KYC Officer

Team presentation and main goal:

Know Your Client (KYC) are standards used in the investment, financial and insurance services industry to verify customers and know their risk and financial profiles.

KYC Analyst primary focus is to gather client data and documentation to build a KYC file to support the due diligence assessment of prospective and existing clients.

KYC analyst will be responsible for the onboarding and periodic review of clients in a timely manner, in line with business strategy and needs, and for ensuring consistent application of local and global KYC policies through the lifecycle of clients.

Main tasks and goals:

• Conducts initial checks against internal data/database to determine KYC information held internally;
• Analyze and determine account documentation required based upon counterparty type and products traded as well as approving adequacy of account documentation and financial information received from prospective customers and performs Gap Analysis with existing documents;
• Liaises internally with relevant stakeholders for list of required KYC and Regulatory documents, determines required documents for KYC;
• Perform detailed Sanctions Screening and PEP reviews;
• Organize documents collected and extracts relevant data to support the KYC process. Also, ensures and validate that collected documents are consistent, valid, and adequate with internal procedures/guidelines, while ensuring due diligences regarding local requirements are properly performed;
• Enter or update systems with data related to scoring grid, based on the documentary analysis performed;
• Escalates risks and issues when necessary to other internal actors to deal with higher risk elements/situations;
• Document upload and data capture;
• Interact with the Compliance department to follow internal policies and procedures as well as adapting to changes in procedure or regulatory requirements as communicated;
• Ensure the production, analysis, and communication of the management indicators - when entering a relationship with new prospects/customers or third parties;
• Support the implementation of new processes by ensuring their proper application;
• Assist the department manager in various tasks related to, but not limited to, working with, and rolling out to the group the implementation of new controls and efficiencies where needed.

Additional information:

• Ability to manage stress and work in a constantly evolving regulatory landscape;
• Strong problem solving, analytical and communication skills;
• Experience to work with global stakeholders namely APAC, AMER, EMEA (one or more).

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Management/Economics/Finance/Legal or related ae;
• KYC/Vetting related functions (1-2 years);
• U.S. AML/KYC rules and best practices (notions);
• Microsoft office (Excel Power Pivot);
• Fluency in English and French level is a plus.

Soft Skills:

• Stress and work management;
• Analytical and communication skills;
• Work ethic;
• Interpersonal communication and emotional intelligence;
• Autonomy.

We will only consider English CV's