
KYC Specialist - Maternity Leave substitution - 4 months assignment
KYC Specialist
Primary Responsibilities:
We are looking for someone to support our team while a colleague is on maternity leave. The role will contribute to all aspects of the Know Your Customer New York team, including:
- Conduct and complete KYC onboarding requests as well as KYC reviews,
- Conduct quality control on KYC files as well as periodic reviews on existing customers,
- Perform enhanced due diligence (EDD) reviews for high-risk customers,
- Ensure that customers are correctly risk-classified in accordance with national and international regulation and UniCredit’s policies and procedures,
- Conduct and verify sanctions checks,
- Conduct and evaluate checks for political exposed persons (PEP),
- Conduct and assess adverse media / negative news screenings,
- Communicate effectively and efficiently with internal and external stakeholders.
Experience & Skills:
- Detailed understanding of AML/KYC regulations, policies, and procedures,
- Outstanding written and verbal communication, and problem-solving skills,
- Hardworking, self-starter and result-oriented mindset with the ability to learn and work in a fast-paced environment,
- Strong analytical skills,
- Strong stakeholder management skills,
- Experience in the financial sector in financial crime prevention beneficial.
Education: Bachelor’s degree in economics, business, law or equivalent, additional certifications such as CAMS beneficial
Languages: English
Systems: experience with an AML CDD tool beneficial, but not required
Other:
Candidate shall perform services to include, but not limited to, those services more fully described below and anything else in such supervisory and general administrative capacities that is reasonably requested by his / her supervisor or any other officer of UniCredit Group.
The functional job title may be changed, the Candidate may be reassigned to new or different responsibilities or entity (to the fullest extent provided by law), and the forgoing duties may be revised, supplemented, or replaced at any time, in the sole discretion of UniCredit Group. If any of the forgoing occurs, Candidate may be required to obtain necessary federal, state or local licenses (e.g., Series 7).