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State Street

Holds assets for institutions and runs index funds

KYC Specialist - Associate 1

Financial Crime & AMLPosted on Nov 13
Full-timeGdańsk, Poland

About the Job

Requirements

  • A good understanding of anti-money laundering and know-your-customer regulations.
  • Good Microsoft Excel and Word skills.
  • Very good English language skills.

Responsibilities

  • Support business units in timely and accurate end-to-end anti-money-laundering and know-your-customer processes for onboarding new customers and accounts, periodic reviews, and event-driven reviews of existing customers and accounts.
  • Collect and analyze client data, documents, and publicly available information, screen entity names against sanctions lists, and perform customer anti-money-laundering risk assessments.
  • Perform know-your-customer due diligence in line with applicable policies, standards, and procedures before account openings and on an ongoing basis.
  • Create know-your-customer profiles in the system of record.
  • Complete the forms required to support the Customer Identification Program and Customer Due Diligence.
  • Screen client names and other parties in line with screening standards.
  • Independently source Customer Due Diligence documentation from internal and external sources, including regulatory and company websites, Banker’s Almanac, LexisNexis, and World-Check.
  • Work with Front Office employees to request other required Customer Due Diligence documentation from customers.
  • Validate Customer Due Diligence documentation provided by customers.
  • Complete customer anti-money-laundering risk assessments using corporate compliance tools and methods.
  • Meet agreed key risk indicator and key performance indicator targets for profile reviews, escalating when required.
  • Maintain assigned tasks in the designated tracking and reporting tool.
  • Provide updates to stakeholders upon request.
  • Assist with external regulatory examinations or testing.
  • Escalate anti-money-laundering concerns, suspicious activity, or corporate policy breaches in a timely manner.
  • Notify local management of operational issues.
  • Attend and participate in anti-money-laundering awareness training sessions.
  • Support ad hoc and strategic projects as required.
  • Complete enhanced due diligence on high-risk customers and accounts.
  • Perform enhanced due diligence monitoring and politically exposed person analysis as required.
  • Assist team members with sourcing information and documentation required for Customer Identification Program and Customer Due Diligence completion.
  • Assist in facilitating anti-money-laundering awareness training across the team.
  • Complete know-your-customer due diligence requirements accurately and on time, including periodic and event-driven reviews and reviews of expected versus actual transaction activity.
  • Maintain role-specific knowledge of current anti-money-laundering and financial-crime risks and issues through the annual AML Academy and applicable financial-crime training.

Desired Qualifications

  • One or more of the following languages: French, German, Italian, Dutch, or Arabic.

About the Company

State Street

Holds assets for institutions and runs index funds

State Street holds and services investments for pension funds, insurers, fund companies, and other large institutions, and it also runs index funds through State Street Investment Management. It launched the first US-listed exchange-traded fund, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust, in 1993, and in 1924 it became custodian of the first US mutual fund. As a custody bank, it safekeeps clients' stocks and bonds, completes their trades, calculates what their funds are worth, and lends their securities to other investors. It earns fees on the assets it services and manages, plus income from currency trading and from interest on client cash. State Street traces its roots to a bank chartered in 1792 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Boston, MA
Founded
1792

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