Senior Kyc Analyst - Kyc Managed Service

Capitex; Greater London; On-site; GBP 111,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Capitex, a specialist financial crime compliance firm, is recruiting Senior KYC Analysts for a Know Your Assets service supporting a global asset manager's alternative investments. You will handle enhanced due diligence on complex counterparties and ownership structures.

The role is judgement-led, requiring quality risk assessments, open-source research, and clear written reasoning. You will present findings to investment desks and risk functions, with ongoing complex casework across

Qualifications

• Solid experience in KYC, KYB, KYA or financial crime due diligence, including enhanced due diligence on complex cases.
• Ability to write a risk assessment with clear conclusions and justification.
• Strong understanding of ownership and control structures, source of funds and sanction/PEP risk.

Responsibilities

• Complete enhanced due diligence on complex counterparties, deals and investment structures.
• Unpick ownership and control chains, including nominee, trust and multi-jurisdictional arrangements.
• Resolve sanctions, PEP and adverse media exposure, and determine whether risk is mitigated or must be escalated.
• Produce written risk assessments with clear reasoning, identified risks and proposed mitigants.
• Present findings and recommendations to the Pod Lead, QC and client risk functions as required.
• Liaise with investment desks to obtain documentation and clarify structures.
• Support and check the work of junior analysts, acting as a technical reference.
• Maintain audit trails and meet SLA on complex cases.

Skills

KYC/KYB/KYA

Risk assessment writing

Ownership chain analysis

OSINT/open source research

Written and verbal communication

Red flag judgment

Tools

World-Check

LexisNexis

Job description

Capitex is a specialist financial crime compliance firm. We work only in financial crime - AML, KYC, KYB, sanctions, transaction monitoring and fraud - and we resource managed services and remediation programmes across London, Dubai and New York.

We are recruiting Senior KYC Analysts for a Know Your Assets managed service supporting a global asset manager's alternative investments business. Know Your Assets is the financial crime process used to assess the risk attached to a fund's underlying investments: the holding itself, its ownership and control structure, and the counterparties involved, including sanctions, PEP and adverse media exposure.

This is the enhanced due diligence tier. You will handle the complex end of the caseload - layered and opaque ownership structures, high-risk jurisdictions and sectors, PEP and adverse media exposure that needs resolving rather than just recording. The work is judgement-led: we are looking for people who identify the red flags a checklist does not anticipate, articulate the risk clearly in writing, and can stand behind that assessment with the business.

Responsibilities

• Complete enhanced due diligence on complex counterparties, deals and investment structures
• Unpick ownership and control chains, including nominee, trust and multi-jurisdictional arrangements
• Resolve sanctions, PEP and adverse media exposure, and determine whether risk is mitigated or must be escalated
• Produce written risk assessments with clear reasoning, identified risks and proposed mitigants
• Present findings and recommendations to the Pod Lead, QC and, where required, client risk functions
• Liaise directly with investment desks to obtain documentation and clarify structures
• Support and check the work of junior analysts, and act as a technical point of reference
• Maintain complete audit trails and meet SLA on complex cases

Requirements

Essential

• Solid experience in KYC, KYB, KYA or financial crime due diligence, including enhanced due diligence on complex cases
• Demonstrable ability to write a risk assessment that reaches a conclusion and justifies it
• Strong understanding of ownership and control structures, source of funds and wealth, sanctions and PEP risk
• Confident conducting open source research and resolving ambiguous or conflicting findings
• Good judgement on what constitutes a genuine red flag and what does not
• Strong written and verbal communication

Desirable

• Experience in asset management, private equity, real estate, infrastructure or private debt
• Experience with complex or high-risk portfolios, including high-risk jurisdictions and sectors
• Familiarity with the Money Laundering Regulations and FCA expectations
• Experience with World-Check, LexisNexis or comparable screening tools

Benefits

• Long-term engagement on a multi-year programme with a global asset manager
• Competitive day rate, confirmed at offer stage
• Genuinely complex casework rather than high-volume checklist processing
• Direct exposure to investment desks and client risk functions
• Ongoing pipeline of financial crime work through Capitex on completion