Are you passionate about compliance and customer due diligence? Do you thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment? As a KYC Specialist at Garanti BBVA International (GBI), you will play a pivotal role in ensuring regulatory compliance and safeguarding our reputation. Your expertise in Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulations, customer assessments, and transactional due diligence will help protect our clients and support GBI’s mission of excellence. With opportunities to work in an international setting, enjoy a collaborative team 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 Specialist you have the expertise to perform high-quality customer assessments. By acting in a critical and customer-oriented way, KYC/CDD is the pivotal role of the bank in complying with the laws and preventing reputational damage.

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform activities like collection of information, identification & verification of relevant parties including clients and execution of the Customer Due Diligence procedures in order to be able to onboard or reject clients.
• Perform the periodic or event-driven reviews of clients according to GBI’s CDD procedures.
• Perform Transactional Due Diligence according to GBI’s procedures and acquire the necessary information from clients in cooperation with the Front Offices. This will enable you to understand the rationale of the transaction and mitigate risks related to these transactions.
• In case you encounter an unusual transaction (pattern), you immediately take the necessary escalation steps according to GBI’s procedures.
• Make sure that all data inputted are correct, consistent and complete.
• Follow up periodic or ad-hoc reports and exception lists to make sure that all customer and transactional data is actual and compliant (Expired account opening, dormant accounts, open exceptions e.g.)
• Perform required client identification reviews and you perform first level of elimination of false positives or things that stand out (in)directly.
• Safeguard the classified information of our clients in line with GBI’s information security and data protection rules.
• You make every effort to prevent incidents, compliance related breaches and your focus is on “getting things done for our clients in a sustainable way that remains compliant with regulations”.
• Collaborate proactively with your colleagues and inform them about status of cases and identify and flag issues. You escalate constructive and timely.
• You contribute to a positive working environment and give and request feedback to uphold a positive collaboration.
• Your performance (evaluation) is based on individual contribution.

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.
Skills/Qualifications:

• Advanced knowledge of AML regulations, CAMS certification
• TDD and Fraud related activities.
• Familiar with industry related directives such as MIFID, EMIR, FATCA and CRS, Wwft Experience in conducting customer due diligence, Regulatory Reporting
• Excellent command of English, Dutch or other European language is a pre

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.
• 30 vacation days.
• 13th Month.
• 8% holiday payment
• Laptop and Mobile phone.
• Annual extra appreciation payment.
• Pension Plan - Defined contribution scheme
• Collective Health Insurance – discount on additional health insurance.
• 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.