Head Financial Crime Compliance — Sygnum Bank
- Location
- Zurich
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- 13 days ago
Role overview
As Head Financial Crime Compliance and Deputy MLRO, you will lead and oversee Sygnum’s entire Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) function, comprising two subteams each headed by its own Lead.
You will hold overall accountability for the design, effectiveness and continuous development of the bank’s AML/CFT framework across the full client lifecycle, setting the standards, risk appetite and priorities that both subteams operate to.
While leading through your Team Leads, you remain hands-on and close to the casework and credible as a senior technical authority – stepping in on the most complex, sensitive and higher-risk matters – and you guide, coach and motivate the function to deliver consistently high-quality, risk-based outcomes in line with applicable regulatory requirements and internal policies.
- As Head Financial Crime Compliance and Deputy MLRO, you will lead and oversee Sygnum’s entire Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) function, comprising two subteams each headed by its own Lead.
- You will hold overall accountability for the design, effectiveness and continuous development of the bank’s AML/CFT framework across the full client lifecycle, setting the standards, risk appetite and priorities that both subteams operate to.
- Your Main Responsibilities
- Holding formal line-management responsibility for the two FCC Team Leads (FCC Private Clients and FCC Institutionals), setting objectives, conducting performance reviews, supporting recruitment and fostering a positive, collaborative and high-performing culture across the function
Main responsibilities
- Your Main Responsibilities
- Holding formal line-management responsibility for the two FCC Team Leads (FCC Private Clients and FCC Institutionals), setting objectives, conducting performance reviews, supporting recruitment and fostering a positive, collaborative and high-performing culture across the function
- Remaining a hands-on leader, taking over responsibility and who stays close to the casework – stepping in personally on the most complex, sensitive and higher-risk files across both subteams rather than leading from a distance
- Overseeing workload allocation, case pipelines, turnaround times and resourcing across both subteams, ensuring adequate coverage and consistent throughput across the client lifecycle
- Coaching, mentoring and developing both Team Leads and their team members – building bench strength and future leaders – and providing constructive, timely feedback
- Acting as the senior point of escalation and final technical authority on the most complex, sensitive and higher-risk financial crime matters across both subteams
- Owning the overall quality, consistency and timeliness of the function’s output, ensuring aligned standards across both subteams and embedding a culture of continuous development across FCC processes and controls
- Owning Sygnum’s financial crime risk appetite, FCC strategy and control framework, and reporting on financial crime risk, key matters and KPIs to senior management, governance committees and the Board as required and in collaboration with the Chief Compliance Officer
- Leading engagement with FINMA, external auditors and other regulators on financial crime matters, and overseeing the bank’s suspicious activity reporting and related regulatory obligations
- Ensuring consistent standards, methodology and risk-based decision-making across the FCC Private Clients and FCC Institutionals subteams
Additional details
- Sygnum offers a comprehensive package of benefits for all team members.
- Attractive combination of market salaries and entrepreneurial incentive scheme Flexible/Work at home policies
Notes and original content
- They include:
- Attractive combination of market salaries and entrepreneurial incentive scheme
- Flexible/Work at home policies
