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University Graduate - Compliance Focus Track 100% (m/f/d)
Julius Bär is seeking a graduate with a master’s degree in economics, law, or a related field for its graduate program (starting in April 2027) in London, to work in the Regulation & Product Compliance division. The position involves responsibilities in compliance advisory, monitoring, regulatory change management, and collaboration with regulatory authorities.
About the Regulation and Product Compliance Team
- The Regulation and Product Compliance Department is a central pillar in the development of the company's operational tools, including regulatory compliance and product governance processes for new products and funds.
- We are an integrated network function that provides oversight, guidance, and accountability across the four business regions.
- We work closely with senior management on local and regulatory issues throughout the bank, including key senior executives.
- We share responsibility for our compliance activities with the Product Compliance Department.
- Our role is to provide support with regard to legislative regulation. We aim to understand the business, its customers, and its operations, as well as the regulatory controls it uses to meet its legal and regulatory obligations.
Tasks
- Compliance Consulting: Providing advice and guidance on compliance requirements, product templates, and portfolio and governance issues.
- Compliance Monitoring and Assessments: Assessing whether the company’s policies, processes, and controls are functioning effectively and contributing to the effective management of compliance risks.
- Regulatory Change Management: Assessing the impact of changes on the company's specific requirements.
- Regulatory Matters: Coordinating and advising on the company’s correspondence with the tax authorities, participating in regulatory oversight meetings, and maintaining the compliance risk register.
- Controls and Control Tests: Measuring the design and operational effectiveness of controls.
- Advising clients and/or employees of fund clients (both external and internal) who are directly exposed to risk.
- Due diligence and investigations to ensure an understanding of compliance and alignment with external and industry-wide standards.
- Regulatory Reporting: Preparing reports for management and, where applicable, providing substantive and technical support for regulatory filings.
- Regulatory Training: Assistance with implementation or ensuring that the company complies with regulatory expectations and processes by ensuring that management and relevant personnel maintain an adequate understanding of applicable laws and regulations, including audits by external auditors and assessments by senior management.
- Efforts to promote a culture of compliance within the company.
Our Offer / Program
- Develop comprehensive expertise in product compliance, take on strategic responsibilities—including analysis—and become an expert in the relevant compliance area by working closely with our experts.
- Opportunity to work with colleagues from the business unit and the compliance department across the entire company and gain firsthand experience in the compliance process, including legal and external partners.
- Ability to work in a team environment.
- The ability to view the company's business, people, and systems from different perspectives.
Your profile
- A master’s degree or equivalent in economics, law, political science, finance (or another field) from a university, or research/project work resulting in a single academic grade (e.g., a 1:1 cumulative GPA).
- Total practical experience gained through internships in the financial services industry or in another setting (3–10 months).
- Excellent knowledge of legal and technical mathematics.
- Working language: English.
- Interpersonal skills, a proactive nature, and a high level of motivation.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, analytical thinking, and the ability to see the big picture rather than getting lost in the details.
- Excellent Communication
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