Wholesale KYC Operations Middle Office Associate

at  JPMorgan Chase Co

JOB DESCRIPTION

Are you an ambitious and flexible individual with the working knowledge of KYC standards?
As a KYC Middle Office Associate, you will act as a single point of contact and subject matter expert (SME) for onboarding new customers, incremental business requests and renewals of our existing customer KYC records. You will be aligned to a designated Front Office team (e.g. Sales, RMP, Deal Team or Transition Management) and facilitate across all teams on KYC execution (both new business and renewals + remediation activities). Working with our business partners you will manage expectations on turnaround timeframes and provide appropriate updates on the progress of the onboarding. You must be able to demonstrate; excellence, diversity, quality, respect and inclusivity and be able to self-motivate as well as work collaboratively within the wider team.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS, CAPABILITIES, AND SKILLS

• Strong written and oral communication skills with experience of conflict resolution
• 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
• Sound understanding of the Financial Industry
• Knowledge of multiple client types (i.e. Corporates, Non-Banking Financial Institutions, Banks, Foreign Correspondent Banks, Non-Operating/Asset Holding Companies, Governments, Organizations, Publicly Traded Companies, Small and Large Privately Held Operating Companies)

ABOUT US

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.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

• Manages the KYC book of work New Business/Renewals for designated Front Office sub-LOB to prioritise active requests, provides status updates of key onboardings managing the end to end process
• Builds and develops strong partnerships, identifies challenges and eliminates roadblocks with all internal partners
• Work with the Front Office teams, directing clients as required, to obtain all necessary supporting evidence to fulfil KYC due diligence
• Ensures all information to and from our Clients is accurate, complete and compliant with AML, Local and Corporate Due Diligence requirements
• Coordinates case prioritization, capacity planning, and assignment with our Global Maker teams and QC
• Stays up to date of any changes to processes and procedures, regulatory change and ensure impacts are communicated to our business partners
• Manages personal workload and priorities ensuring timely escalation of key risks/issues to management
• Identifies and executes process improvements, provides guidance and support on key process and technology initiatives to the business
• Works as a role model to peers and drive training and sharing of good practices
• Might lead peers engaged on the same portfolio