KYC Processing Analyst

Step into the role of a KYC Processing Analyst at Barclays, where you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and mitigating financial crime risks. As part of the know your customer team, you will be responsible for reviewing customer information, conducting due diligence, and ensuring adherence to internal and external regulatory standards. With competitive benefits and opportunities for career advancement, Barclays is a great place to grow your career in the banking industry.

Key Critical Skills:

• Understanding of know your customer concepts, including customer identification, due diligence, and regulatory compliance requirements.

• Ability to analyze customer data, identify inconsistencies, and escalate potential red flags related to financial crime risks.

• Use strong time management skills to complete complex, business critical tasks within pressured timescales – ensuring the KYC Team meets all target SLA’s and providing a quick and efficient service to Clients.

• Contribute to a Positive, Supportive and Proactive working culture by sharing knowledge and expertise both locally and globally.

• Collaborate with other Barclays teams & functions to consistently deliver an excellent ‘One Barclays’ Client experience and challenging operational processes with solutions to enhance the team’s current processes.

Desirable Skill Set:

• Capability to meticulously review customer documents and information, ensuring correctness and completeness while minimizing errors in data processing.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills to interact professionally with internal stakeholders, request additional information when needed, and document findings clearly and concisely.

• Strong time management skills to be able to proactively manage your workload effectively to complete complex and high-priority tasks within target timescales.

• Analysis & Judgement: must undertake KYC analysis with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.

Purpose of the role:

To support business areas with day-to-day processing, reviewing, reporting, trading and issue resolution.

Accountabilities:

• Support various business areas with day-to-day initiatives including processing, reviewing, reporting, trading, and issue resolution.

• Collaboration with teams across the bank to align and integrate operational processes.

• Identification of areas for improvement and providing recommendations in operational processes.

• Development and implementation of operational procedures and controls to mitigate risks and maintain operational efficiency.

• Development of reports and presentations on operational performance and communicate findings to internal senior stakeholders.

• Identification of industry trends and developments to implement best practice in banking operations.

• Participation in projects and initiatives to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness.

Analyst Expectations:

• To meet the needs of stakeholders/ customers through operational excellence and customer service.

• Perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard.

• No people leadership roles at this grade.

• Execute work requirements as identified in processes and procedures, collaborating with and impacting on the work of team members.

• Identify escalation of policy breaches as required.

• Take responsibility for customer service and operational execution tasks.

• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you own or contribute to.

• Deliver your work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulation and codes of conduct.

• Gain and maintain an understanding of own role, how the team integrates to achieve overall objectives, alongside knowledge of the work of other teams within the function.

• Work within well-defined procedures that may involve a variety of work routines.

• Demonstrate an understanding of the procedures.

• Evaluate and select the appropriate alternatives from defined options.

• Make judgements based on the analysis of factual information.

• Build relationships with stakeholders and customers to identify and address their needs, in support of a smooth operating process, handling sensitive issues as required.