
• Preserving client assets for the long term and creating new ones.