Northern Trust India | Senior KYC Analyst

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.
• Reviews and resolves more complex AML- or sanctions-related transactions, alerts, or cases that require interpretation of procedures and guidelines.
• Performs first-level investigation and analysis of potentially unusual activity using available systems, data, and standard practices.
• Validates customer, investor, or transaction information for adherence to AML, and sanctions requirements.
• Identifies control gaps, recurring exceptions, or processing issues and communicates findings to management.
• Serves as a point of reference for day-to-day operational questions within the team.
• Supports procedural updates, remediation activity, or process improvements within the assigned area.
• Participates in cross-functional deliverables, reporting, or project work related to AML compliance operations.
• Mentors less experienced team members and shares practical process knowledge.
• Facilitates timely escalation of higher-risk or more sensitive financial crime matters to the appropriate partners.
• Performs all duties according to established policies, procedures and regulatory requirements.
• Produces work that requires minimal revision and meets quality, timeliness, and documentation expectations.

Education/experience

• Working knowledge of AML, financial crimes, and sanctions processes, controls, and regulatory requirements.
• Understanding of operational workflows, record maintenance, and compliance expectations.
• Ability to perform reviews, reconciliations, and control activities with accuracy.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to identify inconsistencies or errors.
• Analytical skills to evaluate information and resolve routine to moderately complex issues.
• Ability to work independently with limited supervision while coordinating with team members.
• Effective communication skills for interacting with stakeholders and sharing updates.
• A college or university degree and/or some relevant work experience is required.

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