Onboarding Business Partner

For one of our clients, an international private bank based in Geneva, we are looking for a:

ONBOARDING BUSINESS PARTNER

Responsibilities:

• Be in charge of the end-to-end client onboarding into the Bank.
• Deal directly with clients in a personable and professional manner from prospect stage through to the opening of accounts.
• Work in close coordination with Front Office, Operations, and the relevant Risk and Financial Crime departments across the business.
• Provide tailored, accurate, and swift assistance to the client, ensuring a timely, smooth, and positive onboarding experience.
• Have responsibility for ensuring that client onboarding files meet the required Bank's policy and regulatory standards.
• Act as a role model in respect of procedural requirements and have input into the Client Due Diligence policy and procedure development.

Profile Required:

• Excellent communication and diplomacy skills, including the ability to convey technical requirements to a non-specialist.
• Ability and polish required to engage with clients of the Private Bank, ensuring that conversations can be tailored to the level of the client.
• Confidence to communicate effectively with internal staff.
• Demonstrate excellent time-management, self-planning, and organizational skills, with the ability to manage deadlines and work under pressure.
• Understanding of regulatory issues/procedures, with comprehensive and extensive knowledge of AML and KYC regulations and standards.
• Ability to make evaluative judgments based on the analysis of factual and qualitative information relating to Source of Wealth, adverse media, etc., including analysis of external information such as third-party enhanced due diligence reports and reports in global media.
• Good understanding of the role of private bankers and private banking products, with the ability to empathize and appreciate the relevance of the private bankers' role in supporting the onboarding process.
• Ability to make clear presentations of information both written and orally.
• Good understanding of Microsoft standard packages, such as Word and Excel.
• Fluent in English; any other languages would be an asset.

All files will be treated with the utmost confidentiality.