KYC Onboarding Analyst

Ebury; Hong Kong; Hybrid; HKD 420,000 - 620,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive starting salary

Annual discretionary bonus

Dedicated mentorship

Career progression opportunities

Healthcare and social benefits

Central office location

Job summary

Ebury Hong Kong seeks a KYC Onboarding Analyst to drive compliant end-to-end corporate client onboarding focused on CDD and EDD. The role supports the two-level progression, requiring diligence, accuracy, and strong regulatory awareness in a hybrid office setting.

You'll perform risk assessments, maintain quality standards, and collaborate with Front Office and Compliance to ensure a smooth onboarding journey for clients while staying current with evolving financial crime mandates.

Qualifications

• 1-3 years of specialized CDD/EDD experience.
• Strong knowledge of regulatory requirements and financial crime frameworks.
• Ability to interpret ownership structures and onboarding documentation.

Responsibilities

• Execute CDD/EDD for corporate clients with emphasis on accuracy and timeliness.
• Identify and escalate red flags in financial crime risk scenarios.
• Perform Level 2 4-eye checks for quality assurance.
• Collaborate with Front Office and Compliance teams on onboarding.
• Communicate onboarding requirements clearly to clients and internal teams.
• Support training and knowledge transfer within the KYC team.

Skills

CDD/EDD experience

Regulatory compliance

Financial crime risk

Communication skills

Multilingual Cantonese/ Mandarin/ EN

Job description

Ebury helps ambitious businesses unlock global growth, and we take the same approach with our people. We encourage innovation and movement, collaboration and problem-solving, and foster an environment where everyone can feel they belong, are valued, supported and empowered to succeed.

If you’re a collaborator who wants to help transform how businesses operate globally, get in touch - we’d love to discuss how Ebury can accelerate your career so you can shape the future.

KYC Onboarding Analyst

Ebury (Hong Kong) Office - Hybrid: 4 days in the office, 1 day working from home per week

The KYC Onboarding Analyst is a focused specialist role responsible for the compliant and high-quality execution of the end-to-end corporate client onboarding workflow, specifically focused on Customer Due Diligence (CDD) and Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) for standard complexity cases.

This role requires an organised and proactive individual focused on execution and adherence to quality standards, ensuring stringent compliance with internal policies and regulatory requirements. The core mandate is to conduct effective financial crime risk assessment, making informed recommendations to safeguard the company's compliance posture.

This role is structured into two distinct levels to support career progression and specialisedresponsibilities:

• Onboarding Analyst Level 1 (minimum 1 years experience): This is the foundational level focused on the core execution of CDD/EDD workflows for standard complexity cases. Level 1 analysts concentrate on maximising personal productivity, RFT rates, and adherence to all compliance standards.
• Onboarding Analyst Level 2 (minimum 2 years experience): Analysts at this advanced levelconsistently achieve high quality and efficiency targets. In addition to core execution duties,Level 2 analysts are expected to contribute to quality control by performing 4-eye checks(second check) on the work completed by Level 1 analysts and peers, ensuring absoluteadherence to policy and regulatory standards before submission. Advancement is based ondemonstrated expertise, sustained high performance against KPIs, and managementrecommendation.

What you’ll do

Due Diligence Execution, Quality, and Risk Assessment

• Risk-Based Due Diligence: Conduct comprehensive CDD and EDD for corporate clients,including the accurate identification and verification of ownership structures and necessarydocumentation.
• Client Due Diligence Expertise: Ensure all personal due diligence checks comply with internalpolicies and legislative requirements.
• Quality & Right First Time (RFT) Adherence: Strive for high-quality output by ensuring allpersonal case submissions meet compliance standards and are processed Right First Time(RFT), minimising rework.
• Red Flag Identification: Identify and elevate financial crime typologies and red flags relevantto the payments, FX, and institutional space to Senior Analysts or Compliance, as required.
• Quality Control (Level 2): Perform quality assurance/4-eye checks on peer work, verifying theaccuracy and completeness of CDD/EDD files prior to final submission.
• General Project Support: Support ad-hoc tasks within team and FC Ops Pillar and widerbusiness as required.
• Operational Meeting Support: Analysts are expected to provide case-level expertise on anad-hoc basis, stepping in to facilitate discussions or address technical queries as required.
• Front Office Technical Liaison: Act as a point of contact for Front Office queries, providingtechnical solutions for cases and ensuring onboarding requirements are clearly communicated.
• Collaborative Delivery: Support the Manager in training delivery for both the KYC teams and Front Office teams.
• Delegated Training Tasks: Support the delivery of training materials and knowledge transferas a delegated project, ensuring local teams receive consistent guidance.

