KYC Onboarding Analyst

Marex Spectron; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Graduate Trainee for KYC Onboarding. This role offers a unique opportunity to engage with financial services through a comprehensive graduate program. You'll be involved in critical client onboarding processes, ensuring compliance with regulations while developing skills in a fast-paced environment. The program fosters professional growth through workshops and networking with senior leaders, making it ideal for ambitious individuals eager to build a career in finance. Join a company that values integrity, collaboration, and the development of its people, and take the first step in your professional journey.

Qualifications

• Experience in client onboarding and KYC processes is essential.
• Strong analytical and communication skills are required.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with KYC and AML checks for new customers.
• Maintain accurate records and update customer data daily.

Skills

Client onboarding

KYC

Risk assessment

Analytical skills

Verbal communication

Written communication

Team collaboration

Resilience

Networking

Strategic collaboration

Tools

PeopleSoft

Job description

Graduate Trainee, KYC Onboarding Analyst

Marex Group plc (NASDAQ: MRX) is a diversified global financial services platform providing essential liquidity, market access and infrastructure services to clients across energy, commodities and financial markets. The group provides comprehensive breadth and depth of coverage across four core services: clearing, agency and execution, market making, and hedging and investment solutions. It has a leading franchise in many major metals, energy and agricultural products, with access to 60 exchanges. The group provides access to the world’s major commodity markets, covering a broad range of clients that include some of the largest commodity producers, consumers and traders, banks, hedge funds and asset managers. With more than 40 offices worldwide, the group has over 2,400 employees across Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. For more information visit www.marex.com.

Marex Graduate Programme

Embark on a transformative journey with Marex's Full-Time Graduate Programme - an experience tailored to empower and support Analysts. Dive into the 'Backpack to Briefcase' bootcamp, unveiling the intricacies of financial services, Marex's purpose, and strategic priorities. Join your team post-bootcamp, fostering connections through continuous training.

Learn, grow, and expand your network through a diverse array of sessions fast-tracking your understanding of Marex and the industry. Engage in workshops covering behavioural, cognitive skills, technical understanding, and business awareness, nurturing your professional development.

Throughout the programme, seize the opportunity to attend informal insight events and a lunch and learn series hosted by senior Marex Leaders. Gain exposure, ask questions, and gain real insights into the business from influential figures.

From day one, connect with a network of fellow graduates. Attend training and events together, creating bonds with those sharing your journey. Join Marex, where your passions align with purpose, and your strengths converge with our values.

Role Summary

To ensure that customers across business divisions are on-boarded efficiently and in accordance with Group policies and procedures.

Overall Responsibilities

• Ensure that appropriate CDD / KYC and AML checks are carried out on all new customers in accordance with local regulatory requirements and Group standards and procedures.
• Ensure that appropriate client documentation is issued to all new customers and in accordance with local regulatory and any exchange requirements.
• Ensure that appropriate customer categorisations are carried out in accordance with local regulatory requirements.
• Ensure daily targets set by the Onboarding Manager are met.
• Accurately update the customer pipeline on a daily basis.
• Ensure that client and static data is accurately input and maintained into the Client Data Base [PeopleSoft].
• Ensure that complete records of all customer documentation are maintained.
• Ensure that the Front-Office, Co-Ordination Team and Quality Control Teams are advised of case progress.
• Assist on any other ad-hoc reviews/projects/audits that the Onboarding department is required to carry out.
• Efficiently deal with general day-to-day ad-hoc queries.
• Work closely with the Financial Crime team.
• Keep management timely informed of issues/developments.

Standard Responsibilities

• Ensuring compliance with the company’s regulatory requirements under the FCA.
• Adhere to the operational risk framework for your role ensuring that all regulatory or company determined parameters are complied with.
• Role model for demonstrating highest level standards of integrity and conduct and reflecting Company Values.
• At all times complying with the FCA’s Code of Conduct and Marex’s Code of Conduct.
• To ensure that you are fully aware of and adhere to internal policies that relate to you, your role or any other activities for which you have any level of responsibility.
• To report any breaches of policy to Compliance and/or your supervisor as required.
• To escalate risk events immediately.
• To provide input to risk management processes, as required.

The Company may require you to carry out other duties from time to time.

Skills and Experience

• Experience in client onboarding, KYC and risk assessment of clients.
• Solid understanding of client categorisation.
• Worked in support of trading desks.
• Analytical skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• A collaborative team player, approachable, self-efficient and influences a positive work environment.
• Resilient in a challenging, fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work within a fast-paced and high-volume environment.
• Excels at building relationships, networking and influencing others.
• Strategic collaborator with insight and agility, able to anticipate future challenges, ensuring operational effectiveness.

Company Values

• Respect - Clients are at the heart of our business, with superior execution and superb client service the foundation of the firm. We respect our clients and always treat them fairly.
• Integrity - Doing business the right way is the only way. We hold ourselves to a high ethical standard in everything we do – our clients expect this and we demand it of ourselves.
• Collaborative - We work in teams - open and direct communication and the willingness to work hard and collaboratively are the basis for effective teamwork. Working well with others is necessary for us to succeed at what we do.
• Developing our People - Our people are the basis of our competitive advantage. We look to “grow our own” and make Marex Spectron the place ambitious, hardworking, talented people choose to build their careers.
• Adaptable and Nimble - Our size and flexibility is an advantage. We are big enough to support our client’s various needs, and adaptable and nimble enough to respond quickly to changing conditions or requirements. A non-bureaucratic, but well controlled environment fosters initiative as well as employee satisfaction.

Conduct Rules

You must:

• Act with integrity
• Act with due skill, care and diligence
• Be open and cooperative with the FCA, the PRA and other regulators
• Pay due regard to the interests of customers and treat them fairly
• Observe proper standard of market conduct

Marex is fully committed to the elimination of unlawful or unfair discrimination and values the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the company.