KYC VP – Turkish Onboarding & Risk Champion

Next Frontier Capital; Şile, Fatih; On-site; TRY 800,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Job summary

J.P. Morgan is seeking a KYC Manager (Vice President) to act as SME for onboarding Turkish clients and renewals within Wholesale Payments.

You will lead end-to-end KYC, coordinate with Front Office, and ensure AML/regulatory compliance across Turkish client relationships. The role requires strong English and Turkish, exceptional stakeholder management, and the ability to leverage AI tools for KYC while maintaining end-to-end accountability for control outcomes.

Qualifications

• Strong written and oral communication skills with experience of conflict resolution and risk mitigation.
• Resilient interpersonal skills; ability to partner with internal stakeholders, influence and negotiate effectively with business partners and senior managers.
• Client focused whilst maintaining a strong controls mind-set.
• Proactive and flexible approach to personal workload and wider team targets.
• Effective at managing time appropriately and organising workload for maximum productivity, including disciplined case prioritisation and team assignment.
• Working knowledge of KYC/Compliance/AML standards (significant industry experience required).
• Sound understanding of the Financial Industry.
• Experience using approved AI tools to support KYC casework (document summarisation, key data extraction, drafting narratives), with appropriate human review, and the ability to set team-level guardrails, validate outputs against source documents and escalating exceptions appropriately.
• Proactive in identifying opportunities to use AI to improve quality and cycle times, in partnership with stakeholders, including coaching the team to apply AI safely and consistently while maintaining end-to-end accountability for control outcomes.
• Fluency in English and Turkish

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end KYC for renewals, new business and incremental requests for Turkish clients.
• Lead the team’s work pipeline by prioritising active requests, coordinating assignment and capacity planning, and driving business-forward planning in partnership with global KYC Middle Office teams.
• Partner with the Front Office and, on occasion, directly with clients as required, to obtain all necessary supporting evidence to fulfil KYC due diligence requirements.
• Ensure information to and from clients is accurate, complete and compliant with AML, local and corporate due diligence requirements.
• Liaise regularly with the business to conduct workload planning, review the status of key renewals and prioritise open requests, providing structured status updates on progress and expected turnaround.
• Interact with key stakeholders such as Front Office, Compliance and Quality Control to develop strong partnerships, eliminate roadblocks and ensure continuity of information flow across groups, escalating as required to unblock time-critical requests.
• Create quality KYC profiles ensuring accuracy, completeness and validity, incorporating multiple risk factors in compliance with global and local regulatory requirements, and drive consistent quality standards through effective oversight and targeted coaching.
• Manage personal workload and priority items and ensure timely escalation of key risks and issues to management, including pipeline-level risks with clear mitigation actions.
• Stay up to date on changes to processes and procedures, regulatory change, and ensure impacts are identified and communicated to business partners, including controlled remediation for in-progress requests where required.
• Identify and execute process improvements, and provide guidance and support on key process and technology initiatives to the business to improve cycle time, quality and control outcomes.

Skills

Communication

Stakeholder management

KYC/AML knowledge

AI in KYC

English & Turkish

Job description

J.P. Morgan is seeking a KYC Manager (Vice President) to act as SME for onboarding Turkish clients and renewals within Wholesale Payments.

You will lead end-to-end KYC, coordinate with Front Office, and ensure AML/regulatory compliance across Turkish client relationships. The role requires strong English and Turkish, exceptional stakeholder management, and the ability to leverage AI tools for KYC while maintaining end-to-end accountability for control outcomes.