Client Management and Operational Efficiency

• Client Liaison: Serve as a compliant and professional point of contact for clients, clearly communicating onboarding requirements, and managing follow-up queries.
• Portfolio Management: Efficiently manage a personal queue of onboarding cases, prioritisingtasks and following up with clients and sales representatives to support cycle time reduction.
• Structured Documentation: Ensure every client file is accurately and completely documentedin a structured format, fully compliant with regulatory requirements.
• Onboarding Excellence: Collaborate with internal teams to ensure a smooth and efficientonboarding journey; provide operational oversight and ad-hoc technical support to resolvecase-specific bottlenecks as they arise.

Internal Collaboration and Knowledge Development

• Cross-Functional Communication: Communicate effectively with Front Office teams tobalance commercial needs with regulatory requirements.
• Knowledge Transfer: Proactively participate in training and take ownership of personallearning, staying current with evolving financial crime mandates and internal policy updates.

What you’ll need

• Proven Experience: 1-3 years of specialized experience conducting CDD/EDD with corporateclients, ideally within the financial services/FinTech sector.
• Due Diligence Foundational Knowledge: Strong, foundational knowledge of entity onboardingrequirements and the ability to interpret ownership structures.
• Accountability & Drive: Demonstrable history of personal productivity, ownership, and theability to work effectively and independently within a fast-paced environment.
• Analytical Thinking: Good analytical skills and the ability to follow procedures and applyregulatory or documentation requirements.
• Communication: Strong communication skills (both written and verbal) with demonstrateexperience in direct client contact.
• Fluency in Cantonese, Mandarin and Business-level English

For (Level 2 Progression)

• Quality Control Exposure: Experience in performing quality checks or working directly withaudit/compliance teams.
• Complex Case Exposure: Demonstrable experience working on cases involving complexinternational ownership structures or higher-risk jurisdictions.

Performance Measures (KPIs)

Performance against the following metrics will form the basis of performance reviews:

• Quality: Right First Time (RFT) Rate of personal CDD/EDD submissions.
• Efficiency: Timely completion of assigned tasks and adherence to targeted internal Client.
• Experience Time contribution.
• Productivity: Personal Onboarded Accounts / Time Ratio, reflecting efficient casemanagement.
• Risk: Accuracy and quality of Red Flag Identification and escalation.
• Quality Control (Level 2): Accuracy scores of 4-eye checks performed.

Why Ebury?

• Competitive Starting Salary with an annual discretionary bonusthat truly rewards your performance from day one.
• Dedicated Mentorship: Learn directly from experienced managers who are invested in your success.
• Cutting-Edge Technology: Leverage state-of-the-art tailor made tools and systems that enable you to perform at your best.
• Clear, Accelerated Career Progression: Defined pathways to leadership and specialist roles within Ebury.
• Dynamic & Supportive Culture: Work in a collaborative environment where teamwork and personal growth are prioritized.
• Generous Benefits Package: Access competitive benefits tailored to your location, which typically include health care and social benefits.
• CentralOffice: A fantastic location with excellent transport links.

About us

Ebury delivers sophisticated, integrated solutions — business accounts, hedging, and financing — on a single platform with a seamless workflow. Our success is built on a simple premise and singular purpose: To help businesses operate and scale globally.

Since its founding in 2009, Ebury has always been a fast-growing leader in fintech. Today, we bring together 2000+ Eburians across nearly 70 cities and we’re always looking to add to our team.

At the heart of our offering is a proprietary platform, purpose-built to help businesses seamlessly streamline and manage global cash flow. We focus on continuous product evolution and innovation to build the infrastructure for borderless growth and help our clients scale at every stage.

The opportunities at Ebury are as diverse as our people, ranging from business development to engineering roles across our tech pillars.

We believe in inclusion. We stand against discrimination in all forms and are against the intolerance of differences that makes us a modern and successful organisation. At Ebury, you can be whoever you want to be and still feel a sense of belonging no matter your story.

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