Senior onboarding process and solution specialist in City of London

WorldFirst is a subsidiary of Ant International, a global digital payment and financial services leader. Through the World Account, WorldFirst is meeting the needs of SMEs engaged in international trade or business, both online via marketplaces or websites, as well as offline to support importers and exporters. This includes global collection (receiving payments), making payments, currency conversion, risk management to help WorldFirst customers reduce costs, improve turnover efficiency to generate more revenue and sales, and quickly capture global business opportunities. WorldFirst serves one million customers worldwide and is connected to over 100 marketplaces.

WorldFirst is shaking up the financial services industry - our mission as a FinTech is ‘to make it easy to do business anywhere’. Our Strategic Account Management team is responsible for driving commercial growth across existing accounts, as well as helping prospect new ones too.

WorldFirst's Onboarding team is responsible for the successful registration and accreditation of all UK and EEA customers, including design and development of end-to-end onboarding process and the management of onboarding operation team. The team is part of the International Risk Management to ensure we can onboard our customers quickly, efficiently and compliantly. Specializing in CDD and KYC, the Onboarding team interacts daily with Product, Tech and Customer facing teams to enhance customer experience from the very start of their journey with WorldFirst.

• Design end to end onboarding flow, identify risks within onboarding journey, provide risk remediation solution, and drive the implementation of product solution and operation efficiency.
• Design optimization plan of the client-facing portal to promote better customer onboarding experience and higher conversion rate.
• Identify vendor/in-house built risk solution for onboarding journey, drive the integration with product and tech team to achieve risk mitigation and compliance.
• Work with different risk owners and stakeholders within WorldFirst, own the continuous upgrade of the onboarding SOP.
• Manage a team of onboarding operation specialists, and work closely with Sales & Customer facing teams to complete thorough CDD & KYC/KYB reviews to seamlessly onboard business customers.
• Verify KYC/KYB documents, ownership structures, payment flows, and UBO information.
• Conduct clear and consistent periodic account reviews of existing client’s information for ongoing KYC purposes.
• Communicate with clients via phone, email or chat - where needed - to facilitate a positive customer onboarding experience.
• Provide guidance to customer facing teams with regards to the onboarding policies.

Depends on your previous experience and capabilities, we can offer either Individual contributor role or a team lead role.

Our ideal candidate:

• Working knowledge of KYC & CDD regulations and processes.
• Previous experience of implementation of end-to-end onboarding journey, especially on onboarding flow design, product solution, vendor integration and risk solution.
• Demonstrable analytical and problem-solving skills, excellent attention to detail.
• Proactive, organised and highly efficient - able to work independently through periods of high volumes.
• Ability to balance commercial drivers and risk management.
• Work from office minimum 3 days per week/in line with business requirements.
• Minimum 5 years of customer onboarding experience, preferably in Fintech or payment services.
• Ideally degree educated/equivalent professional qualifications.
• Business-level proficiency in English; Chinese language skills would be a strong advantage.

This is not a pure onboarding operation role - we need the candidate to have knowledge to drive the continuous upgrade of current onboarding product solution.

WorldFirst is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are passionate about creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where our people feel that they belong and can reach their full potential. We believe our differences are our strengths and are committed to recruiting, developing and retaining a team from a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.

We encourage applications from all individuals regardless of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, and marriage and civil partnership.