WKO Analyst - Middle Office - Colombia

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

As a WKO Analyst, you will be responsible for requesting and analyzing documents from clients to initiate the KYC process, which aims to identify potential risks related to anti-money laundering prevention.

We are looking for someone with excellent communication skills, who can clearly explain our requirements to clients, participate in discussions with the business to inform them about the status of their clients, and interact with other stakeholders in the bank's process, such as credit, compliance, and legal teams.

Strong analytical skills are required to thoroughly understand our internal policies and procedures, as well as to interpret documents and verify that they meet both regulatory and internal bank requirements.

Job responsibilities:

• Participate of the process of onboarding and renewing clients, starting in the creation in the system, collecting and analyzing documents, controlling the pendencies until the final approval.
• Execute KYC Client outreach as required by different line of businesses.
• Teamwork with other supporting areas such as Legal, Compliance, Internal Controls, Technology, Client Services, as well as with other Regional and Global Client Onboarding teams. Provide operational support to supply audit/compliance/regulatory with documentation/analysis.
• Keep informed of any changes to processes and procedures and regulatory change.
• Provide support and facilitate KYC process for multiple line of businesses. as per the local and global policies.
• Liaise with WKO Onboarding and reference data hubs.
• Identify and apply regulatory requirements of the different applicable jurisdictions and internal procedures.
• Monitoring of client documentation required and escalate outstanding documentation and approval requests.
• General understanding of and execute AML (Anti money laundering) policies and internal procedures, in accordance with local and global principles.
• Study of legal and commercial documents, in order to understand client's activity, structure, and risk associated.
• Verification of existing clients to the Latam local systems and Global Reference Data systems, considering current policies and evidencing client's information in the record.

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Finance, Engineering or related.
• Fluent in English. Spanish and Portuguese is a plus
• Minimum 2 years' experience with KYC and local documentation requirements for onboarding clients is desirable. Strong partnership and coordination skills.
• Prior experience with deadlines for time sensitive tasks.
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.
• Word, PowerPoint and Excel skills as a plus.

• Fluent in Portuguese is a plus