TKYC Analyst

Avantia is an AI-first legal and compliance services provider to many of the world’s leading asset managers, private equity firms, and institutional investors. We combine specialist sector expertise with AI-powered workflows to help clients move faster, manage risk, and scale globally.

As a Transaction KYC Analyst, you will be working alongside asset managers’ legal, compliance, and investment teams to help bring complex private equity deals to completion. You will be responsible for conducting Know Your Customer (KYC) analysis and reviews on behalf of our clients, with a particular focus on complex debt, equity, real estate, and infrastructure transactions across different jurisdictions and sectors. You will support our clients' investment risk management processes and help ensure that their deals comply with applicable anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing regulations, internal policies, and jurisdictional requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Working closely with the clients' legal & compliance department and/or investment teams to understand transaction structures.
• Liaising with the clients and relevant counterparties to request key materials and information by email or teleconference.
• Reviewing and controlling structure to identify counterparties, including fund structures, SPVs, partnerships, trusts, and other complex entities common in asset management.
• Upon obtaining satisfactory information and materials, carrying out KYC risk analysis with a focus on money laundering, bribery and corruption, financial crime, and reputational risk.
• Collaborating with clients' Legal and Compliance teams to ensure their deals are compliant with relevant regulatory requirements and internal policies.
• Conducting legal and factual research, drafting and updating know-how materials, and assisting with other business development and practice management tasks.

Essential Requirements

• Relevant experience, including working in the legal, compliance, and/or risk management sector as an intern, part-time employee, or full-time employee.
• Knowledge of legal administration, document drafting, legal compliance, and regulatory compliance.
• High level of attention to detail and analytical ability.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities under tight deadlines.
• Passionate about building a career in the legal and compliance sector.

Desirable Expertise

• Past work experience within a law firm, legal services provider, business intelligence provider, or in the legal or compliance department of a financial institution or asset manager.
• Experience with KYC tools and screening platforms (e.g., World-Check, Dow Jones or similar).
• Familiarity with private and public investments, including different fund structures and use of offshore jurisdictions (e.g., Cayman, Luxembourg).
• Knowledge of Transactional Compliance.

Qualifications

• Degree in law, diploma in paralegal studies, or a related subject area.
• Professional certifications such as ICA, ACAMS, or equivalent are a plus.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday + UK Bank Holidays + 1 Day off for your birthday.
• Remote first (anywhere in the UK) or choose to work from our lovely London Bridge office whenever you wish.
• Private healthcare or the option to use the budget to be reimbursed for other wellness activities of your choice.
• Annual subscription to your choice of Calm or Headspace.
• Early finish Fridays in the summer.
• Pension scheme (enhanced after 1 year service).
• Enhanced family friendly policies after 1 year.