Compliance Specialist

Visa; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services company is seeking a Compliance Operational team member to perform KYC and CDD on new clients, assessing risks against company guidelines. This hybrid role involves attending the Paddington office from Tuesday to Thursday, conducting client reviews, and ensuring smooth onboarding experiences. Ideal candidates have at least 1 year of experience in a finance or compliance field with a strong analytical skill set and a university degree in business or sciences.

Qualifications

• At least 1 year's experience in a finance/compliance field.
• Prior experience in a compliance onboarding function is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Conduct a review of clients applications at the point of onboarding.
• Assess and carry out appropriate customer due diligence (CDD) and know-your-customer (KYC) on new clients.
• Conduct sanction/PEP screening and investigate potential hits.
• Provide good client experience to stakeholders.
• Undertake assigned Compliance project work.

Skills

Customer due diligence (CDD)

Know-your-customer (KYC)

Analytical skills

Good business acumen

Excellent written communication

Team player

Education

University degree in business or sciences

Job description

The role involves being a core part of the compliance operational team at onboarding. It entails performing KYC CDD & EDD on new corporate and individual customers & assessing the risks presented against the Currencycloud risk appetite in each case and will report into the Onboarding Manager. This is a hybrid role with the requirement for you to attend our Paddington office Tuesdays - Thursdays.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Conduct a review of clients applications at the point of onboarding
• Assess and carry out appropriate customer due diligence (CDD) and know-your-customer (KYC) on new clients
• Conduct sanction / PEP screening and investigate potential hits
• Provide good client experience to stakeholders - being part of a smooth customer journey
• Undertake assigned Compliance project work
• Proactively escalates urgent cases to management for further review
• Good business acumen - leveraging this to weigh up risks presented in each case
• Highly analytical - using presented evidence / data to form an assessment on the risk
• Excellent written communication - leveraging this to work with stakeholders and problem solve each case to deliver correct outcomes
• Team player who enjoys learning new things sharing knowledge and working with others to form correct outcomes on new applications
• Being accountable and taking ownership of client applications from start to finish

Qualifications

• At least 1 years experience in a finance / compliance field
• University degree in business or sciences / equivalent
• Prior experience in a compliance onboarding function is preferred

Additional Information

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin sexual orientation gender identity disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

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