Regulatory Change Expert

At Julius Baer, we celebrate and value the individual qualities you bring, enabling you to be impactful, to be entrepreneurial, to be empowered, and to create value beyond wealth. Let’s shape the future of wealth management together.

Julius Baer is a leading Swiss private bank, a premium brand in global wealth management, and the largest pure play wealth manager in Singapore. You will be part of the Regulatory Business Transformation (RBT) team, a global setup focused on Change the Bank activities with a regulatory background within the COO Division, and reporting to Head RBT APAC. Our part in creating the bank of the future is to own regulatory change in a way that safeguards our business while strengthening Julius Baer’s reputation. Our ambition is not only to meet regulatory requirements, but to support our clients and strategic goals. Together with your team and the various stakeholders in the bank you find pragmatic approaches on how to translate regulation into business-friendly solutions.

**YOUR CHALLENGE**:
The role of a Regulatory Transformation Expert offers a complex job profile combining internal consulting with ownership responsibility for specific deliverables within the Bank’s broad project portfolio. For this exciting and challenging role, we are looking for an experienced change professional, who is passionate to find sound and pragmatic solutions to regulatory challenges. Someone who also has a good understanding and can read quickly into new and changing regulatory topics and guidelines (including but not limited to corporate governance & fair dealing guidelines, digital client platforms) in Singapore and Hong Kong.

Key features of the role include:
**Project Management**
- Taking ownership and delivery responsibility for standalone regulatory projects and regulatory streams within larger business or technology programmes (project management)
- Drive stakeholder alignment across CRO, Product Owners, other control functions as well as Business & IT to help design compliant processes for new solutions and tools
- Structure and facilitate risk discussions in relevant forums and decision bodies
- Manage cross-functional project teams including external consultants as per project structure

**Legal & Regulatory Consulting**
- Provide regulatory expertise in a broad number of areas (e.g. data, technology risk management, AML/KYC, & other regulatory / risk management topics for innovative use cases)
- Analyse the impact of new or changing regulations on bank’s business, op model and processes
- Develop sound and tangible business requirements to address regulation, including the design of related business processes and IT solutions (user stories)
- Support the respective project teams and product owners in drafting of memos, developing internal policies and guidelines, preparing the notifications of new solutions to regulators etc.
- Liaise and coordinate on regulatory questions with internal and external legal experts and consultants

**Regulatory Responsibilities &/Or Risk Management**
- Demonstration of appropriate values and behaviours including but not limited to standards on honesty and integrity, due care and diligence, fair dealing (treating customers fairly), management of conflicts of interest, competence and continuous development, adequate risk management, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations

**RANK**
- Director

**YOUR PROFILE**:
**Professional and Technical**
- University degree in Law, Finance and/or regulatory audit/consulting background in banking
- 8-10 years plus experience in managing regulatory projects in financial sector, preferably in private banking industry, or equivalent experience as a consultant
- Strong knowledge of key regulations and respective processes such as AML/KYC, Consumer Protection (i.e. Suitability, Regulatory Pricing), Data Privacy, Corporate Governance, Technology Risk Management (TM-E-1), Front Risk Management and other risk management topics
- Solid experience in both business analysis and change management (project structuring & planning, task tracking, managing budget, performing management updates, moderate steering cos etc)
- Experience with assessing regulatory impact on business processes and technology (identification of problems, solution options, opportunities) and providing foundation/input to solution design and leading the implementation of such changes
- Familiarity with Regtech solutions and experienced in regulatory assessment for Fintech solutions in general (e.g. MAS guidelines on technology risk management and outsourcing)
- Solid knowledge of private banking value chain and investment products / processes
- Hands on agile (SAFe is beneficial) experience and Jira. Proficiency in writing both user stories for scrum teams and business requirements documentation
- Prior experience in consulting is a strong asset

**Personal and Social**
- Strong analytical and conceptual skills
- Structured, independent, able