Asset Management - KYC - Client Onboarding Associate

Role overview

This position sits within the KYC function and supports client onboarding as well as ongoing maintenance activity across multiple jurisdictions. The role combines quality review, operational execution, and team support, with a strong focus on regulatory adherence, timely delivery, and practical escalation handling. You will work to strengthen procedures, controls, and operating efficiency in close partnership with Compliance and business teams.

What you will do

• Guide the team handling customer onboarding and ongoing KYC upkeep in line with AML expectations.
• Review risk-based due diligence decisions according to the client’s profile, geography, and activity.
• Carry out maker-checker validation and quality assurance to confirm KYC records are complete and accurate.
• Manage client and related-party screening, including follow-up and closure of screening alerts.
• Raise exceptions, concerns, and elevated-risk matters to the right stakeholders and governance groups.
• Work with Global Financial Crime Compliance, Relationship Managers, and senior leaders on client acceptance decisions.
• Keep procedures, controls, and systems aligned with internal requirements and regulatory standards.
• Spot process inefficiencies and implement improvements that lift quality, turnaround time, and throughput.
• Respond promptly to stakeholder questions and ensure daily work queues are completed on time.
• Help organize priorities and support teammates dealing with complex matters and tight deadlines.
• Contribute to projects, training initiatives, and continuous learning around financial crime topics.

Required experience and capabilities

• Solid understanding of AML regulations and KYC/CDD/EDD practices.
• Ability to make well-reasoned risk-based due diligence and escalation choices.
• Strong accuracy and discipline in maker-checker KYC review work.
• Comfort working with screening and transaction monitoring concepts and workflows.
• Clear communication skills for coordination with Compliance, Client Service, and front-office partners.
• Capability to manage priorities, workloads, and issue resolution in a fast-moving setting.
• Data-led problem solving and a control-focused mindset for process improvement.

Preferred strengths

• Experience coaching team members, giving feedback, and supporting performance growth.
• Ability to operate across multiple jurisdictions and regional operating differences.
• Familiarity with workflow platforms and case management tools that improve transparency and control.
• Experience creating operating procedures, quality control frameworks, and control-testing routines.
• Skill in influencing senior stakeholders and aligning on risk-related decisions.
• Exposure to change initiatives that improve client experience while strengthening compliance outcomes.
• Awareness of industry developments and emerging financial crime risks affecting KYC programs.

About the employer and team

The organization is a long-established global financial institution providing solutions across investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, payment processing, asset management, and wealth management. The wider Asset & Wealth Management business delivers investment management and private banking services, while Asset Management supports individuals, advisors, and institutions with strategies spanning the full range of asset classes through a global investment network.

Equal opportunity and accommodations

The employer values diversity and inclusion and provides equal employment opportunity regardless of protected characteristics such as race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy, disability, or other legally protected status. Reasonable accommodations are available for religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.