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BNY

Safeguards and moves assets for investors

Senior Specialist - Agentic KYC Review & Controls

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/15/2026Deadline 10/15/26
No salary listed
Senior
Bachelor's
Singapore
In Person
Risk & ComplianceFinancial Crime & AML

About the job

Requirements
  • Strong familiarity with agentic artificial intelligence concepts, human-in-the-loop review models, workflow orchestration, and responsible artificial intelligence adoption.
  • Ability to identify business use cases for agentic artificial intelligence and translate operational needs into practical, control-conscious workflow requirements.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills to assess outputs, identify root causes, and connect workflow performance to business and control outcomes.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills to explain complex KYC, control, workflow, and technical concepts clearly to different audiences.
  • Effective stakeholder management skills to collaborate across business, compliance, operations, and technology teams.
  • Five to seven years of experience in financial services, including at least five years of relevant experience in AML/KYC, customer due diligence, onboarding, compliance, risk management, audit, quality control, or quality assurance.
  • Good understanding of KYC/AML rules and regulations across relevant jurisdictions.
  • High attention to detail, sound judgment, adaptability, and a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
Responsibilities
  • Apply agentic artificial intelligence capabilities across KYC review, case assessment, and control workflows for institutional clients across APAC.
  • Review onboarding and periodic review cases in line with regulatory obligations, internal policy standards, and control requirements.
  • Assess ownership and control structures, source documentation, and client information, and validate the quality and accuracy of case analysis and artificial-intelligence-supported outputs.
  • Review complex entity types and challenge case outcomes or artificial-intelligence-generated outputs where information is incomplete, inconsistent, or below required standards.
  • Validate account activity reviews and correspondent banking due diligence to ensure financial crime risks are appropriately identified, documented, and escalated.
  • Identify red flags, control gaps, workflow weaknesses, and quality issues, and escalate material concerns to Compliance and senior stakeholders.
  • Partner with Front Office, Compliance, Operations, and technology teams to resolve issues, strengthen controls, and support consistent KYC standards.
  • Support the design, testing, refinement, and continuous improvement of agentic workflows within KYC processes.
  • Translate business needs into practical artificial intelligence agent use cases, workflow logic, review criteria, and operating procedures.
  • Monitor artificial-intelligence-supported outputs for quality, consistency, usability, and control alignment, and recommend enhancements based on findings and stakeholder feedback.
  • Support responsible adoption of agentic artificial intelligence through strong documentation, human oversight, clear escalation paths, and control-conscious workflow design.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience supporting, assessing, or improving artificial-intelligence-enabled workflows, intelligent review solutions, or automation-driven operating models is strongly preferred.
  • Experience in KYC quality control, quality assurance, case review, testing, or sampling within institutional or corporate banking environments is strongly preferred.
  • Experience in correspondent banking due diligence, account activity review, and financial crime risk identification is preferred.
  • Familiarity with OFAC, FATCA, CRS, MiFID II, and banking or financial products is beneficial.
  • Fluency in English and Traditional and Simplified Chinese, including Mandarin proficiency, is strongly preferred to support the client segment.
  • A bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Economics, Banking & Finance, or a related field is preferred.

About the company

BNY safeguards financial assets and runs investment services for institutions, investment firms and wealthy clients around the world. Its custody business keeps clients' securities safe and handles the records and transactions needed to administer investment funds. Banks and brokers use its systems to settle trades, manage collateral and send payments, while its investment and wealth businesses manage portfolios and advise clients. It earns servicing and management fees as well as interest on loans and securities funded by client deposits. BNY traces its roots to the Bank of New York, founded by Alexander Hamilton in 1784, and is headquartered in New York City.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

1784

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What believers are saying

  • BNY's growth funds expansion: July 2026 results showed quarterly revenue rising 13% to $5.7 billion.
  • BNY is opening payment channels: September 2026 Pay-to-Wallet connected banks to retail wallets, with Kookmin among initial users.
  • Analysts build transferable skills: BNY's 24-month program combines rotations, mentoring and AI learning pathways.

What critics are saying

  • Staff stability has weakened: February 2026 reporting shows BNY headcount fell 7% in 2025.
  • Investment demand weakened: BNY reported $17 billion of net outflows in the quarter ending March 2026.
  • Investment fees face pressure: BNY reports demand shifting toward lower-fee asset-management products and performance-based charges.

What makes BNY unique

  • BNY anchors institutional finance: its custody and administration footprint reached $62.6 trillion in June 2026.
  • BNY occupies critical government-market plumbing: it is the primary provider of U.S. government securities clearance.
  • BNY reaches brokerage customers through Pershing: its clearing platform supports 8.6 million global client accounts.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

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Flexible Work Hours

Remote Work Options

Unlimited Paid Time Off

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BNY will report third-quarter earnings on Thursday before market open. Analysts expect revenue to grow 9.6% year on year, compared with a 9.1% rise in the same quarter last year. Last quarter, the company beat revenue expectations with $5.70 billion, up 13.3% year on year. It also beat analysts' earnings per share estimates, and has a history of topping Wall Street forecasts. Among peers, Goldman Sachs reported 23% revenue growth, beating estimates by 11.5%. Jefferies posted 8.5% growth, topping estimates by 1.1%, and its shares fell 1.3%. BNY shares are down 10.7% over the last month, against a 5.5% average fall for capital markets stocks. The average analyst price target is $163.47, versus a share price of $140.78.

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Yahoo Finance
Sep 6th, 2026
BNY Mellon's $62.6T custody business drives 70% of revenue through steady fee-based model

BNY Mellon, the world's largest custody bank, oversees $62.6 trillion in client assets, primarily from pension funds, mutual funds, and other institutional investors. The bank generated $5.7 billion in revenue in the second quarter, up 13% year over year, with 70% derived from asset custody and servicing fees. Custody banks hold and service assets for large institutional customers, operating with a fee-based business model that generates reliable earnings across market cycles. BNY Mellon's fees increase as asset levels rise through appreciation or net inflows. The bank also earns revenue from investment management and interest income from sweep accounts, where idle client cash is invested in high-yielding instruments. As one of a handful of major custody banks, BNY Mellon benefits from a competitive moat and has been the best-performing bank stock over the past five years.

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