Central File Specialist

  • Experience level : Intermediate
  • Entity : Bank Syz
  • Office : Geneva

Job summary: 

If you are passionate about meeting client needs, want to challenge the status quo and be part of an innovative environment and future, the Syz Group can bring you what you are looking for. Working at Syz takes a blend of collaboration, entrepreneurial spirit and willingness to pull together. In return for your talent and dedication, you can expect a fast-paced, stimulating work environment, a flat hierarchy with direct access to senior leaders, a culture hungry for innovation and the opportunity for your voice to be heard and your ideas to be listened to.

Join our Central File team, a close-knit team that is the cornerstone of our private bank where your role will be varied. We are the custodians of critical data, ensuring seamless operations and robust compliance. Our responsibilities extend beyond meticulous record-keeping; we are entrusted with the formal verification of documentation, processing of openings, mutations, and closures of clients’ accounts. We ensure the integrity and quality of the Bank’s clients’ data, forming the foundation of efficient client service, regulatory compliance, risk management, and audit controls.

Key responsabilities
  • Open clients’ accounts
  • Manage formal documentation and clients’ data (mutations, account closure, estate) 
  • Identify and apply standard tax requirements (CRS/FATCA/QI)
  • Grant online banking access
  • Scan and file documents related to account openings and mutations
  • Maintain clients, business introducers, third-party managers and insurances files
  • Carry out legal searches for the Legal department
  • Provide support to Front, Legal and Compliance teams
Your profile

Professional experience

  • At least 4-5 years relevant experience in a Central File or Client Data Management team
  • Experience in account openings, as well as analyzing and coding mutations

Professional competencies:

  • Good knowledge of accounts opening documentation (CDB) requirements 
  • Knowledge of FATCA/QI/CRS tax requirements
  • Legal knowledge, particularly in banking, personal, corporate and contract law areas

Personal competencies:

  • Good organizational and planning skills
  • Ability to multi-task, with a good level of autonomy and a resourceful and result-oriented approach
  • Attention to details, precise and rigorous
  • Flexible and hands-on attitude
  • Excellence-driven and service orientation
  • Good team player
  • Ability to work effectively under pressure in a fast-paced environment

Language requirements:

  • Excellent command of English and French, both spoken and written
  • Another European language an asset

IT Skills:

  • Very good command of IT tools: MS Office suite, especially Excel
  • Knowledge of G2 an asset

Education:

  • Central File degree (e.g. VisionCompliance) or relevant experience          
  • CFC in Banking or equivalent qualification

Other:

  • Mandatory Swiss residence

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