KYC Onboarding Analyst

In this pivotal role, you will be responsible for conducting comprehensive Customer Due Diligence (CDD) and Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) checks for our diverse range of corporate clients. You will play a crucial part in the Ebury onboarding process, ensuring compliance with all relevant legislative and regulatory requirements while maintaining direct contact with clients to effectively communicate our onboarding standards.

Your keen analytical skills will be essential as you identify complex ownership structures and financial transaction patterns, allowing you to make informed risk-based decisions on client applications. You'll thrive in a fast-paced environment, managing your own portfolio of cases and collaborating with various teams to streamline processes and enhance client experiences.

With some foundational experience in CDD and EDD, you will bring a good understanding of financial crime typologies and a proactive mindset to our dynamic team. If you are highly organized, detail-oriented, and possess excellent communication skills, we want you to be part of our mission to make Ebury a leader in financial services.

Join us in shaping a secure financial future for our clients while advancing your career in a supportive and innovative environment. Apply now to become an integral part of our Onboarding team at Ebury!

Due Diligence Execution, Quality, and Risk Assessment

• →Risk-Based Due Diligence: Conduct comprehensive CDD and EDD for Shipping clients, including the accurate identification and verification of ownership structures and necessary documentation.
• →Client Due Diligence Expertise: Ensure all personal due diligence checks comply with internal policies and legislative requirements.
• →Quality & Right First Time (RFT) Adherence: Strive for high-quality output by ensuring all personal case submissions meet compliance standards and are processed Right First Time (RFT), minimising rework.
• →Red Flag Identification: Identify and escalate financial crime typologies and red flags relevant to the payments, FX, and institutional space to Senior Analysts or Compliance, as required.
• →Quality Control: Perform quality assurance/4-eye checks on peer work, verifying the accuracy and completeness of CDD/EDD files prior to final submission.
• →General Project Support: Support ad-hoc tasks within team and FC Ops Pillar and wider business as required
• →Operational Meeting Support: Analysts are expected to provide case-level expertise on an ad-hoc basis, stepping in to facilitate discussions or address technical queries as required.
• →Front Office Technical Liaison: Act as a point of contact for Front Office queries, providing technical solutions for cases and ensuring onboarding requirements are clearly communicated.
• →Collaborative Delivery: Support the Manager in training delivery for both the KYC teams and Front Office teams
• →Delegated Training Tasks: Support the delivery of training materials and knowledge transfer as a delegated project, ensuring local teams receive consistent guidance.

Client Management and Operational Efficiency

• →Client Liaison: Serve as a compliant and professional point of contact for clients, clearly communicating onboarding requirements, and managing follow-up queries.
• →Portfolio Management: Efficiently manage a personal queue of onboarding cases, prioritising tasks and following up with clients and sales representatives to support cycle time reduction.
• →Structured Documentation: Ensure every client file is accurately and completely documented in a structured format, fully compliant with regulatory requirements.
• →Onboarding Excellence: Collaborate with internal teams to ensure a smooth and efficient onboarding journey; provide operational oversight and ad-hoc technical support to resolve case-specific bottlenecks as they arise.

Internal Collaboration and Knowledge Development

• →Cross-Functional Communication: Communicate effectively with Front Office teams to balance commercial needs with regulatory requirements.
• →Knowledge Transfer: Proactively participate in training and take ownership of personal learning, staying current with evolving financial crime mandates and internal policy updates.

• Proven Experience: 1-3 years of specialized experience conducting CDD/EDD with corporate clients, ideally within the financial services/FinTech sector.
• Due Diligence Foundational Knowledge: Strong, foundational knowledge of entity onboarding requirements and the ability to interpret ownership structures.
• Accountability & Drive: Demonstrable history of personal productivity, ownership, and the ability to work effectively and independently within a fast-paced environment.
• Analytical Thinking: Good analytical skills and the ability to follow procedures and apply regulatory or documentation requirements.
• Communication: Strong communication skills in English (both written and verbal) with demonstrated experience in direct client contact.

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Ebury delivers sophisticated, integrated solutions — business accounts, hedging, and financing — on a single platform with a seamless workflow. Our success is built on a simple premise and singular purpose: To help businesses operate and scale globally. 

Since its founding in 2009, Ebury has always been a fast-growing leader in fintech. Today, we bring together 1,800+ Eburians across nearly 70 cities and we’re always looking to add to our team. 

At the heart of our offering is a proprietary platform, purpose-built to help businesses seamlessly streamline and manage global cash flow. We focus on continuous product evolution and innovation to build the infrastructure for borderless growth and help our clients scale at every stage. 

The opportunities at Ebury are as diverse as our people, ranging from business development to engineering roles across our tech pillars.

We believe in inclusion. We stand against discrimination in all forms and are against the intolerance of differences that makes us a modern and successful organisation. At Ebury, you can be whoever you want to be and still feel a sense of belonging no matter your story.