UBS India | Client Onboarding Specialist

Responsibilities

• You’ll join the Client Services and Lifecycle Management (CSLM) team in Hyderabad, providing shared KYC services across Investment Banking Operations globally, covering periodic reviews, client maintenance and offboarding.
• As part of the 4-eye Approver team, you’ll provide independent review and challenge over KYC files completed by analysts.
• You’ll work closely with Business, Client-Facing Teams, Financial Crime Prevention, Risk and Operations stakeholders across locations to ensure files are appropriately evidenced and compliant with applicable policies and procedures.
• Perform independent, risk-based 4-eye reviews of periodic KYC review (PKR) files completed by analysts.
• Validate client identity, ownership and control, activity and risk rating against documentation and approved sources.
• Review sanctions, PEP, adverse news and background checks, challenging rationale and escalating material issues.
• Ensure due diligence standards are applied (CIP, SDD, BDD, EDD) and evidence is complete, current and audit-ready.
• Provide clear, actionable feedback and referral comments to improve first-time-right quality and reduce rework.
• Manage cases to agreed SLAs, partnering with business, client-facing teams and Financial Crime Prevention for signoff.

Requirements

• Strong AML/KYC knowledge including CIP, SDD, BDD, EDD, sanctions/PEPs/adverse news and reputational risk.
• Ability to analyze ownership and control structures for complex legal entities and interpret client documentation.
• Sound risk-based judgment to approve, challenge, refer or escalate cases within delegated authority.
• Strong research, analytical and problem-solving skills to identify material risks and inconsistencies.
• Excellent attention to detail, ownership, integrity, confidentiality and stakeholder management.
• Experience with KYC workflow/case-management tools; ideally Fenergo, Flowable and Tableau.
• 3–5 years in KYC, AML, CDD, periodic reviews, onboarding or remediation in financial crime operations

UBS

UBS is a global wealth manager and the leading universal bank in Switzerland, which also provides diversified asset management solutions and focused investment banking capabilities. Headquartered in Zurich, the group is present in more than 50 markets around the world.

In India, UBS employs more than 15,000 people in Mumbai, Pune and Hyderabad. Alongside its client-facing businesses, large Group Functions teams there handle financial accounting and cost controlling, financial and regulatory reporting, capital reporting, treasury, valuations and product control, risk control and compliance for the wider group. UBS also runs India internship programmes for CA, CMA and CS students, and CA, CMA, CFA and MBA (Finance) profiles are common in its finance and risk roles.

• Industry: Global wealth management, banking and asset management
• Headquarters: Zurich, Switzerland (UBS Group AG)
• In India: A team of more than 15,000 people across Mumbai, Pune and Hyderabad, working across wealth management, investment banking, brokerage services and research, and in the group's finance, risk, compliance, operations and technology functions