coni+partner AG

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Manage product projects from legal, regulatory, operational and project-management perspectives
• Advise specialists and managers on tax matters related to product development
• Provide advice on tax efficiency for financial transactions and investments
• Manage clients' investment needs, negotiate terms with clients' law firms, draft side letters, prepare memoranda, etc.
• Perform ongoing analysis of transaction tax for existing investments, initiate transaction tax measures and monitor tax structuring of financial transactions
• Work on documentation relating to a variety of fund structures and ensure compliance for onboarding investments
• Coordinate tax projects, processes and procedures with tax firms and authorities worldwide
• Develop a service catalog and define relevant interfaces with operational teams
• Investigate legal and regulatory considerations relevant to specific clients, products and jurisdictions
• Deliver training on tax matters and best practices for transaction-based tax
• Commission and manage external legal advisors and other service providers
• Undertake ad hoc situational projects

International Tax Advisor – Investment Funds

• Unterstützung von Investmentfondspraktiken, Beratung zu US-Steuerfragen und Reporting-Angelegenheiten für Private Equity-Investitionen und andere private Investitionsstrukturen
• Bereitstellung technisch fundierter, kommerziell ausgerichteter Beiträge zu einer breiten Palette von US-Fondsfragen
• Überprüfung komplexer Fondsstrukturen und Sicherstellung der Einhaltung der US-Steuervorschriften für Investmentfonds und deren Investoren
• Beratung zu US-Steuerberichtspflichten, einschließlich K-1-Formularen und Investorenoffenlegungen
• Unterstützung bei der Fondstrukturierung, -einführungen und laufenden operationellen Steuerangelegenheiten
• Technischer Ansprechpartner für interne Stakeholder und Investoren
• Identifizierung und Management von US-Steuerrisiken und Compliance-Verpflichtungen
• Beitrag zur Prozessverbesserung und Best Practices innerhalb der Funktion

Legal Counsel – US Tax, Private Equity

Paralegal

• Unterstützung der Fonteinheiten beim Onboarding von privaten und institutionellen Kunden
• Überprüfung der Einhaltung der Compliance beim Handling von Verträgen
• Bei Service Level Agreements und der Registrierung von Fonds
• Kontrolle der Vollständigkeit und Richtigkeit bei der Aufsetzung neuer Anlagestrukturen
• Registrierung von Investmentfonds bei den Behörden verschiedener Länder
• Prüfung der Fondsdokumentation, Prospekte, Anlegerinformationen und der regulatorischen Veröffentlichungs- und Reporting-Pflichten
• Hilfestellung bei der Ausarbeitung oder Bearbeitung von Verträgen
• Pflege und Aktualisierung der Fonds-Information und Dokumentation der Anlageprogramme für regulatorische Compliance
• Mitarbeit bei der Pflege von Kundenstammdaten und Informationen zu Investmentprogrammen
• Kaufmännische Mitarbeit bei Komitee-Sitzungen und Ad hoc Projekten.

Junior Paralegal, Fund Management, International

• Ensure compliance with the guidelines and regulations for each fund transaction in the short time available
• Supporting preparation of regulatory filings and processing regulatory monitoring tasks
• Responsible for coordinating internal and external parties before, during and after the settlement of fund transactions, as well as maintaining ongoing communication to ensure transparency
• Responsible for checking the completeness of transaction documents and for completing missing papers or information
• Review KYC documents prior to each fund transaction, and provide these documents during transactions if ad hoc queries arise
• Assisting the marketing material review process
• Monitoring and analyzing new regulatory developments
• Act as the point of contact for all enquiries relating to the settlement of fund transactions and associated documents
• Collaboration in the optimization of processes and work systems in the department.

Junior Paralegal, Compliance Asset Management

Controller

• As a support member of the fund controlling teams, responsible for a wide range of generalist tasks such as assisting with ongoing financial analyses, the budgeting process and forecasting, variance analyses, fee reconciliation and review, review of fund investments, ad hoc analyses, etc., to provide transparency and decision-making support for management
• Support with scenario analyses, research, financial projections and cash management
• Maintenance and continuous enhancement of management reporting
• Participation in the development and automation of reporting, budgeting and forecasting processes, and optimization of tools using AI to improve system efficiency and quality
• Participation in initiatives that promote AI-supported work environments, in cross-functional projects, and in linking IT and data flows.

