This role is great opportunity to develop your analytical skills and to get wide KYC knowledge from your colleagues and stakeholders from all over the world.

As a KYC Operations Analyst within our global team, you will have the opportunity to develop your analytical skills and gain extensive knowledge in KYC from colleagues and stakeholders worldwide. You will be responsible for ensuring all KYC and AML policies are adhered to, assisting client-facing teams to ensure all client KYC records are compliant with regulatory standards, and ensuring high quality and timely completion of all client-level due diligence. You will also review the collection and verification of data to ensure all KYC records are accurate and complete prior to a final review by the client-facing team. This role will require you to stay current with all regulatory changes and requirements around client KYC, Suitability, and Documentation.

Job responsibilities

Demonstrates strong independent responsibility and extensive knowledge in working with international Anti Money Laundering compliance-related issues Identifies and assesses relevancy of public records, as it relates to customer information Possesses an in-depth understanding of AML typologies inherent in individual clients and large multinational corporations  Conducts a thorough investigation to establish the presence of AML typologies through an extensive review of transactions, determines any correlations or anomalies in the data based on reasonable expectations and prior experience and ascertains if activity between originators and beneficiaries have valid economic purpose based on their investigation and findings Makes a judgment on the risk, based on all findings Independently produces complete and accurate reports of their investigations, findings, decisions and recommendations for use by line of business and KYC Officers Proactively identifies opportunities to refine a process and increase operational efficiencies

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Educated to Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree level Knowledge of KYC is essential with at least 3 years experience (Audit, Control, Risk, AML  and Research may also be areas of experience) Knowledge of BSA/AML, and other AML regulatory policies, with a strong understanding of AML typologies, geography, products, customer type and expected type of activity in order to effectively identify risk and unusual activity Proficiency in investigative techniques and pattern recognition and previous success in complex analysis and investigation with unstructured data populations Understanding of the banking industry, especially correspondent banking Exceptional research and analytical skills with the ability to analyze large amounts of data; decipher higher risk attributes (transactional, geographical, product, customer type, etc) and to identify trends and potential high-risk activity, and to document conclusions appropriately

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

Previous exposure to project management & process improvement techniques  European languages – Spanish, French, German, Italian – highly desirable