KYC Foreign Correspondent Banks Senior Specialist

Welcome to JP Morgan. Here is another great opportunity! Currently we are looking for KYC Foreign Correspondent Banks Senior Specialist to join our team in Bournemouth. Interested? Continue reading! 

As KYC FCB Senior Specialist, you will act as a single point of contact and subject matter expert (SME) for renewals of our existing customer KYC records for FCB (Foreign Correspondent Banks). You will be aligned to the Wholesale Payments Front Office team and facilitate across all internal teams on KYC execution. To be successful in this role you need to have the ability to quickly build rapport with our internal and external customers to ensure the KYC aspect of the Clients onboarding experience is exceptional, efficient and world class. You will be familiar with working in an analytical environment, able to evaluate complex and lengthy documents to ensure full adherence to regulation requirements, and have a proven experience of producing quality work whilst maintaining regular throughput, adhering to time sensitive deadlines as necessary.

Job responsibilities

• Manages own KYC renewals/new business book of work and complete the end to end KYC process
• Partners with the Front Office and on occasion direct with clients as required, to obtain all necessary supporting evidence to fulfil KYC due diligence requirements
• Liaises regularly with the business to conduct workload planning, reviews status of key renewals and prioritizes open requests
• Interacts with key stakeholders such as Front Office, Compliance, Quality Control to develop strong partnerships, eliminate roadblocks and ensures continuity of information flow across the groups
• Creates quality KYC profiles ensuring accuracy, completeness and validity, incorporating multiple risk factors in compliance with global and local regulatory requirements
• Manages personal workload and priority items and ensures timely escalation of key risks/issues to management
• Stays up to date of any changes to processes and procedures, regulatory change and ensures impacts are communicated to our business partners

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Working knowledge of KYC/Compliance/AML standards
• Sound understanding of the Financial Industry
• Knowledge of Foreign Correspondent Banks
• Knowledge of the Treasury Services Product suite
• Strong written and oral communication skills with experience of conflict resolution and risk mitigation
• 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