KYC Middle Office Associate

As a KYC Middle Office Associate within the WKO (Wholesale KYC Operations) team, you will act as a single point of contact and subject matter expert (SME) for onboarding new customers, incremental business requests and renewals of our existing customer KYC records. You will be aligned to a designated Front Office team (e.g. Sales, RMP, Deal Team or Transition Management) and facilitate across all teams on KYC execution (both new business and renewals + remediation activities). Success in this role requires 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.,

• Manages the KYC book of work New Business/Renewals for your designated Front Office sub-LOB to prioritise active requests, provide status updates of key onboardings managing the end to end process
• Ensures awareness of Business forward planning
• Builds and develops strong partnerships, identify challenges and eliminate 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 prioritisation, 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 ensure impacts are communicated to our business partners
• Manages personal workload and priorities ensuring timely escalation of key risks/issues to management
• Identifies and execute process improvements, provide guidance and support on key process and technology initiatives to the business
• Works as a role model to peers and drive training and sharing of good practices
• Leads peers engaged on the same portfolio
  
  Are you a strong performer and want to utilise your communications skills? Then you found the right position for you!, 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)
  
  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. The Corporate & Investment Bank is a global leader across investment banking, wholesale payments, markets and securities services. The world's most important corporations, governments and institutions entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. We provide strategic advice, raise capital, manage risk and extend liquidity in markets around the world. Operations teams develop and manage innovative, secure service solutions to meet clients' needs globally. Developing and using the latest technology, teams work to deliver industry-leading capabilities to our clients and customers, making it easy and convenient to do business with the firm. Teams also drive growth by refining technology-driven customer and client experiences that put users first, providing an unparalleled experience.