Krystian Niemiec

Key Accountabilities:

*Review KYC profiles for sign off in accordance with the Group Policy, regulatory requirements and Sign off authority,

*Perform research via internal and external sources if required and analyze documentation according to regulatory CIP/KYC requirements,

*Analyze the risk associated with the client in accordance with regulatory requirements,

*Recommend/undertake further due diligence where required. Refer adverse findings to SME’s & Team Leads.

*Ensure a conclusion is reached with regard to risk, additional due diligence,

*Provide knowledge advices and ensure the green lit status is kept by the KYCS Analysts,

*Provide knowledge advices and ensure the green lit status is kept by the KYCS Analysts,

*Keep the quality and production KPI on an expected level.

*Assist stakeholders by being proactive during crisis situations or urgent requests,

*Demonstrate just-in-time, high quality approach to both business partners and stakeholders; ensure high standard of ethics are always adhered to.

*Take active participation in meetings, business calls,

*Act proactively and independently in order to meet business expectations and providing relevant feedback to various types of departments across HSBC Group and clients,

*Work effectively in a pressurized and time sensitive environment.

*Be highly organized and has strong sense of urgency,

*Take the lead to pro-actively own the end-to-end process.

*Ensure total oversight and detailed understanding of individual CDG cases, maintaining transparency and collaborative working approach with other functions,

*Demonstrate the ability to come up with out of the box solutions to resolve the complex issues in the profiles.

* Ensuring that risk details (name, address, regulatory oversight, ownership type, products offered) are complete, accurate and current.
* Complete appropriate due diligence based on product, country of domicile and booking location.
* Establish ownership structure and research individuals making decisions for the entity.
* Liaise with central screening team to source, escalate, filter and approve negative media and AML/sanctions alerts.
* Research and complete KYC templates (Profile, list of accounts, AML risk assessment and call report) as required by policy.
* Partner closely with the sales and compliance teams at all stages of the KYC process. Ensure that these teams are prioritising correctly to fit in with KYC team deliverables.
* Meet personal and renewal targets for throughput and quality.
* Escalate bottlenecks and barriers to completion to line manager.
* Manage the client on-boarding (including KYC) process
* Review all KYC Records for accuracy / completeness / compliance with AML, CIP and sponsorship requirements; Communicate required actions to staff
* Meet with business to conduct workload planning, review status of key on-boardings and prioritize open requests
* Resolve escalated issues from various stakeholders
* Liaise with various groups like Legal, Compliance, Credit ,and Operations to remove roadblocks impeding the on-boarding process on-behalf of team
* Provide guidance and oversight to onboarding team with respect to policies, priorities and procedures
* Liaise with team leads within region and across regions to facilitate knowledge sharing
* Identify and execute process improvements and provide SME support on key process and technology initiatives
* Setting up the KYC template and establishing correct background definition (including determining customer type)
* A knowledge of compliance/anti Money Laundering rules
* Experience with investigations, business research and examination

* Processioning periodic KYC due diligence reviews on the required quality and detail
on a timely basis,
* Performing research via internal and external sources, gathering and analy sing the
documentation in accordance with regulatory CIP/KYC requirements.
* Analysing the AML risk associated with the client: monitoring and capturing various
risk factors in context of AML/CTF Risk
* Indexing, processing and uploading documentation into internal systems
* Analysing publicy available information in the context of risk related to money laundering, reputational risk, regulatory allegations and other risk factors which need to be identified in line with US regulatory requirements.