- Job ID: 900460
- 7 - 10 Years
- 2 Openings
- Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Kolkata

Role description

Team Leadership & Oversight

- Lead and manage the AML/KYC team responsible for investor account opening, periodic refresh, and account maintenance reviews.
- Manage a team of approximately 10–20 AML/KYC analysts and senior analysts, with responsibility for work allocation, capacity planning, quality, performance, and development.
- Allocate work, monitor productivity and quality, and ensure assessments are completed within established service-level timelines.
- Coach and mentor team members, support performance management, and promote a collaborative and compliance-focused culture.

Documentation & Compliance Management

- Oversee the tracking and resolution of pending AML/KYC documentation for investor accounts, fund promoters, and complex legal entities.
- Review escalated files and support the team in identifying appropriate documentary evidence, ownership information, risk factors, and due diligence requirements.
- Ensure documentation is complete, current, appropriately approved, and maintained in accordance with regulatory, internal, and client-specific standards.

Query & Stakeholder Management

- Supervise the resolution of AML/KYC inquiries from clients, investors, fund administrators, and internal stakeholders.
- Ensure responses are timely, accurate, well documented, and aligned with compliance requirements and agreed operating procedures.
- Act as the primary escalation point for operational issues and coordinate with compliance, quality, and client teams to achieve timely resolution.

Regulatory Compliance & Audit Support

- Ensure team procedures remain aligned with applicable AML/KYC regulations, financial crime prevention policies, internal standards, and client-specific requirements.
- Lead preparation for internal reviews, client reviews,



and regulatory or external audits, including collation of evidence and remediation tracking.
- Monitor exceptions, quality findings, and control gaps, and ensure corrective actions are implemented and closed within agreed timeframes.

Reporting & Analysis

- Prepare, review, and maintain accurate AML/KYC operational reports for clients, investors, and internal leadership within required timeframes.
- Monitor volumes, ageing, quality, productivity, and service-level performance, and communicate key risks, trends, and required actions.

Process Excellence & Continuous Improvement

- Drive initiatives to improve workflow efficiency, quality, standardization, and risk management across AML/KYC operations.
- Identify process gaps and recurring issues, perform root-cause analysis, and implement sustainable improvements in coordination with relevant stakeholders.

Skills

- Experience: 7–10 years of relevant experience in AML/KYC, compliance operations, fund administration, transfer agency, or a related financial services environment, including at least 2–3 years of demonstrated team- leadership or people-management experience and responsibilities.
- Qualifications/Certification: Bachelor's degree in business, accounting, finance, law, or an equivalent discipline. ACAMS or an equivalent AML qualification is preferable.
- AML/KYC Knowledge: In-depth understanding of AML regulations, customer and investor due diligence, risk assessment, beneficial ownership,



and financial crime prevention practices.
- Transfer Agency Expertise: Strong understanding of how AML/KYC requirements apply to investor onboarding, periodic refresh, account maintenance, and transfer agency operations.
- Leadership: Proven ability to lead, develop, and motivate operational teams while maintaining quality, productivity, and compliance standards.
- Stakeholder Management: Ability to collaborate effectively with clients, compliance teams, operations, quality assurance, and senior stakeholders.
- Organizational Skills: Highly organized and proactive, with strong time-management skills and the ability to manage competing priorities in a quick-paced environment.

About Grant Thornton INDUS

Grant Thornton INDUS is the global capability center for Grant Thornton US, the U.S. member firm of Grant Thornton International Ltd., a leading global network of independent audit, tax, and advisory firms. Founded in Chicago in 1924, Grant Thornton US is one of the leading accounting and advisory firms in the U.S., bringing together $4B+ in revenue, 56 U.S. offices, and a multi-national platform spanning 20 countries with 25,000 people. It combines deep expertise, advanced technology, and a collaborative mindset to help clients solve complex challenges and grow with confidence. Since 2012, Grant Thornton INDUS has brought together 3,300+ professionals across Tax, Audit, Advisory, Client Services, Innovation, and Enabling Functions to deliver high-impact solutions for Grant Thornton US and its global network.

Recognized as a Great Place To Work® for three consecutive years and among India’s Top 15 Best Workplaces™ in Professional Services 2026, INDUS offers a high-performance culture where people are trusted, supported, and empowered to grow.

📌 Manager AML KYC (Kolkata)
🏢 Grant Thornton
📍 Kolkata