KYC Group Technical Lead

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Headquartered in London, we operate internationally and at Lloyd’s. With a global team of over 1000 people and 10 international offices, we’re able to advise from Brussels to Bermuda. As an independent (re) insurance broking firm we work with intermediaries, direct insureds and reinsureds. For over 120 years we’ve been industry leaders in a variety of specialist areas.

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The Group KYC Technical Lead is the senior technical subject matter expert for KYC operations, with responsibility for supporting complex and escalated cases, making judgement calls on challenging scenarios, and ensuring the effective use of KYC workflows, systems, and controls across the global team. This role acts as the bridge between KYC Operations, Technology, Compliance, and offshore delivery teams, ensuring that KYC systems and processes are applied consistently, efficiently, and in line with policy and regulatory expectations.

The role also provides day‑to‑day oversight, coaching, and capability uplift for offshore teams handling KYC activities. The postholder will bring deep practical experience in Salesforce and associated KYC / case management / screening / workflow systems, combined with the confidence to make sound decisions on exceptions, process gaps, and non‑standard client scenarios.

1. Technical KYC Expertise

• Act as the lead technical SME for KYC systems, workflows, and operational processes.
• Provide expert guidance on how KYC requirements should be interpreted and executed within core platforms.
• Support the resolution of system, data, workflow, and process issues affecting KYC delivery.
• Partner with technology teams to improve system design, controls, data quality, and user experience.
• Ensure effective use of Salesforce and other supporting tools used in the KYC lifecycle.

2. Escalations and Challenging Cases

• Handle complex, high‑risk, or non‑standard KYC cases escalated by analysts, offshore teams, or business stakeholders.
• Make judgement calls on cases where policy interpretation, data gaps, documentation complexity, or process exceptions arise.
• Support consistent decision‑making by documenting rationale and driving repeatable handling approaches.
• Escalate appropriately to Compliance, MLRO, Financial Crime, or senior stakeholders where required.

3. Offshore Team Oversight

• Provide functional oversight and day‑to‑day support to offshore KYC teams.
• Monitor quality, consistency, productivity, and adherence to procedure.
• Act as a point of escalation for questions, blockers, and technical/process issues.
• Build offshore team capability through coaching, guidance, training, and QA feedback.
• Help establish a strong control environment and continuous improvement culture.

4. Process Governance and Continuous Improvement

• Identify gaps, pain points, and control weaknesses in the end‑to‑end KYC process.
• Drive process simplification, standardisation, and automation opportunities.
• Translate operational issues into business requirements for system or workflow enhancements.
• Support change initiatives, UAT, process redesign, and implementation of new tools or controls.
• Maintain playbooks, decision trees, SOPs, and knowledge materials for complex case handling.

5. Stakeholder Management

• Work closely with KYC Operations, Compliance, Financial Crime, Technology, Client Onboarding, and business teams.
• Provide credible technical and operational input into governance forums, issue resolution, and change initiatives.
• Build trusted relationships across onshore and offshore teams.
• Communicate complex issues clearly to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

• Lead technical support for KYC case management and workflow execution.
• Review and resolve escalated KYC cases,…