KYC Specialist

JPMorganChase; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global financial services firm is seeking a KYC Specialist in Edinburgh. The role involves reviewing KYC profiles, managing client relationships, and ensuring adherence to regulations. The ideal candidate should have experience in banking and anti-money laundering, strong analytical skills, and the ability to make independent decisions in a fast-paced environment. Join a diverse and inclusive team committed to delivering exceptional client services.

Qualifications

• Experience in KYC and understanding of regulatory requirements.
• Ability to maintain relationships with clients and manage workloads.
• Demonstrates independent decision-making capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Perform end-to-end review of KYC profiles.
• Maintain a global quality pass rate for KYC records.
• Manage personal workload and escalate key risks.

Skills

Banking/Financial experience

KYC role experience

Anti-Money Laundering knowledge

Analytical skills

Problem-solving ability

Decision-making ability

Digital savviness

Job description

Job Description

Do you want to work in a dynamic, fast paced, customer and colleague centric environment? Are you customer obsessed and have a desire to support customers with their financial needs? Are you passionate about self-development and learning new skills? Do you have the drive and enthusiasm to communicate with our customers using various channels? Are you focused on getting it right first time for customers? Can you think ‘outside of the box’ and enjoy problem resolution? If you’ve answered yes to the above and want a new challenge then we want you!

KYC Specialist Responsibilities

• Perform end to end review of KYC profiles, ensuring that the KYC records adhere to local and firmwide for KYC and regulatory requirements
• Maintain a globally agreed quality pass rate for records sampled by the Quality Assurance Team
• Manage personal workload and priority items, and ensure timely escalation of key risks/issues to management
• Perform client outreach and manage the relationship with the clients
• Keep informed of and apply any changes to processes, procedures and regulatory change
• Develop strong partnerships with key stakeholders, proactively build and maintain relationships across the firm
• Identify and execute process improvements and provide Subject Matter Expert support on key process and technology initiatives

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities & Skills

• Banking/Financial experience - UK Banking Risk/Fraud experience
• Experience in a KYC role - Analyse transaction activity against KYC standards
• Experience with Anti-Money Laundering
• Utilise all available tools to verify consumer purpose and legitimacy
• Accurately document the research and analysis conclusion to KYC standards
• Use own judgement – knowing when to escape customers who do not meet KYC standards
• Ability to research and understand various customer documentation & consumer transactions using various customer platforms
• Demonstrates ability to identify, analyse, plan, prioritise, and problem solve, providing and executing viable solutions
• Demonstrate an Independent decision-making ability, and strong analytical skills
• Ability to identify risk and provide process improvement suggestions
• Ability to manage a heavy workload in various stages of completion with minimal supervision
• Digitally Savvy across different medians

About Us

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.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

About The Team

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.

Operations teams develop and manage innovative, secure service solutions to meet clients’ needs globally. Developing and using the latest technology, teams work to deliver industry-leading capabilities to our clients and customers, making it easy and convenient to do business with the firm. Teams also drive growth by refining technology-driven customer and client experiences that put users first, providing an unparalleled experience.