Senior KYC Analyst - Know Your Assets

About the role

Capitex, a specialist financial crime compliance firm covering AML, KYC, KYB, sanctions, transaction monitoring and fraud, is recruiting Senior KYC Analysts for a Know Your Assets managed service supporting a global asset manager's alternative investments business. This is the enhanced due diligence tier: you will handle complex, layered and opaque ownership structures, high-risk jurisdictions and sectors, and resolve PEP and adverse media exposure rather than just record it. The workplace is hybrid.

Key responsibilities

• Complete enhanced due diligence on complex counterparties, deals and investment structures
• Unpick ownership and control chains, including nominee, trust and multi-jurisdictional arrangements
• Resolve sanctions, PEP and adverse media exposure and decide whether risk is mitigated or must be escalated
• Produce written risk assessments with clear reasoning, identified risks and proposed mitigants
• Present findings and recommendations to the Pod Lead, QC and, where required, client risk functions
• Liaise directly with investment desks to obtain documentation and clarify structures
• Support and check the work of junior analysts and act as a technical point of reference
• Maintain complete audit trails and meet SLAs on complex cases

Required profile

• Solid experience in KYC, KYB, KYA or financial crime due diligence, including enhanced due diligence on complex cases
• Ability to write a risk assessment that reaches a conclusion and justifies it
• Strong understanding of ownership and control structures, source of funds and wealth, sanctions and PEP risk
• Confident conducting open source research and resolving ambiguous or conflicting findings
• Good judgement on what constitutes a genuine red flag
• Strong written and verbal communication

Required skills

• Desirable: experience in asset management, private equity, real estate, infrastructure or private debt
• Desirable: experience with complex or high-risk portfolios and high-risk jurisdictions and sectors
• Desirable: familiarity with the Money Laundering Regulations and FCA expectations
• Desirable: experience with World-Check, LexisNexis or comparable screening tools

What we offer

• Long-term engagement on a multi-year programme with a global asset manager
• Competitive day rate, confirmed at offer stage
• Genuinely complex casework rather than high-volume checklist processing
• Direct exposure to investment desks and client risk functions
• Ongoing pipeline of financial crime work through Capitex on completion