Senior Specialist KYC (all genders) - limited contract
1. Location: Vienna
2. Working hours: Full-time
3. Occupational Area: Banking Operations
4. Company: Erste Group Bank AG
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6. Health Center
7. Employee benefits
8. Learning & Development
9. Employee Share Program
Erste Group was founded in 1819 as the first Austrian savings bank and today it is one of the largest banking groups in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). As an attractive employer, Erste Group offers interesting career opportunities in an international environment.
We in Daily Banking Services want to provide to our clients the best digital experience, which is seamless, convenient, fast and compliant. We aim to digitalize all our client back-office processes to the core, from onboarding to offboarding, regardless of channels.
The unit Customer and KYC Services is a newly set-up unit in the area of daily banking services. The team is responsible for the onboarding of Corporate and FI (incl. NonBFI) clients from a KYC perspective and is the main contact for the client, account management and compliance in this very sensitive and important initial phase of the client relationship. Besides the onboarding the team conducts regular and ad-hoc KYC reviews and runs the group-wide centralized FI onboarding and review process. Next to the KYC experts, the team is also responsible for the group wide counterparty master data management, as well as has business ownership of the local customer data base (KDB) and supports with its expertise on counterparty data various stakeholders in the entire Group.
This position has a limited period until 31.12.2026!
Your Tasks
10. Monitoring of the regular KYC/AML/MiFID/FATCA review process and data remediation
11. Initiate the set-up of clients in the customer data base and in relevant trading systems and trigger the account opening process
12. Ensure that client data is maintained accurately and kept updated
13. Act as a senior counterpart in onboarding the customer with respective business lines, external lawyers and all relevant stakeholders (products, risk, legal, compliance)
14. Act as an in-house expert for customer life cycle using digital workflow engines
15. Participate in internal Erste Group Bank AG and Group wide Projects in order to streamline processes and digitalize the onboarding or review journeys
16. Ensures overall adherence to compliance requirements, high quality standards and timelines
17. Guide and develop junior colleagues
Your Background
18. At least five years background in the banking industry, with a strong focus on client support, compliance or operations ideally in an AML role or deal execution department with focus on client onboarding
19. University degree in economics, law or banking & finance
20. Exceptional knowledge and understanding of KYC requirements
21. Customer orientation
22. Great communication skills and you love to interact with people in an intercultural and diverse environment
23. Act self-accountable and solution-oriented with hands-on mindset
24. You have a positive, entrepreneurial and agile spirit and you like to accept challenges
25. Fluent in English and German
Our Offer
26. We are a team who lives and breathes digital transformation, and likes to push boundaries to the next level
27. We are open minded, supportive and always ready to go the extra mile for our customers
28. We take care of your personal wellbeing, career development, and we actively support your educational needs
29. Discover and enjoy the of Erste Group
30. The minimum wage for this full-time position in accordance with the collective agreement with complete fulfillment of the functional profile is EUR 49.772,-- gross per year. But this is just a formality - we would be happy to talk about your actual salary in person!
31. We offer our employees the opportunity to divide their hours between working from home and at the office.
32. We consider the diversity of our employees as key to innovation and success. As employer we are proud to offer everyone equal chances, irrespective of age, skin colour, religious belief, gender, sexual orientation or origin.