Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Especially since the Russia-Ukraine conflict, national and international sanctions have increasingly been the focus of the general public. Adopting a proactive and dynamic approach and leveraging technology, best practices and international cooperation are crucial to effectively manage and mitigate sanctions risks. In this role, my tasks include, amongst others: - Ensuring adequate assessment and providing advisory support on sanctions related matters escalated from the Business and other Compliance Departments; - Ensuring prompt identification, escalation and action of Sanctions risks; - Managing frozen/blocked accounts; - Assisting Team Head Sanctions in relevant investigations/cases.
- Investigating high volume payment alerts within the Screening tool and providing consistent detailed rationales for decisions to release/reject/block; - Reviewing money transfers sanction alerts and assessing whether they are permissible or require further investigation; - Ensuring hits/alerts are handled by defined procedures and meeting standards for both quality and timeliness; - Evaluate repetitive items and conduct trend analysis to reduce the amount of false hits received; - Staying abreast of regulatory changes and sanctions as well as AML related news, with an emphasis on Swiss, EU, UK, OFAC and UN sanctions-related developments.
Due to the growing number of increasingly complex new regulations, the extraterritorial application of specific laws and more rigorous enforcement activities of (foreign) authorities, as well as the mounting ethical expectations of customers the main compliance goal is to constantly refine skills and embed the appropriate compliance standards throughout Helvetia Switzerland. My main responsibility is supporting the head of the Specialist Unit for Combating Money Laundering (AML) and Terrorist Financing within Legal and Compliance Switzerland of Helvetia Switzerland. My tasks included, amongst others: - Determining, identifying, reviewing and/or follow-up monitoring of increased risk business relationships; - Determining, identifying and reviewing and/or follow-up monitoring business relationships with politically exposed persons (PEP); - Reviewing and/or follow-up monitoring business relationships with high-risk and other monitored jurisdictions evaluated by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF); - Reviewing business relationships with domiciliary companies; - Writing and reporting risk management analyses; - Writing and reporting suspiciours activities reports to the Money Laundering Reporting Office Switzerland (MROS). I also act as an internal contact person for Helvetia Switzerland employees in the various business units regarding the identification and verification of new and existing customers on the basis of money laundering requirements (Know-Your-Customer principle, KYC) as well as general questions about the internal directives, regulations and laws on Combating Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing. Furthermore, I worked on the revision of the internal directive on Combating Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing.
The main objective of the Embassy of Switzerland is to uphold and strengthen the relations between Switzerland and Kenya as well as the relations between Switzerland and Burundi, Rwanda, Somalia and Uganda. The Embassy also functions as the Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) based in Nairobi. My responsibility was to support the Deputy Heads of Mission (job-sharing) in political and cultural matters. My tasks included, among others: - drafting the annual economic report of Kenya; - drafting the annual human rights reports of Kenya and Uganda; - writing monthly policy briefs about Uganda; - writing situation reports about Uganda in the framework of the COVID-9 crisis management; - organising, supervising and supporting the Embassy's Small Grants; - attending and reporting on meetings with the UN and EU groups; - managing the Embassy's social media activities.
The governments of the 26 cantons of Switzerland coordinate through the Conference of Cantonal Governments in order to be able to represent cantonal interests in a united manner at federal level. It is mainly concerned with the renewal and further development of federalism, the division of tasks between the Confederation and the cantons, decision-making at federal level, the execution of federal tasks by the cantons as well as foreign and European policy. My responsibility was to support the deputy secretary general in internal, intergovernmental and foreign political matters. My tasks included, among others: - preparing proposals and speaking notes for the Executive Committee and Plenary Assembly; - preparing documents for meetings at political and technical levels; - writing protocols of political and technical meetings; - supporting the organisation of a national conference about media change and federalism; - writing chapters on legal matters of the strategic paper about media change and federalism; - supporting the political analysis of legal provisions regarding the agreement between Switzerland and the UK in citizen's rights in the context of Brexit; - writing several responses and position papers as part of the consultation procedure on integration policy.
Provided IT support to users, resolving issues with software, hardware, and general computer systems, acting as the initial point of contact for IT problems.