Business Oversight Manager

Pictet Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Pictet Group's UK PWM invites a Business Oversight Manager to join the London team. You will lead data analytics and risk/control activities, support the COO, and drive governance and regulatory reporting across Consumer Duty and Branch oversight.

We seek a proactive, detail-oriented professional with at least 3 years in wealth management or a similar role, strong Excel and PowerPoint skills, and a numerical or IT degree.

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience in wealth management or similar role.
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• Exposure to governance, regulatory reporting and risk/control activities.

Responsibilities

• Own the Consumer Duty framework execution, including testing and analysis (fair value, vulnerable clients).
• Execute business controls and oversight activities with data analytics to ensure regulatory compliance.
• Report results to the COO and propose remediation and process improvements.
• Contribute to the London Branch oversight framework and efficiency initiatives.
• Provide regular and ad-hoc data analyses for governance and regulatory reporting (Executive Committee, Consumer Duty Board).
• Manage access to key data sources, Tableau extracts and other systems for the London Branch.
• Assist in responses to regulatory/audit inquiries.

Skills

Data analytics

Risk control

Stakeholder management

Excel

PowerPoint

Education

Degree educated (or equivalent)

Numerical or IT discipline

Tools

Tableau

Job description

Career Opportunities: Business Oversight Manager (124925)

The Pictet Group is one of the world’s leading independent wealth and asset managers. Founded in 1805 and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the Group is represented at 31offices in financial centres worldwide, and employs over 5,100 people.

Pictet Wealth Management (PWM) combines more than 200 years of Swiss banking heritage with global investment expertise. The Partner-owned financial services group offers a comprehensive service for wealthy individuals and families, including discretionary and advisory investment solutions and family office services.

UK PWM provides investment services such as execution-only, advisory, and discretionary management services to clients in domestic and international markets including UK, Eastern Europe and Middle East.

A position is open for a Business Oversight Manager for UK PWM. The Business Oversight Manager is a key role in the Management Team reporting to the head of Business Oversight for UK PWM.

The Business Oversight Team supports the COO in the execution of a broad range of activities, including risk management, operations, outsourcing, project management, sales and pipeline management, financial and regulatory reporting etc. The role has a particular focus on data analytics and risk/control activities.

Your role

• Ownership of the execution of the Consumer Duty framework, including fair value assessments, qualitative and quantitative testing against defined good outcomes, vulnerable clients analysis and assessments.
• Responsible for the execution of business control and oversight activities including sample testing, data analytics,and review of output from centralised control functions, with the goal of confirming compliance with UK regulatory requirements and firm policies.
• Reporting of results to the COO and development of proposals to remediate findings and improve our ways of working.
• Provide input to the development of the London Branch oversight framework, including the development of new activities and opportunities for efficiency.
• Support the CEO of London Branch by providing regular and ad-hoc sales management data analysis and reporting, including book analysis, revenue analysis etc.
• Support the Head of Business Oversight and COO in the preparation of materials for governance meetings and regulatory reporting (e.g. Executive Committee and Consumer Duty Board Report).
• Participate in periodic reviews and projects, including new products/services and regulatory implementations.
• Manage and develop access to key data/information sources of the London Branch (including tableaus/system extracts and other means).
• Assist in preparation of response to regulatory/audit enquiries.

Your profile

• The role requires interactions with many different functions of the firm from Relationship Managers and Investment Specialists in the front office to Compliance, Finance, Operations and Technology. The ideal candidate should be able to interact effectively with these functions and stakeholder manage.
• The role has a wide and interesting scope, requiring candidates to have at least 3 years prior experience in wealth management or similar role.
• The role has a particular focus on data analytics and risk/control activities, therefore EXCEL skills (formulae) and experience handling larger sets of data are essential.
• Degree educated (or equivalent). Numerical or IT discipline preferred e.g. accounting, economics, finance.
• Motivated, proactive and energetic self-starter who takes ownership.
• Detail oriented with an investigative mindset, coupled with strong ability to critically analyse data and produce accurate, reconcilable output. Be able to take judgement.
• Good organizational skills - manage and prioritise multiple tasks across different time horizons within deadlines.
• Knowledge/experience of wealth management services and investment products, as well as wealth management regulatory landscape.
• Excellent MS skills, in particular Excel and PowerPoint. Interest in AI developments.

The ideal candidate will have existing experience working within risk or compliance of a UK wealth manager and have a strong interest in developing a career within this industry. They will be proactive and organised with an eye for detail, be able to efficiently and critically analyse data, and produce quality output.

Note

We will not accept any CVs via agencies

Diversity & Inclusion

Pictet is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating a diverse environment. We respect all individuals and seek their inclusion in the workplace.