Know Your Customer - KYC Specialist
Job Description:
We are seeking a highly motivated Know Your Customer (KYC) Specialist to join our dynamic team at a large multinational bank. The KYC Specialist plays a critical role in client onboarding, ensuring regulatory compliance, assessing risks, and maintaining high standards of ethics and conduct within our organization. The successful candidate will have a strong background in KYC policies and procedures, attention to detail, and the ability to work collaboratively with various stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
1. Client Onboarding and Renewal: Perform onboarding and renewal processes for complex institutional clients, including collecting and verifying KYC documentation.
2. Compliance and Risk Assessment: Identify and escalate blockages in the KYC process related to systems, processes, compliance content, etc. Support risk assessments related to due diligence processes, including adverse media, sanctions, PEP links, and nesting scenarios.
3. Documentation Review: Review client documentation to ensure correctness and completeness. Scan, upload, and tag documents according to global documentation standards.
4. Client Communication: Communicate with clients and relationship managers to collect necessary documents and information for KYC reviews.
5. Data Management: Manage and execute the delegated portfolio, including triggers, annual sanctions, updates, and other activities related to KYC.
6. Collaboration: Collaborate with internal teams, including Financial Crime Compliance (FCC), to address complex queries and ensure KYC governance.
7. Regulatory Compliance: Ensure compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines, and the organisation's Code of Conduct.
Qualifications:
- Good background in KYC policies and procedures.
- Working knowledge of KYC for various client segments.
- Knowledge of Financial Crime risk, Anti-Money Laundering (AML), and credit-related risk is an advantage.
- Analytical and inquiring mind.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Detail-oriented and diligent.
- Ability to work effectively within teams.
Benefits:
- 100% remote opportunity
- Competitive salary.
- Advancement opportunities within the organization.
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We are recruiting for a large multinational bank that offers excellent growth opportunities. It is a high-profile team working with strict timelines so we need someone very organized, sincere, and hard-working.
