You will drive continuous improvement by enhancing procedures, controls, and operational efficiency in partnership with Compliance and business stakeholders.
As a KYC/AML Associate in KYC Team, you will lead day-to-day delivery of onboarding and ongoing KYC activities across jurisdictions. You will combine maker-checker responsibilities with team leadership, ensuring quality, timeliness, and effective escalation management.
Job Responsibilities
- Lead the team managing customer onboarding and ongoing KYC maintenance under AML requirements.
- Oversee risk-based due diligence decisions aligned to client type, location, and activity.
- Perform maker-checker reviews and quality checks to ensure KYC record accuracy and completeness.
- Coordinate client and related-party screening and the resolution of screening alerts.
- Escalate exceptions, issues, and high-risk items to appropriate stakeholders and governance forums.
- Partner with Global Financial Crime Compliance, Relationship Managers, and senior management on client acceptance decisions.
- Maintain and improve procedures, controls, and systems to meet regulatory and internal standards.
- Identify process gaps and implement enhancements to improve quality, cycle times, and throughput.
- Ensure timely responses to stakeholder queries and completion of daily assigned workloads.
- Support prioritization and coach team members through complex cases and competing deadlines.
- Contribute to projects, training, and ongoing education on financial crime-related topics.
Required qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Demonstrate robust working knowledge of AML laws, regulations, and KYC/CDD/EDD standards.
- Execute high-quality KYC maker-checker reviews with strong attention to detail.
- Operate confidently within screening and transaction monitoring processes and concepts.
- Communicate clearly with stakeholders across Compliance, Client Service, and front office partners.
- Lead day-to-day workload ma