Associate- Replc- KYC Due Dilligence

Group Company: Acuity Knowledge Services (India) Private Limited

Designation: Senior Associate

Office Location: Gurgaon/ Bangalore

Position description: This position will be responsible for the delivery of projects related to KYC operations.

The operations will cover:

• Risk assessment of the customer/client/counterparty (herein after referred to as “customer”)
• Renewals
• Remediation’s
• Client out
  
  

• Assessing the underlying risk of a customer (covering but not limited to registration, regulatory/license, nature of business, legal status, ownership structure, key personnel, sanctions, PEP/SOE and adverse news)
• Extracting & validation information from different sources (databases, company websites, open web searches)
• Performing due diligence and prepare exhaustive due diligence reports
  
  

• - Registration and license overview of the customer
• Conduct ownership (direct and indirect) reviews
• Identify key stakeholders controlling a customer
• Perform Sanctions, Watch List, PEP and Adverse New Screening
• Analyse screening results
• Prepare Risk Summaries on the basis of the available, collated and researched information.
• Conduct quality reviews (Peer QA and QC)
• Prepare MIS reports and documentation related to the tasks
• Interact with the customer and discuss the outputs
  
  

• 2 to 6 years’ experience with Global Financial Institutions, with strong hands-on experience in handling all operations (on-boarding, renewals and remediation’s) and all processes (legal checks, ownership reviews, screening and risk profiling)
• Spanish language (both verbal and written)
• Strong domain knowledge
• Excellent research skills, especially to unwrap ownership layers across different kinds of legal entities
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
• Strong judgement skills for interpretation of screening adverse news
• Proven record in client interactions
• Strong Analytical skills to spot trends and patterns
• Strong Reporting skills (MIS for operational statistics)
• Experience using at least one ownership databases like Orbis, Bankers Almanac, Bankscope, SWIFT Registry, etc
• Experience using at least one screening databases like Dow Jones, World Check, Lexis Nexis, Orbis, etc
  
  

• ACAMS
• ACFCS
• ICA