Northern Trust India | KYC Periodic Review Team Lead

Duties & responsibilities

• As a Northern Trust partner, you will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture, which has a strong history of financial strength and stability.
• Manages the day-to-day deliverables of an AML investigations or compliance team while maintaining functional subject matter expertise.
• Provides regular coaching, feedback, and performance management support to team members.
• Performs or oversees quality checks on completed investigation reports, reviews, or testing outputs.
• Develops and analyzes management reporting, metrics, or trend analysis for stakeholders and governance forums.
• Participates in audit, regulatory, and committee interactions as needed and may interface with internal audit or regulators.
• Resolves operational problems and establishes approaches that help the team achieve quality, timeliness, and control objectives.
• Performs all duties according to established policies, procedures and regulatory requirements.
• Organizes team workflow, assigns tasks, sets short-term priorities, and monitors completion of all work.
• Acts as subject matter expert for AML investigations, sanctions, or related compliance processes.
• Recommends procedural or control changes that improve delivery, efficiency, or risk mitigation.
• Expanded knowledge of AML, financial crimes, and sanctions operations and applicable regulations.

Education/experience

• Understanding of team workflows, service delivery requirements, and operational priorities.
• Ability to supervise staff, assign work, and manage day-to-day activities.
• Strong problem-solving skills for resolving routine operational and technical issues.
• Ability to monitor performance, quality, and timeliness of team outputs.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills for managing and developing team members.
• Knowledge of regulations and controls related to AML, financial crime, and sanctions, and the ability to ensure team adherence.
• Typically 3+ years of relevant experience required; prior experience providing day-to-day work direction, coordinating team activities, or supervising staff is preferred.

Northern Trust

Northern Trust Corporation is a US financial services company founded in Chicago in 1889 and still headquartered there; its shares trade on Nasdaq under the symbol NTRS. It works for institutional investors, corporations and wealthy families and individuals, and its business spans asset servicing (custody, fund administration and fund accounting for pension funds, asset managers, insurers and other institutions), wealth management, asset management through Northern Trust Asset Management, and banking. The company calls its employees "partners".

In India, Northern Trust works from Bengaluru and from Pune, where its office in Kharadi opened in 2016. These teams support the global business in asset servicing and wealth management operations: fund accounting and NAV calculation for mutual, hedge and private equity funds, transfer agency, trade settlements, reconciliations, anti-money-laundering checks and client reporting, alongside risk, finance and technology roles. Work of this kind suits B.Com, M.Com, MBA (Finance), CA, CFA and ACCA profiles.

• Industry: Financial services — asset servicing, wealth management, asset management and banking
• Headquarters: Chicago, Illinois, USA
• In India: Offices in Pune and Bengaluru