Job Title Client Know Your Client (KYC) Officer

Location Birmingham

Corporate Title Associate/Assistant Vice President

The Client KYC Officer supports the Institutional Cash Management/Trade Finance team covering financial institution clients within the respective team.

You will work directly with the Accountable Client Owner (ACO) responsible for the client relationships with our correspondent banking/trade finance clients to complete client KYC adoptions and reviews, ensuring strict adherence to Deutsche Bank’s KYC/Anti Money Laundering (AML) Compliance requirements. Further, you will also fulfil important support functions in the non-financial risk management of client relationships, such as analysis of clients’ transaction flow.

Today’s regulatory and compliance environment requires a robust and efficient KYC process and strong non-financial risk management, making the role key to the first line of defence role of the business.

What we’ll offer you

A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce are better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That’s why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its centre.

Hybrid Working

We understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a Hybrid Working Model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern that works for them.

You can expect:

• Competitive salary and non-contributory pension
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional days
• Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family
• A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits
• The opportunity to support a wide-ranging CSR programme + 2 days’ volunteering leave per year

Your key responsibilities

• KYC Risk Management for high-risk and complex clients including active client research and screening prospective clients before on-boarding as well as part of on-going periodic review process
• Direct client outreach, collecting information & documentation according to onboarding timelines and follow up to ensure complete and timely delivery, complete relevant KYC forms/systems and updating of client KYC profiles driven by material events
• Onboarding related client discussions and AML interviews
• Coordinate with local Compliance and other Global Transaction Banking/Corporate Investment Banking/Infrastructure areas on client KYC issues as required.

Your skills and experience

• Previous experience in Correspondent Banking/Trade Finance/Compliance/KYC in a large financial institution preferred
• Good understanding of KYC laws/regulations, compliance risk as well as non-financial risk, and documentation aspects of KYC process for correspondent banking/trade finance relationships
• Strong writing skills and fluency in written and spoken English required.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to build and maintain relationships with colleagues and clients at all levels of seniority
• Accuracy, diligence, and the ability to deliver high quality results within tight deadlines combined with strong analytical skills and ability to work under pressure

How we’ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career
• Coaching and support from experts in your team
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
• We value diversity and as an equal opportunities’ employer, we make reasonable adjustments for those with a disability such as the provision of assistive equipment if required (e.g. screen readers, assistive hearing devices, adapted keyboards)

About us and our teams

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Our values define the working environment we strive to create – diverse, supportive and welcoming of different views. We embrace a culture reflecting a variety of perspectives, insights and backgrounds to drive innovation. We build talented and diverse teams to drive business results and encourage our people to develop to their full potential. Talk to us about flexible work arrangements and other initiatives we offer.

We promote good working relationships and encourage high standards of conduct and work performance. We welcome applications from talented people from all cultures, countries, races, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, beliefs and generations and are committed to providing a working environment free from harassment, discrimination and retaliation.

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