Are you passionate about compliance and customer due diligence? Do you thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment? This is a role where you can grow professionally, contribute to the future of banking and  become part of our innovative and forward-thinking team!

Your role:

As a KYC Reseacher you will focus on identifying risks associated with new and existing clients through thorough research and due diligence. Your work helps protect the bank from reputational damage and ensures regulatory compliance.

Key Responsibilities:

Customer Due Diligence (CDD): Conduct thorough research and assessments to collect, verify, and analyze information about customers to comply with KYC (Know Your Customer) regulations. This includes gathering and verifying personal, business, and financial information for clients.

Risk Assessment: Research and Identify potential risks associated with clients and transactions, using tools such as sanctions lists, PEP (Politically Exposed Persons) screening, and other databases. Report and escalate high-risk clients or activities to the appropriate teams.

Client Reviews: Research and aasist for performance of periodic KYC reviews for existing clients to ensure they remain compliant with KYC and CDD policies. This includes the renewal and verification of documents, information, and transaction history.

Compliance with Regulations: Follow internal procedures and external regulations, ensuring all KYC checks are performed in line with local and international compliance standards.

Collaboration: Work closely with other departments such as Front Office, Legal, and Risk teams to ensure the timely resolution of issues related to client onboarding, due diligence, and transaction monitoring.

Reporting:  may assisti in Prepare reports detailing findings of KYC assessments and escalate potential issues or risks to senior management as required.

Who are we looking for?

A colleague open-minded, very curious by nature and passionate about your job. You are not afraid to handle various tasks at the same time and meet tight deadlines. You are thinking proactively and always a step ahead, finding solutions with both internal and external stakeholders. You are a cooperating person who listens and invests in the work & persons to achieve common goals. You must naturally think out of the box and navigate in a fast changing and complex environment by questioning the how & the why.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree or master's degree in law, Finance, Business Administration

What we offer.

• Becoming part of a dynamic team in an international working environment.
• Laptop and Mobile phone.
• Annual extra appreciation payment.
• Educational budget and access to Coursera trainings

Our organization:

Work at Garanti BBVA International
Garanti BBVA International (“GBI”) is a mid-sized European bank established in Amsterdam, the Netherlands since 1990 and serves to corporate and institutional and retail clientele. GBI is a wholly owned subsidiary of Turkiye Garanti Bankasi A.S. (Garanti) and has presence in Germany, Switzerland and Turkey. Our ultimate parent is BBVA. Aa dynamic “global boutique” bank, Garanti BBVA International offers fast, accurate, innovative, tailor-made and country-specific financial solutions in selected business lines though highly skilled and diverse talent management. We embrace creativity, are centered towards teamwork and oriented to create multicultural environment as we believe this to be a crucial element. Our vision is future-oriented and as a one big team GBI strives for corporate excellence and goal achievement. By joining our organization, you will find yourself constantly challenged and must be prone to apply out-of-the box thinking.

Life at Garanti BBVA International

GBI is a place for people who dream big and make their dream their goal. We look for people who will challenge the status quo in order to grow. We stand as one team, one family and together we are empowered to create our unique path, be agile, be curious and innovative. Strong partnerships ensure our success. Strong teams hold our foundation. We believe that diversity drives innovation and fosters personal development. We aim to create a working environment where employees are able to learn through support and coaching while contributing visibly to the success of bank.

Our Core Values

GBI is part of BBVA, an integrated and innovative financial institution that looks to the future, created with the mission of financing people’s dreams. That spirit continues to inspire us today and encourages us to transform people’s lives by helping them make the best decisions to fulfil their dreams. This mission is underpinned by our Purpose: “To bring the age of opportunity to everyone”. We live these values, which make us strong and allow us to achieve our purpose so we can keep creating opportunities.

Customer Comes First
We see our work from the customer's perspective, as we incorporate their point of view in every decision we make and always put their interests first. We meet our customer's needs in an agile way, overcoming any difficulties that arise.

Think Big
We want to amaze our customers with the best solutions to generate unique experiences. To achieve this, we set ambitious and inspirational challenges for ourselves, while questioning everything we do and posing new ways of doing things.

One Team
We are committed both to our individual role and the company's objectives as our own. We work as one team, trust our colleagues and break silos between units and hierarchical barriers.

Application:

If you are ready to join our team and contribute to the success of company, we encourage you to apply by submitting your resume and a cover letter. 

Online Application: Click on the link below to access our online application portal and submit your application.

We appreciate your interest in our organization and look forward to reviewing your application. Should you have any questions or require further information, please don't hesitate to reach out.

Please note that we do not appreciate any acquisition efforts for this vacancy by recruitment agencies.