KYC Specialist - Associate

• Manage own KYC renewals/new business book of work and complete the end to end KYC process
• Partner with the Front Office and on occasion direct with clients as required, to obtain all necessary supporting evidence to fulfil KYC due diligence requirements
• Liaise regularly with the business to conduct workload planning, review status of key renewals and prioritize open requests
• Interact with key stakeholders such as Front Office, Compliance, Quality Control to develop strong partnerships, eliminate roadblocks and ensure continuity of information flow across the groups
• Create quality KYC profiles ensuring accuracy, completeness and validity, incorporating multiple risk factors in compliance with global and local regulatory requirements
• Manage personal workload and priority items and ensure timely escalation of key risks/issues to management
• Stay up to date of any changes to processes and procedures, regulatory change and ensure impacts are communicated to our business partners
• Identify and execute process improvements, provide guidance and support on key process and technology initiatives to the business

• Strong written and oral communication skills with experience of conflict resolution and risk mitigation
• 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 (minimum 2 years' industry experience required)
• Sound understanding of the Financial Industry
• Experience using approved AI tools to support KYC casework (document summarisation, key data extraction, drafting narratives), with appropriate human review
• Strong controls mindset when applying AI, including validating outputs against source documents and escalating exceptions appropriately
• Proactive in identifying opportunities to use AI to improve quality and cycle times, in partnership with stakeholders
• Fluency in English and Turkish.

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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.

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ABOUT THE TEAM

J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.