KYC Team Lead with German
Tide is a UK-founded fintech business financial platform providing banking and financial-management services to small businesses and sole traders.
About Tide
Tide Platform Limited operates Tide, offering business accounts, payments, accounting and tax tools, savings, payroll, and business finance. Tide is FCA-authorised for electronic-money and payment services and is not itself a bank; its business bank accounts are provided through partner banks including ClearBank.
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About the Role
You will lead the daily work of KYX analysts, oversee CDD and EDD reviews, resolve escalations, and act as a KYC and AML subject-matter expert. You will mentor analysts, coordinate with other departments, improve procedures, track KPIs and OKRs, and implement policy changes.
Requirements
- Previous KYC experience
- Proven KYC team leadership experience
- Knowledge of merchant risk and AML
- Excellent English communication skills
- Customer service skills
- Data analysis skills
- Excel
- German proficiency
- Ability to manage multiple workstreams
Responsibilities
- Lead daily workflow assignment and ensure timely completion
- Manage a team of KYX analysts
- Serve as a subject-matter expert in KYC, corporate due diligence, and AML risk
- Resolve analyst issues and stakeholder escalations
- Lead CDD and EDD reviews for members at all risk levels
- Mentor analysts and remove blockers
- Coordinate with other departments and team leads
- Suggest and execute procedural improvements
- Manage remediation activities
- Track individual and team KPIs and OKRs
- Implement changes to KYC and AML policies
Benefits
- 25 days of paid annual leave
- 3 paid days off for volunteering or L&D activities
- Extended maternity and paternity leave
- Personal L&D budget
- Additional health and dental insurance
- Mental wellbeing platform
- Multisports card
- Food vouchers
- Office snacks, food, and drinks
- WFH equipment allowance
- Flexible working from home
- Sabbatical leave
- Transportation bonus for office commuting
