G MASS are seeking a KYC Quality Assurance professional to join the new-to-bank onboarding team of a leading investment bank, supporting the onboarding of Investment Banking clients across the EMEA region.
This role sits at the heart of the bank’s onboarding control framework, reviewing and challenging KYC files completed by frontline analysts before clients are approved. It suits someone who can come in and hit the ground running, bringing genuine investment banking KYC experience and the confidence to engage with stakeholders across Front Office, Compliance and Operations from day one.
The successful candidate will apply the bank’s global minimum standards policy alongside UK and EU top-ups, ensuring files meet both internal policy and regulatory expectations. Beyond file review, the role offers real scope to influence the quality of the wider function, identifying recurring errors, tracing them back to their root cause and helping shape training and workflow improvements across the onboarding team.
Responsibilities
- Perform quality assurance and checker reviews of new-to-bank KYC files for Investment Banking clients, ensuring accuracy, completeness and adherence to global minimum standards and UK and EU regulatory top-ups.
- Review complex client structures and transaction types, including Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) setups, advisory mandates and wider IB transactions, assessing ownership, control and risk appropriately.
- Identify recurring errors made by frontline KYC analysts and conduct root cause analysis to trace them back to training gaps or workflow weaknesses.
- Feed findings back into the onboarding function, contributing to training content, procedural updates and control enhancements that lift overall file quality.
- Partner with stakeholders across Front Office and Sales, Compliance and Operations, providing clear, constructive challenge and acting as a trusted point of contact on KYC quality matters.
- Apply strong knowledge of global AML legislation and EMEA regulatory requirements to ensure onboarding decisions are robust and defensible.
Requirements
- 3 to 5 years’ experience in a KYC quality assurance, quality control or checker role.
- Investment banking experience is essential: candidates must be able to step straight into an IB onboarding environment and contribute immediately.
- Solid understanding of IB transactions, SPV structures and advisory transactions, and the KYC considerations that come with them.
- Good knowledge of global anti-money laundering legislation, with a working understanding of EMEA regulations including UK and EU requirements.
- Strong control mindset and a sharp eye for detail, with the ability to spot errors and inconsistencies that others miss.
- Confident communicator, comfortable working with and challenging multiple stakeholders across different departments.
- Experience with Dow Jones screening tools is a plus, but not a core requirement.
Benefits
Length: 4-month initial contract
Hybrid working (3 days in the London office)