Samuel Kessler

Partner / Gesellschafter, Head Acquisition and Marketing, GoCompliant AG
Bern, Switzerland

Fähigkeiten und Kenntnisse

Broad Skills & Experience in Project Management
Internal/ Supervisory Control Systems
Management of international initiatives
Risk & Compliance Frameworks
Control Methodologies and Governance Models. Inter
FATCA
Projektplanung
Personalmanagement
Englische Sprache
Betriebswirtschaft
Master of Business Administration
Risikomanagement
Prozessanalyse
Changemanagement
MS Office

Werdegang

Berufserfahrung von Samuel Kessler

  • Current 1 year and 10 months, since Aug 2024

    Head Acquisition and Marketing

    GoCompliant AG

  • Current 7 years and 5 months, since Jan 2019

    Head of Policy, Risk & Control Switzerland, UK and EMEA

    Credit Suisse

    - Provision of Risk Advice and Risk Assessments (1LoD) - Responsible for annual HR 2LoD process - Member of COVID crisis core team Switzerland - Facilitation of HR’s External Disclosure Committee - Facilitation of Audit Activity - Implementation and Operation of ERCF, Supervisory Controls and SOX 404 frameworks - Representation of HR Switzerland and EMEA in Crisis Organization Member of Integration Team / UBS Acquisition

  • 3 years and 9 months, Apr 2015 - Dec 2018

    Head HR Policy, Risk & Control

    Credit Suisse

    Head HR Policy in Switzerland and global Head Risk & Control for the HR Division division manages a team and acts as the central authority for HR policies and compliance in Switzerland. He is also the regional subject matter expert for HR administrative processes, and oversees the Risk & Control governance and framework for the HR division globally.

  • 10 months, Jun 2014 - Mar 2015

    Taskforce Regulatory Investigations

    Credit Suisse

    Senior Consultant in the U.S. Tax Matter resolution team within General Counsel. Various responsibilities related to implementation of undertakings arising out of the settlement with U.S. authorities, including facilitation and point of contact for external monitor.

  • 1 year and 11 months, Jul 2012 - May 2014

    Head Global Programs & Systems (General Counsel COO)

    Credit Suisse

    Global initiatives include: - Supervisory Control Platform (Application & Governance) - Collation of Operational Losses - Tracking and Reporting of Legal Cases/ Compliance Issues/ Customer Complaints - Electronic Data and Matter Management incl. Archiving - Tracking of Implementation of Audit and Regulatory Findings - Central Handling of OTC Agreements - Consolidation of Transaction and Position Data for Trade Surveillance/ Personal Account Trading/ PLM/ - Regulatory Security Journal

  • 3 years and 4 months, Mar 2009 - Jun 2012

    Head Global Control & Reporting Framework (General Counsel)

    Credit Suisse

    - Roll-out of Supervisory Control Framework - Management and operation of Integrity Hotline CH/ Europe - Project Owner Document and Matter Management

  • 2 years and 2 months, Jan 2007 - Feb 2009

    Global Program Lead - Internal Control Framework

    Credit Suisse

    Development and Roll-out of global platform to manage internal Controls and Issues

  • 4 years and 7 months, Jun 2002 - Dec 2006

    Head Operational Risk Management

    Clariden Bank

    Established Bankwide SOX Compliance Ensure Basle II Operational Risk Process Analysis Revision Internal Control System Incident Management Development and Maintenance of Operational Loss Database

  • 1 year and 2 months, May 2001 - Jun 2002

    Consultant

    Almafin-Jaeger AG

    Consultant Credit Risk Management

  • 3 years and 11 months, Jul 1997 - May 2001

    Project Manager Credit Risk Management

    UBS

    Risk Reporting Analyst Data Warehousing

  • 4 years and 2 months, Jun 1993 - Jul 1997

    Journalist and Administrator

    IDG AG/ Macworld Schweiz

  • 2 years, Oct 1992 - Sep 1994

    Assistant

    ETH Zurich

    Assistant CAD/ Mechanical Engineering

  • 1 year and 1 month, Oct 1991 - Oct 1992

    Junior Developer

    ISU AG

    Software Developer for Time Management Software

Ausbildung von Samuel Kessler

  • 7 months, Jul 1998 - Jan 1999

    MBA Course

    University of Tulsa

  • 1994 - 2000

    Business Administration

    Universität Zürich

    Major: Banking & Finance Minors: Information Technology, Law

  • 1992 - 1994

    Mechanical Engineering

    ETH Zürich

Sprachen

  • German

    C2 (Verhandlungssicher / Muttersprachlich)

  • English

    C1 (Fließend)

  • French

    B1-B2 (Gute Kenntnisse)

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