Senior Risk Investigator – Kyc

Senior Risk Investigator – Kyc

Requirements

• 5 – 10 years of experience related to KYC, Risk Investigations, AML, or Sanctions
• 2+ years of experience building programs or processes
• Strong understanding of Financial Services (or any other highly regulated) environments
• Experience in managing customer-facing queues to support excessive caseloads and/or handle customer escalations as required
• Experience with KYC Verification Software (such as Alloy, MidDesk, Socure, etc)
• Highly motivated self-starter, comfortable working within a high risk environment under minimal supervision
• Accountable for accuracy of information gathered while maintaining quality control standards
• Love problem solving and making teams, products, and processes more efficient
• Curious about the US banking system, startups, and ecommerce companies

Responsibilities

• Partner cross-functionally with Compliance, Legal, Product, Risk Strategy and additional groups to enhance Mercury’s ongoing due diligence program and drive efficiency using data and technology
• Contribute to the development of Quality Control (QC) and Quality Assurance (QA) processes for existing and new controls
• Draft and refine desktop procedures for various KYC/EDD controls
• Assist in the creation of metric dashboards to monitor control performance and remediation status
• Assist in KYC Refresh of current Client population as needed to ensure their information remains up to date
• Conduct KYC/EDD reviews of new and existing clients
• Handle to Respond for Information (RFI) requests from wire partners on organizations and transactions
• Minimize Mercury’s sanctions exposure and reputational risk through the review and adjudication of sanctions, PEP, and Adverse Media alerts
• Identify opportunities to reduce unnecessary volumes through false positive rule proposals

Preferred Qualifications

• Interest in the US banking system, startups, and ecommerce companies