Senior KYC Analyst & Team Lead

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We are currently hiring for a Senior KYC Analyst & Team Lead within to join the team on a permanent basis. The role sits within our Global Corporate business.

Our Global Corporate Trust team provides trustee and agency services to market participants, including financial institutions, corporates, lenders and their advisers. We provide trust and agency services across the spectrum of debt capital market and loan market products, and our extensive range of service functions include account bank, agent bank, collateral administrator, custodian, escrow agent, facility agent, paying agent, security agent and trustee, successor trustee and transfer agent.

The team lead is responsible for the onboarding of customers in a Trust unit within the organization to meet unit and divisional objectives. Must adhere to unit policies, procedures, and training initiatives to comply with Companies AML, KYC and Sanctions Obligations. Will serve as an expert resource for onboarding and customer due diligence. Involvement with ongoing additional projects, including but not limited to remediation projects and developing the Companies e-KYC system as required.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Responsibility for managing the KYC onboarding of Corporate Trust transactions that are reviewed and closed in the Relationship Management team

• Co-ordination of the due diligence process prior to being presented to the Corporate Trust Risk team for approval.

• Identifies business risks and operational challenges and takes steps to mitigate risk and enhance operating systems and processes.

• Knows the customers in the market, understands and responds to needs and expectations of customers, establishes effective working relationships with internal and external customers, resolves problems quickly and effectively and identifies opportunities for improvements.

• Maintains a high level of current knowledge of European Regulation associated with Customer Due Diligence, Enhanced Due Diligence and Sanctions. Understands and complies with all U.S. Bancorp policies and procedures and all applicable government regulations.

• Needs to act as initial escalation point for the KYC Team complex KYC questions and issue management (such as constructive challenge on requirements)

• Will be required to liaise with internal stakeholders across the business as well as within Risk and Compliance areas.

• Actively ensures compliance with the U.S. Bank Code of Ethics and all Anti-Money Laundering, Bank Secrecy Act, information security and suspicious activity reporting requirements, policies and procedures.

• Determine information needs and extract information from source documents which may involve reading and analysing complex…