Position Summary
This role is part of the Group Anti-Financial Crime Utility team, with a core focus on
Know Your Client (KYC)
and
Anti-Money Laundering (AML)
operations. The KYC Operations team plays a meaningful role in safeguarding the organization against financial crime by ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies.
Roles And Responsibilities
- Collect and analyze data for onboarding new clients and conducting periodic reviews.
- Enforce to established procedures to ensure timely response to alerts, with a focus on a specific area.
- Escalate unresolved issues to the appropriate support level and ensure alerts are accurately detailed, tracked, and closed.
- Review trigger events related to existing clients and, when vital, acquire additional supporting documentation.
- Clearly and concisely document research and analysis of clients’ financial activities and associated entities for customers including Management, Regulators, Legal, and Internal Compliance.
- Conduct AML checks, sanction/PEP screenings, onboarding due diligence, and ongoing monitoring in alignment with global standards and strategies.
- Ensure sanction/PEP screenings are performed accurately and appropriate actions are taken.
- Carry out complex research/investigations to confirm whether the potential matches to global sanctions lists are actual matches according to laid down guidelines.
- Maintain relevant databases and documentation, and recommend controls to ensure regulatory compliance.
- Present findings and updates to partners such as colleagues and front office account managers during onboarding, periodic reviews, trigger events, and offboarding processes.
- Assist team members with AML-related checks and procedures.
- Facilitate communication across the business to ensure significant financial crime-related issues are appropriately called out.
- Conduct quality control reviews of KYC/AML documentation.
- Communicate professionally and confidently with internal customers throughout client lifecycle processes including onboarding, reviews, and offboarding.
Preferred Skills And Experience
- A bachelor’s degree in a relevant subject area, along with equivalent professional experience.
- At least 5 years of hands-on experience in KYC and AML processes.
- Strong ability to source data from multiple platforms/systems and ensure accurate data handling while maintaining compliance with operational and regulatory standards.
- Practical exposure to financial crime investigations or possession of transferable skills applicable to the domain.
- A strong interest and inquisitiveness in financial crime-related topics.
LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of
Integrity, Partnership
,
Excellence
and
Change
underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.Please take a moment to read this privacy notice carefully, as it describes what personal information London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) (we) may hold about you, what it’s used for, and how it’s obtained, your rights and how to contact us as a data subject.LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth.Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of
Integrity, Partnership
,
Excellence
and
Change
underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth. Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity.LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.Please take a moment to read this privacy notice carefully, as it describes what personal information London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) (we) may hold about you, what it’s used for, and how it’s obtained, your rights and how to contact us as a data subject.If you are submitting as a Recruitment Agency Partner, it is essential and your responsibility to ensure that candidates applying to LSEG are aware of this privacy notice.
