Experienced Compliance Officer, Financial Crime Compliance

Location: Zurich, Switzerland; the role will move to Baar in 2030.

Company

hirify.global is a family-owned and publicly listed financial services company headquartered in Zurich, with more than 2,000 professionals across 28 locations globally.

What you will do

• Conduct complex transaction monitoring and holistic financial crime investigations involving unusual patterns, unexplained fund flows, money laundering, and sanctions risks.
• Assess client and transaction activity using KYC information, source of wealth and funds, counterparties, jurisdictions, ownership structures, and adverse information.
• Investigate cross-border transactions, high-risk relationships, and potential sanctions evasion or circumvention.
• Evaluate economic rationale, plausibility, inconsistencies, and emerging financial crime risk indicators.
• Prepare evidence-based investigation reports, risk assessments, and recommendations; escalate potentially suspicious activity and support regulatory reporting.
• Provide independent challenge, collaborate with Front Office, Legal, Risk, and Operations, and improve transaction monitoring standards and controls.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of relevant experience in Financial Crime Compliance, AML, transaction monitoring, or financial crime investigations within financial services.
• Bachelor’s degree in Law, Economics, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Strong knowledge of AML, sanctions, transaction monitoring, and applicable financial crime regulatory requirements.
• Strong analytical and investigative capabilities, sound judgement, and the ability to handle complex and sensitive cases.
• Ability to assess complex transaction patterns and produce clear, risk-based conclusions.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to provide constructive and independent challenge.
• High integrity, discretion, professional skepticism, and attention to detail.
• Fluency in English and German.
• Affinity for Artificial Intelligence and willingness to use AI-enabled tools and ways of working.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree.
• Additional language skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Zurich location with collaboration spaces and free lunch.
• Friendly, diverse team in an open-office environment.
• Access to current technology and an agile way of working.
• Flat hierarchy, collaboration across levels, and a collaborative campus environment.