KYC Onboarding Contractor

We are looking for a KYC Investigation and Onboarding Contractor for an initially 6-month contract.

The person in this role will have specific responsibility for performing KYC onboarding, maintenance, and off-boarding activities for all group entities.

Duties and Responsibilities include:

1. Undertake and perform KYC Due Diligence on clients and counterparties as part of the team’s case queues (including on projects and complex clients) in line with the company’s policies and procedures in compliance with applicable sanctions and AML laws and applicable regulations.
2. Keep and maintain an audit trail of actions undertaken.
3. Assist in the execution of ad-hoc projects as required.
4. Escalate issues in a timely manner to operational management and process owners.
5. Participate in all mandatory online or classroom trainings on departmental or individual level.
6. Maintain and keep up to date all relevant KYC data and records held within internal document repositories, databases/systems, progress trackers etc used by the KYC team, ensuring appropriate audit trail is captured.
7. Perform periodic reviews for clients by confirming KYC data requirements, collecting relevant KYC.
8. Assist to identify and analyse AML and sanctions risks associated with onboarding, maintenance, and off-boarding of clients, paying special attention to any potential red flags, heightened risks, and operational issues which should be escalated to the Head of Client Onboarding, Compliance and Group General Counsel as appropriate.
9. Work effectively with key internal stakeholders using strong influencing skills to ensure the mutually satisfactory resolution of key issues and that the respective responsibilities are understood, agreed, and escalated where required.
10. Assist in maintaining all relevant KYC policies, procedures, and process documents, training materials, handbooks, and other literature, ensuring continuous improvement and standardization.
11. Assist to identify areas for process improvement, efficiency enhancement, and automation to optimize KYC operations and efforts to deliver better outcomes.

Requirements:

Ideally, you will have at least 3+ years of previous relevant work experience (AML/KYC/compliance related) within the corporate financial services industry, a regulated services industry, or KYC departments of trading/broking/shipping companies.

Skills:

• Experience with EMEA jurisdictional KYC/AML regulations.
• Previous usage of business tools for risk management - with a focus on anti-money laundering.
• Flexible and self-motivated, with the ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Ability to effectively execute ideas and results to diverse business and technical audiences.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
• Professional Compliance Qualification – desirable but not essential.
• Advanced Microsoft Outlook/Word/Excel skills.

Location: London
Salary: £45,000 - £55,000 per annum
Type: Contract
Date: 30 Oct 2023
Email: duncan@taylorjamesresourcing.com
Ref: db4861345