VP Bank AG
Zürich
14 hours ago
Senior Compliance Officer
- 02 April 2026
- 100%
- Permanent position
- Zürich
About the job
Are you courageous and eager to seize new opportunities? Do you go the extra mile and are also an open, proactive personality with a strong customer and solution orientation? Then let's exceed the expectations of our internal and external clients together and continue writing the success story of VP Bank. With us, you will find room for creative ideas and the opportunity to actively shape the future.
Your challenge
In this versatile and varied role within our local compliance team, you will support us in implementing all compliance obligations of a private bank with an international client portfolio. You analyze complex, often internationally influenced matters, taking into account all relevant compliance risks and legal requirements. You work in a structured and critical manner, question elements of the facts, create well-founded assessments, and formulate clear recommendations for action. You maintain close and direct communication with our front offices and contribute to a strong awareness of compliance risks. The following topics will accompany you, among others:
- Conducting due diligences in the areas of client onboarding and KYC updates, transaction clarifications, and name matching
- Assessment of issues regarding relevant sanction risks and rules
- Answering questions related to VSB
- Collaboration with the Money Laundering Reporting Office Switzerland (MROS) and drafting money laundering reports
- Conducting training sessions and other awareness activities on compliance risks
- Supporting the targeted preparation of reports for management
Your profile
- Completed studies in law according to Swiss law and/or a university of applied sciences degree with compliance training
- Several years of experience in the compliance environment of an internationally active private bank
- Good knowledge of the services, products, and processes of a private bank
- In-depth expertise in the areas of anti-money laundering / KYC / cross-border / sanctions / investor protection
- Experience in money laundering investigations, including dealing with authorities (MROS) and preparing reports
- Strong process understanding as well as a solution-oriented, integral, and responsible personality with entrepreneurial and pragmatic thinking
- Structured stakeholder management
- Strong communication skills with internal interfaces
- Interest in coordinating tasks and driving topics forward
- Analytical, structured, and independent working style as well as the ability to quickly grasp complex matters
- Confident handling of priorities and decision-making ability in daily business
- Fluent German skills as well as business fluent English skills (spoken and written); additional language skills are an advantage
You have drive, want to contribute to advancing the bank every day, and have a distinctly positive approach to new challenges.
With us, you work in an environment that values initiative, team spirit, and respectful interaction – and offers you the opportunity to grow both professionally and personally.
We would like to address only direct applicants with this advertisement and kindly ask recruitment agencies to refrain from submitting profiles.
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VP Bank (Switzerland) AG was founded in 1988 in Zurich as a 100% subsidiary of VP Bank in Liechtenstein. With our location on Talstrasse in Zurich near Paradeplatz, we are at the heart of the Swiss banking world. A team of over 100 highly qualified, multilingual employees offers comprehensive services around asset management and investment advice.
