Analyst – KYC (Fixed Term Contract)
- Full time
- @Acuity Knowledge Partners
Job Detail
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Job ID 5617
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Career Level Others
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Experience Fresh
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Industry IT & BPM
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Qualifications Degree Bachelor
Job Description
About the job:
Experience/ Skills Required:
- Willing to work on a contract basis
- Graduates with a master’s or bachelor’s degree in finance or law
- Freshers with a strong academic background
- Certifications such as ACAMS, ACFCS and ICA (preferred)
- Excellent business communication skills
- Strong research skills
- Solid judgment skills for the interpretation of adverse news
- Good analytical skills to spot trends and patterns
Responsibilities:
- Assess a customer’s underlying risk (covering, but not limited to, registration, regulatory/license, nature of business, legal status, ownership structure, key personnel, sanctions, PEP/SOE and adverse news)
- Extract and validate information from different sources (databases, company websites, open web searches, etc.)
- Perform due diligence and prepare exhaustive due diligence reports
- Review customers’ transactions to assess if they are in line with their nature of business
- Perform the registration and license overview of the customer
- Conduct ownership (direct and indirect) reviews
- Identify key stakeholders controlling a customer
- Perform sanctions, watch list, Politically Exposed Person and adverse new screening
- Analyse screening results
- Prepare risk summaries based on the available, collated and researched information
- Assess and monitor transactions
- Conduct quality reviews (peer QA and QC)
- Prepare task-related MIS reports and documentation
- Interact with the customer and discuss output
