At OakNorth, we're on a mission to empower ambitious businesses and the communities they serve. Since 2015, we've lent over $21 billion across the UK and US, helped create more than 58,000 new homes and 36,000 new jobs, and supported hundreds of thousands of personal savers — all while driving economic growth in the markets we serve.
We're seeking a future team member to join our Client Onboarding function! You'll be responsible for overseeing the India Lending CDD team and conducting due diligence research and administrative duties for our new and existing clients whilst adhering to regulatory requirements. Have excellent of UK and US AML KYC / CDD / EDD requirements, strong risk acumen and the ability to solve problems and work independently
Responsibilities
- Line manages, train and mentor the India CDD Team and ensuring their deliverables are met on time.
- Produce and Monitor KPIs and KRI to ensure optimal performance of the India based CDD Team.
- Read, understand and ensure the India team compliance with relevant UK and US AML Policies and Sops.
- Support the UK and US Client Onboarding (Ongoing monitoring team) on ad hoc tasks.
- Actively carrying out onboarding and ongoing monitoring lending cases end to end
- Perform identification checks (i.e. Experian, GBG, MiTek) analyse and validate the results.
- Conduct screening of PEPSs, Sanctions & Adverse Media and escalate if there are true hits & provide constructive feedback on all screening when reviewing.
- Processing of emails (instructions/queries).
- Leads and manage the preparation of the CRS/FATCA annual reports.
- Be a subject matter expert and maintain knowledge, and expertise.
- Providing advisory support to the other members of the India CDD Team
- Supporting the UK team in transformational change initiatives, delivering against our strategic plan.
- Identify areas for improving processes to deliver improved efficiency.
Technical Skill
- Ability to understand financial statements.
- Experience working in the financial service sector (ideally in commercial lending or banking) for a minimum of 7 years experience.
- Excellent understanding and experience of AML/KYC, CDD/EDD.
- Should be able to calculate the percentage of ownership and determine the beneficial owner(s) calculation.
- Ability to independently investigate/analyse information and draw/present conclusions.
- A strong understanding of financial crime prevention systems.
- Extensive technical knowledge of financial crime prevention.
Nice to haves:
- Experience with Fraud and AML Transaction Monitoring alert clearing.
- Advanced excel knowledge and experience working with large sets of data.
- Working knowledge of AEOI & FSCS requirements.
- Experience working with private equity / real estate investment vehicles.
- ICA & ACAMS Qualifications.
- Experience using CIFAS.
