Job Description

Join our KYC Operations Team as a Analyst, where you’ll help safeguard the firm by ensuring client KYC records are accurate, complete, and fully aligned with evolving regulatory requirements. You’ll lead in-depth investigative reviews of historical transactions and adverse media, applying strong AML typology knowledge and sound judgment to identify risk, document findings, and drive high-quality outcomes for client-facing and KYC stakeholders.

As a KYC Operations Senior Analyst within the KYC Operations Team, you will be responsible for producing a critical, detailed, in-depth investigative review of historical transaction activity and/or negative media reviews on clients in line with firm policy and regulatory expectations..

Job responsibilities

• Demonstrate strong independent responsibility and extensive knowledge in working with international AML compliance-related issues
• Demonstrate the ability to identify & deem relevancy of public records, as it relates to customer information
• Possess an in-depth understanding of AML typologies inherent in individual clients and large multinational corporations and exercising sound judgment and observe the highest degree of confidentiality in handling the information received while discharging their responsibilities
• Conduct a thorough investigation to establish the presence of AML typologies through an extensive review of transactions, determine any correlations or anomalies in the data based on reasonable expectations and prior experience and ascertain if activity between originators and beneficiaries have valid economic purpose based on their investigation & findings
• Make a judgment on the risk, based on all findings. Determine if any unusual or high risk activity/information needs to be further investigated
• Independently produce complete and accurate reports of their investigations, findings, decisions, quality checks and recommendations for use by LOB and KYC Officers

• Proactively identify opportunities to refine a process and increase operational efficiencies together with co-maintaining ownership of the process with inclusion to procedural changes, managing relationships with stakeholders and actively

  Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Educated to Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree level.
• Knowledge of KYC/AML is essential with at least 3 years’ experience (Audit, Control, Risk, and Research may also be areas of experience)
• Knowledge of BSA/AML, and other AML regulatory policies, with a strong understanding of financial industry, AML typologies, geography, products, customer types including correspondent banks and expected type of activity in order to effectively identify risk and unusual activity
• Exceptional research and analytical skills with the ability to analyse large amount of unstructured data populations; decipher higher risk attributes (transactional, geographical, product, customer type, etc) and to identify trends and potential high-risk activity, and to document conclusions appropriately including complex investigations
• Client focused with strong customer service skills (e.g. oral and written communication skills)
• Ability to multi-task and meet deadlines against a high volume work schedule including close cooperation with other QC members to exchange knowledge and participate in multiple platforms of feedback channels

• Possess strong computer skills: Microsoft Office Suite including Excel, Word and PowerPoint

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Knowledge of European languages – Spanish, French, German Portuguese, Italian, Russian – as well as Arabic
• Exposure to project management & process improvement techniques will be an added advantage
• Must be able to work and contribute effectively in stressful situation and drives results through leadership, people, communication and influence
• Ability to work both independently and as a team in a fast paced production environment

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.