Cross Border Manager (80-100%)

A career at Lombard Odier means working for a renowned global wealth and asset manager, with a strong focus on sustainable investing. An innovative bank of choice for private and institutional clients, our independently owned Firm is one of the best-capitalised banking groups in the world, managing close to CHF 300 billion and operating from over 25 offices across 4 continents.
 

With a history spanning over 230 years, Lombard Odier is an investment house providing a comprehensive offering of discretionary and advisory portfolio management, wealth services and custody. We also offer asset management services and investment strategies through Lombard Odier Investment Managers and provide advanced banking technology to other financial institutions.
 

“Rethink Everything” is our philosophy – it is at the heart of everything we do. We have grown stronger through more than 40 financial crises by rethinking the world around us to provide a fresh investment perspective for our clients.

Cross Border Manager (80-100%)

Conduct ongoing surveillance of cross-border regulatory developments and ensure timely identification and reporting of relevant impacts for the organization, maintain a cross-border control framework and escalate any deviation to the Head of Cross border within the COO function.

YOUR ROLE:

Act as a central coordination and expertise hub for cross-border risk management across the Private Clients Business. As Deputy to the Head of Cross Border, the role focuses on risk oversight, governance, and execution of strategic initiatives, ensuring alignment between regulatory requirements and business activities.

• Proactively identify, assess, and escalate cross-border risks through appropriate governance forums
• Ensure a robust and effective 1st Line of Defence (LoD) control framework, including clear escalation channels
• Design, implement, and continuously enhance cross-border controls, procedures, and monitoring tools (e.g., travel approvals, activity controls)
• Drive consistency and standardization of processes across markets and teams
• Ensure documentation, guidelines, and internal manuals remain accurate, operationally relevant, and aligned with internal policies
• Lead or contribute to cross-functional strategic project related to cross‑border risk management, documentation harmonization, process optimization and operational efficiency
• Serving as the primary point of contact for all cross‑border queries for all stakeholders (1st and 2nd line) providing clear, consistent and business-oriented guidance to internal stakeholders and managing queries from internal and external auditors.
• partner closely with the Central Business Risk Managers team and other functions to strengthen, streamline and maintain the cross-border controls and monitoring framework,
• promote a risk-aware culture within the business by providing strong expertise, feedback and practical solutions.

YOUR PROFILE :

• More than 7 years’ experience in Banking and Finance industries: in Risk, Compliance, or audit function.
• Strong understanding of regulatory practices and risk management through studies or experience
• Able and willing to work within a fast-paced, pressured and demanding environment
• Strong interpersonal skills, relationship building and influencing skills and ability to effectively partner with all levels of management across numerous teams to help drive the cross-border agenda
• Demonstrated superior problem solving and decision-making skills. The candidate must be able to identify issues, seek solutions and gain (near) consensus regarding outcome.
• Strong capacity to handle a wide range of diverse tasks and responsibilities simultaneously while maintaining high-quality output
• Ability to demonstrate personal initiative, ownership and accountability 
• Strong analytical thinking, attention to details and problem-solving capabilities. 
• Strong oral and written communication and presentation skills with the ability to convey complex regulatory concepts clearly to both stakeholders and top management.
• Ability to work independently, collaboratively with cross-functional teams and understand when to seek advice or guidance from peers or management 
• Fluent (written and oral) in English; French or German will be an advantage
• Excellent working knowledge of MS Office tools
• Swiss domiciled

Our Maison’s DNA is defined by five core values. Excellence drives us to be the best at what we do, while Innovation fuels our progress. Respect underpins every interaction, and Integrity shapes our actions. Together, we are One Team, united in serving our clients with unwavering dedication.

As a responsible and supportive employer, we promote a diverse and inclusive work environment for our employees and candidates. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are woven into the fabric of our Maison’s DNA, and we strive to ensure that our employees can fulfill both their personal and professional aspirations by encouraging internal mobility and individual upskilling programs. We firmly believe that building Diverse Teams contributes to our successes and to deliver on this, we actively embed Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in our business strategy.

It is an exciting time to join our Teams. All applications will be handled in the strictest confidence.