KYC Operations Middle Office Associate

Join our Global Corporate Banking (GCB) Middle Office Team ensuring seamless client onboarding with strong partnerships and compliance excellence.
As a KYC Middle Office Associate within the Global Corporate Banking (GCB) Middle Office Team, you will be the single point of contact and subject matter expert for onboarding new customers and managing KYC records renewals. Aligned with a designated Front Office team, you will facilitate KYC execution across all teams, ensuring an exceptional client onboarding experience. Your role requires building strong relationships with internal and external customers, managing expectations, and providing timely updates on onboarding progress.

Job responsibilities

• Manages the KYC book of work for your designated Front Office sub-Line of Business, prioritizing active requests and providing status updates
• Builds and develops strong partnerships, identifying challenges and eliminating roadblocks with all internal partners
• Works with Front Office teams to obtain necessary supporting evidence for KYC due diligence
• Ensures all client information is accurate, complete, and compliant with regulatory requirements
• Coordinates case prioritization, capacity planning, and assignment with back office teams
• Stays updated on process changes, regulatory changes, and communicate impacts to business partners
• Manages personal workload and priorities, escalating key risks/issues to management as needed
• Identifies and executes process improvements, providing guidance on key process and technology initiatives
• Serves as a role model to peers, driving training and sharing of best practices
   

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Relevant experience in banking / finance sector 
• Strong written and oral communication skills with experience in conflict resolution
• Resilient interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and negotiate effectively with business partners and senior managers
• Client-focused with a strong controls mindset
• Hands-on approach with attention to detail and strong organizational skills
• Proactive and flexible approach to workload and team targets
• Effective time management and organizational skills for maximum productivity
   

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Working knowledge of KYC/Compliance/AML standards
• Sound understanding of the Financial Industry
• Knowledge of multiple client types and legal structures

About UsJ.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.
About the TeamJ.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.