KYC Analyst – Private Banking & Wealth Management - 6 Months Contract - Hong Kong

Job Title: KYC Analyst – Private Banking & Wealth Management

Location: Hong Kong

Perm/Contract/ Full-time/Part-time: Contract - 6 Months

On-site/Hybrid/Remote: On-site

Who We Are

Robert Walters is the world’s most trusted talent solutions business. Across the globe, we deliver recruitment, outsourcing, and talent advisory services for businesses of all sizes, opening doors for people with diverse skills, ambitions, and backgrounds.

Our Outsourcing service delivers recruitment for some of the world’s top employers, and we are currently recruiting on behalf of one our client which is the is a French multinational universal bank and financial services holding company. It has a presence in 65 countries, with close to 190,000 employees. It is the largest banking group in Europe, and the ninth-largest banking group in the world (by assets). It was ranked as the 33rd largest public company in the world.

The Role

Our client is seeking a KYC Analyst – Private Banking & Wealth Management - 6 Months Contract - Hong Kong in the Banking division.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to join a global team, providing top-tier service to existing and prospective clients while expanding the business on a product and global level.

The successful candidate will be responsible for acquiring new clients, managing existing relationships, and contributing to the company's mission of becoming a Top Clearer worldwide in commodity markets.

Job description:

Position purpose:

Client On-Boarding team's objective is to be the sole interface for new clients for standard sensitive accounts. The goal, for this team, is to ensure a global and consistent "first service" is rendered to the clients.

This team will be working around 3 main themes: Prioritization of on-boarding, Coordination of the whole process (Risk, Legal and Systems) and production of the Legal documentation and KYC (Collection, Completeness, Conformity and Analysis. The team is also in charge of the regular review process for standard sensitive accounts. The team must work as "one team" to ensure a cutting edge on-boarding service to clients and work closely with major functions as well as FO/Markets. Overall, through a dedicated on-boarding team and a single point of contact, the team is responsible for client satisfaction with respect to on-boarding. To facilitate and provide a complete transversal on–boarding service to WM APAC. Producing client risk assessments, client profiles, and due diligence analyses. Providing feedback and escalating issues to the appropriate support functions and management.

Key responsibilities:

• Performing various CDD functions in Wealth management
• Ensure and deliver high standard of quality in the KYC files in adherence to the banks policies and procedures.
• Ensure all processes executed during the final overview of the KYC files are delivered per predefined SLA.
• Liaise with Compliance relationship managers and other senior stakeholders for KYC approval.
• Arrange prepare document and facilitate CAC eCAC towards the final approval for the KYC file.
• Ensure timely escalation and own proposed course of actions to line management to address identified risks and blocking points during such processes.
• Develop a good understanding of the overall KYC operations process and act as a subject matter expert to support the team.
• Embrace continuous changes and challenges handle various initiatives.
• Team player independent hardworking eager to learn and attention to details
• Client oriented and high adaptability to changing environment Able to work under pressure and deal with unclear requests as well as a high volume of requests
• Strong analytical and strong risk sense

Requirements/ Qualifications:

• Minimum 1 year of relevant working experience
• Bachelors level degree or professional qualification
• Strong understanding of account documentation due diligence and local Anti Money Laundering requirements•
• Understand the principles and be familiar with WM products and types of customers preferred
• Fluent in English spoken and written, good command in Mandarin is a plus
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Must possess strong fundamental and technical skills awareness of operational risk
• Excellent PC skills especially in Excel
• Team player independent hardworking eager to learn and attention to details
• Client oriented and high adaptability to changing environment Able to work under pressure and deal with unclear requests as well as a high volume of requests
• Strong analytical and strong risk sense.

This position is being recruited on behalf of our client through our Outsourcing service line. Resource Solutions Limited, trading as Robert Walters, acts as an employment business and agency, partnering with top organisations to help them find the best talent. We welcome applications from all candidates and are committed to providing equal opportunities.