Fund Controller

• Support and coordinate onboarding of private and institutional clients and external service providers
• Review compliance adherence when handling contracts, service level agreements, and fund registrations
• Control completeness and accuracy when establishing new investment structures
• Register investment funds with authorities in various countries (Luxembourg, UK, Ireland, USA, Spain, etc.)
• Review fund documentation, prospectuses, investor information and regulatory publication and reporting obligations
• Assist in drafting and reviewing contracts
• Maintain and update fund information and investment program documentation and ensure ongoing regulatory compliance
• Support maintenance of client master data, provision of information on investment programs, and storage of contracts in databases
• Commercial support for committee meetings
• Ad hoc projects

Paralegal, Asset Management

• Als Support-Mitarbeiter der Fonds-Controlling-Teams zuständig für eine breite Palette von generalistischen Aufgabenstellungen wie die Mitarbeit bei laufenden Finanzanalysen, dem Budgetierungs-Prozess und beim Forecasting
• Support bei Szenario Analysen, Recherchen, Finanz-Projektionen, beim Cash-Management, etc.
• Pflege und laufende Weiterentwicklung des Management Reportings
• Mitarbeit bei der Weiterentwicklung und Automatisierung der Reporting-, Budget- und Forecast-Prozesse sowie bei der Optimierung von Tools mit KI um die Effizienz und die Qualität der Systeme zu verbessern
• Mitarbeit bei Initiativen, die KI-gestützte Arbeitsumgebungen fördern und bei funktionsübergreifenden Projekten sowie bei der Verknüpfung von IT- bzw. Datenflüsse.

Fund Controller, IT-Skilled

Risk

• Ensure accurate risk reporting for investment products, including derivatives related to trading and treasury activities
• Report results to the Executive Board and the Risk Committee
• Maintain and improve reporting processes to ensure timely, efficient and accurate reporting
• Ensure appropriate product review by relevant functions (e.g., Legal, Accounting)
• Assess risks embedded in products
• Review market risk assessments performed by trading and treasury
• Prepare risk assessment reports for various committees
• Control market, credit and operational risks arising from banking activities
• Validate financial instrument models and reconcile data to ensure report accuracy
• Ensure the functionality and optimization of reporting tools, including process standardization
• Support the network's technical teams with risk management expertise
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements in line with the risk strategy
• Project management to optimize the department's tools, processes and systems.

Funds Quantitative Risk, Performance

Auditor

• Independent planning and execution of data-driven audits across the entire group using data analysis, ML and AI-powered audit tools to detect deviations from standards at an early stage and identify risks
• Translating an audit assignment into a data-analytical audit investigation, including IT-based tests, to uncover irregularities, statistical outliers, and systemic anomalies across the Group, thereby replacing random sampling controls with system-based audits
• Preparing unstructured raw data from large, complex datasets and processing it into robust and meaningful audit results through a structured ETL process (Extract, Transform, Load) and statistical audit procedures
• Discussing findings with stakeholders and reporting them to the HIA
• Collaborating on the further development of modern and innovative audit methodologies, including ML, LLM, and AI, to increase audit efficiency and the quality of audit results
• Supporting the Head of Internal Audit in preparing the annual plan and the annual assessment of the risk landscape
• Maintaining relationships with internal stakeholders
• Ad hoc Projects.

