KYC Analyst

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Job Summary: KYC Analyst contributes to the success of the KYC & AML Sustainment Unit within Commercial Banking by ensuring compliance with regulations and internal policies. Key Highlights: 1. Promotes a customer-centric culture. 2. Supports Corporate Banking in onboarding activities. 3. Conducts customer due diligence and risk management. Request ID: 269039 Thank you for your interest in joining Scotiabank Peru—we truly appreciate your application. We are seeking talented individuals who wish to grow and help achieve our organization’s goals. Wishing you great success throughout this process! **KYC Analyst** * **Division**: COMMERCIAL AND INSTITUTIONAL BANKING * **Unit**: KYC/AML \& SUSTAINMENT * **Level**: 5\.1 * **Contract Type**: INDEFINITE **Purpose**: Contributes to the overall success of the KYC \& AML Sustainment Unit within Commercial and Institutional Banking in Peru, ensuring that specific individual objectives, plans, and initiatives are implemented or achieved in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives. Ensures all activities conducted are carried out in accordance with applicable internal rules, policies, and procedures. **Requirements**: * Education: Completed university degree in Industrial Engineering, Business Administration, Economics, or related fields. * Preferred experience: 1 \- 2 years in the financial system, preferably serving the corporate sector within Risk, AML, Operations, Back Office, or related teams. * Specific knowledge: Banking products; basic understanding of AML regulations. * IT skills: Microsoft Office (intermediate level, advanced Excel), database handling (preferred). * Advanced English proficiency. **Responsibilities**: * Promotes a customer-centric culture to deepen client relationships and leverage the Bank’s extensive networks, systems, and expertise. * Provides support to Corporate Banking during the onboarding process, primarily assisting clients directly in completing the affiliation form (BASA), validating information quality, and identifying additional processes required under AML/KYC policy. * Executes Trigger Event processes, ensuring timely updates to customer KYC files. * Conducts customer due diligence—including watchlist screening, negative news searches, and other relevant checks—to ensure suitability and mitigate operational, regulatory, reputational, and financial risks. * Collaborates with Relationship Managers (RMs) in collecting and analyzing Customer Knowledge (KYC) information to ensure proper understanding of client activity and appropriate AML risk rating—both at onboarding and ongoing stages. * Supports preparation of RAW forms used for periodic (annual) reviews of high-risk customers and meets stipulated deadlines for Enhanced Due Diligence per global policy. * Maintains constant communication with support areas to ensure onboarding process efficiency, optimal end-to-end response times, and a satisfactory client experience. * Understands the Bank’s risk culture and how risk appetite must be considered in daily activities and decisions. * Actively performs effective and efficient operations within respective areas while ensuring suitability, compliance, and effectiveness of daily business controls to meet obligations aimed at mitigating operational risk, regulatory non-compliance risk, money laundering and terrorist financing risk, and conduct risk—including responsibilities established under the Operational Risk Management Framework, Regulatory Compliance Risk Management Framework, International Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Manual, and Business Conduct Guidelines. * Fosters a high-performance environment and implements a workforce strategy that attracts, retains, develops, and motivates the team; to achieve this, promotes an inclusive workplace, communicates vision, values, and business strategy, and manages succession and development planning for the team. Location(s): Peru : Lima : San Isidro Thank you for your interest; however, only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted. \*\* At Scotiabank Peru Group, we value the unique skills, experiences, and perspectives each person brings. We champion inclusion with passion and respect. If you believe we could provide you with a reasonable accommodation during the selection process, please indicate so when registering your details on our platform or when contacting our Talent Attraction team. We are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive, accessible, and safe environment where everyone is welcome.