Head of Client Documentation, KYC & Tax Compliance / Head of Client Documentation, KYC & Tax Compliance

Job Opportunity: Senior Leader at a Private Banking Institution

Executive Partners is seeking a senior leader to join a prestigious private banking institution. This key position focuses on overseeing client documentation, KYC controls, and international tax compliance. The role skillfully combines team management with technical oversight of account lifecycle documentation, complex ownership structures, and relationships with external asset managers and introducers.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate the team's daily activities, allocating work according to expertise, capacity, and priorities.
• Oversee documentation reviews for account openings, updates, and closures, ensuring adherence to applicable regulations and internal policies.
• Assess complex structures, including trusts, foundations, investment funds, holding companies, and multilayer ownership arrangements.
• Ensure consistency between client documentation, KYC information, and records entered by the Front Office.
• Identify missing documentation and discrepancies, providing clear, documented feedback and escalating risks as necessary.
• Oversee applicable CRS/automatic exchange of information, FATCA, Qualified Intermediary (QI), and IFU obligations, including reporting deadlines.
• Manage the opening and closure of external asset manager and introducer relationships, along with the administration and control of related retrocessions.
• Maintain effective operational and regulatory controls, reporting activity KPIs to senior management.
• Develop team capabilities through coaching, training, and performance management.
• Work closely with internal and external stakeholders, contribute to departmental projects, and identify opportunities for process automation and operational improvement.

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