Data Scientist, IT Auditor, CISA

Systems Engineer

• Responsible for business engineering within the Avaloq systems
• Working in collaboration with line management to understand business process requirements
• Identify scalable, innovative solutions for the systems
• Development of sustainable integration solutions that automate event-driven, real-time data transfer to third-party systems
• Collaboration on integration projects involving continuous, real-time, bi-directional data exchange between client and server
• Using Kafka to scalably capture, process, store and forward large volumes of real-time data streams
• Testing of optimisations and ensuring the quality of the end-to-end solution from design through to deployment
• Ensuring the continuous updating of the systems

IT Business Engineer – Avaloq Systems

•Independent planning and execution of data-driven audits across the entire group using data analysis, ML and AI-powered audit tools to detect deviations from standards at an early stage and identify risks
•Translating an audit assignment into a data-analytical audit investigation, including IT-based tests, to uncover irregularities, statistical outliers, and systemic anomalies across the Group, thereby replacing random sampling controls with system-based audits
•Preparing unstructured raw data from large, complex datasets and processing it into robust and meaningful audit results through a structured ETL process (Extract, Transform, Load) and statistical audit procedures
•Discussing findings with stakeholders and reporting them to the HIA
•Collaborating on the further development of modern and innovative audit methodologies, including ML, LLM, and AI, to increase audit efficiency and the quality of audit results
•Supporting the Head of Internal Audit in preparing the annual plan and the annual assessment of the risk landscape
•Maintaining relationships with internal stakeholders
•Ad hoc Projects.

IT Auditor, CISA – Data Science

• Independent, risk-based IT auditing and assessment of a modern bank's IT infrastructure across information technology, data protection and information security, with a focus on container technologies, microservices and data analytics, DevOps, automated processes, AI and cloud computing
• Analyze and evaluate IT processes, IT control systems and risks; discuss findings with managers; and advise on process optimization
• Report findings to the Head of Internal Audit and support the preparation of the annual audit plan as well as the development of the audit methodology
• Research new, innovative technologies and provide recommendations for their implementation
• Support enterprise-wide IT programs to promote risk awareness from the Internal Audit perspective.

IT Auditor, CISA

• Independently plan audits, defining the primary audit objectives
• Execute audits and document findings in accordance with audit standards and internal audit methodology within the allocated timeline and budget
• Analyze findings, including assessing their severity and the associated risks
• Draft the audit report with concise, accurate descriptions of deficiencies
• Present results to the Head of Internal Audit or the Audit Committee
• Follow up on and monitor recommended improvements until issues are resolved
• Support the Head of Internal Audit in developing the annual plan based on the assessment of the risk landscape
• Contribute to optimizing the audit methodology and engage in professional exchanges with audit colleagues to promote an audit culture
• Monitor regulatory changes and internal developments within the bank

Group Internal Auditor

• Überwachung, Steuerung und fristgerechte Reporting von Investmentfonds
• Risikoorientierte Sicherstellung der Fondsstrukturen
• Überwachung der Liquiditätssteuerung und Cashflows
• Validierung des Nettoinventarwerts in Zusammenarbeit mit externen Dienstleistern
• Erstellung der Quartals- und Jahresberichte für interne und externe Stakeholder
• Unterstützung der Fachteams bei Fragen zur Rechnungslegung
• Mitwirkung an Projekten zur Optimierung von Koordinierungsprozessen

Controller, Reporting Processes, Investmentfonds

• Ensure U.S. tax compliance for the management of private equity funds, taking into account risk, operational, and tax considerations
• Continuously analyze U.S. tax legislation and assess its impact on portfolio investments and investors
• Review distribution provisions in fund agreements and determine distribution allocations for investors
• Analyze international tax rules for PFICs and CFCs and oversee U.S. tax reporting obligations (Forms 926, 8865, 8621, 5471, etc.)
• Advise on characterization of debt and equity, unrelated business taxable income (UBTI) for tax-exempt clients, and other tax matters relevant to private equity funds
• Evaluate clients' investments for U.S. tax implications
• Provide investment-related advice on the selection of U.S. tax structures
• Act as a single point of contact for tax-related queries from internal and external stakeholders
• Monitor guidance and updates from U.S. tax authorities (including developments under the IRA)
• Work with IT to implement regulatory changes into tools, processes, and systems
• Develop and deliver training to explain U.S. tax concepts relevant to investment practice
• Participate in global tax projects.