KYC Analyst (Private Markets)

Steward; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Office in Paddington, London

Mac computers

Job summary

Steward is seeking a hands-on KYC/AML analyst to review investor files and QA outputs, ensuring they meet acceptance criteria. You will work closely with fund managers and clients to navigate complex onboardings, high-risk decisions, and new onboarding workflows. You will collaborate with the Product team, testing features and contributing to development cycles.

This is a hands-on role in a fast-paced startup environment where getting things done and precise writing are valued.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in KYC/AML or investor onboarding.
• Fluency with complex ownership structures and layered entities.
• Hands-on CDD/EDD including UBO identification and screening.
• Knowledge of AML rules and regulatory expectations.

Responsibilities

• Check AI-assisted KYC/KYB outputs against source documents and risk flags.
• Review trusts, funds, and offshore vehicles to identify beneficial owners.
• Assess PEP, sanctions, and adverse media results with AI-backed recommendations.
• Support EDD on high-risk investors including source of wealth/funds.
• Flag issues and collaborate with Product/Engineering to fix them.
• Educate fund managers and admins on file requirements and rationale.
• Participate in periodic reviews and ongoing monitoring.
• Stay updated on global AML and beneficial ownership rules.

Skills

KYC/AML

CDD/EDD

UBO identification

Regulatory knowledge

Analytical writing

Startup experience

AI curiosity

Job description

Steward is fundamentally changing the way that AML/KYC works in private markets. What was once a 3+ month process to close an investor onboarding can now be done in clicks. Steward's AI-first product automates away the numerous email chains, manual document reviews and disconnected systems into one contextualised operating system.

Steward was founded by Arik Oslerne and Moshe Lieberman and was recently backed with a $5M round led by Motive Partners and Outward VC, with participation from Cooley and prominent angels. Our clients include £100bn+ asset managers, global fund administrators, broker dealers and banks.

• Impact the product. The edge cases you find and the ideas you bring will shape what we build.
• Close to the founders. Work hand-in-hand with exceptional, exited founders.
• Inside the AI shift. Leverage AI to change compliance first-hand, not from the sidelines.
• Every case is unique: Trusts, family offices, feeder funds and offshore vehicles.

The role

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to be the steward of our clients. Reviewing and providing quality assurance of investor files, and checking the outputs meet their acceptance criteria.

You will work closely with leading fund managers and other clients to navigate complex onboardings, high risk decisions and mapping out new onboarding workflows.

You will work very closely to the Product team, innovating and testing new features and being part of the development cycle.

This is a hands-on analyst role, for someone who likes getting things done!

What you'll do

• Check AI-assisted KYC and KYB analysis against source documents: ownership, document requirements, screening and risk
• Work through trusts, limited partnerships, foundations, family office vehicles, feeder funds and offshore SPVs to find the beneficial owners and controllers
• Review PEP, sanctions and adverse media results against AI-reviewed recommendations
• Support EDD on higher-risk investors, including source of wealth and source of funds
• Flag errors and edge cases, and work with Product and Engineering to fix them
• Help fund managers and administrators understand what a file needs and why
• Support periodic reviews and ongoing monitoring
• Stay current on global AML, sanctions and beneficial ownership rules

What you bring

• 2+ years in KYC, AML or investor onboarding, ideally at a fund administrator, PE, Regtech or Private Bank
• Real fluency in complex structures, no matter how many layers.
• Hands-on CDD and EDD, including UBO identification and screening review
• Working knowledge of AML rules and regulations
• Healthy scepticism - you back your ideas with evidence
• Clear writing - your rationale would make sense to a client, an MLRO or an auditor
• Curiosity about AI
• Happy in a startup where processes are constantly changing

Nice to have

• Onboarding LPs into closed-ended funds, co-investments or fund launches
• Channel Islands, Luxembourg, Cayman or US experience
• ICA Certificate in AML, CAMS or similar (or working towards one)
• Startup or scale-up experience

What you get

• Learn: Work directly with the CEO & founding team (operator-led, high tempo, high ownership).
• Comp: Competitive base + equity (we want builders, not passengers).
• Office: 5 days in the office in Paddington, London. We believe the best companies are built in the room.
• Access to great tech (AI models) and equipment (Macs)

We welcome applications from everyone and will make reasonable adjustments at any stage. You must have the right to work in the UK.