Job Description
Are you interested in developing news skills in an inclusive and fast growing team?
As a KYC Middle Office Associate within our Front Office team, you will serve as the primary contact and expert on onboarding new customers, handling additional business requests, and renewing existing customer KYC records. Your role will involve facilitating KYC execution across all teams, including new business and renewals, as well as remediation activities. You will establish strong relationships with both our internal and external customers, ensuring that the KYC component of the client onboarding process is exceptional, efficient, and world-class.
Job responsibilities
- Manages the KYC book of work for New Business/Renewals for the designated Front Office sub-LOB
- Prioritises active requests, provides status updates of key onboardings managing the end to end process
- Builds and develops strong partnerships, identifies challenges and eliminates roadblocks with all internal partners
- Works with the Front Office teams, directing clients as required, to obtain all necessary supporting evidence to fulfil KYC due diligence
- Ensures all information to and from our Clients is accurate, complete and compliant with AML, Local and Corporate Due Diligence requirements
- Coordinates case prioritization, capacity planning, and assignment with our Global Maker teams and QC
- Stays up to date of any changes to processes and procedures, regulatory change and ensures impacts are communicated to our business partners
- Manages personal workload and priorities ensuring timely escalation of key risks/issues to management
- Identifies and executes process improvements, provides guidance and support on key process and technology initiatives to the business
- Works as a role model to peers and drives training and sharing of good practices
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Strong written and oral communication skills with experience of conflict resolution
- Resilient interpersonal skills, ability to partner with internal stakeholders, influencing and negotiating effectively with business partners and senior managers
- Client focused whist 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
- Working knowledge of KYC/Compliance/AML standards
- Sound understanding of the Financial Industry
- Knowledge of multiple client types (i.e. Corporates, Non-Banking Financial Institutions, Banks, Foreign Correspondent Banks, Non-Operating/Asset Holding Companies, Governments, Organizations, Publicly Traded Companies, Small and Large Privately Held Operating Companies)
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
J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.
