Company Mission
Payhawk is a leading global spend management solution for scaling businesses. Headquartered in London and combining company cards, reimbursable expenses and accounts payable into a single product; its future-facing technology enables finance teams to control and automate company spending at scale.
The Payhawk customer base includes fast-growing and mature multinational companies in 32 countries including LuxAir and Wagestream. With offices in New York, London, Berlin, Munich , Barcelona, Paris, Amsterdam, Vilnius and Sofia; Payhawk is backed by renowned investors such as Lightspeed Venture Partners, Greenoaks, QED Investors, Bek Ventures and Eleven Ventures.
Our values include supporting flat hierarchies, taking ownership and responsibility, seeking and providing feedback, managing constructive critique, and speaking our minds. We understand that the best ideas don’t all come from the same place, so we encourage diversity and inclusion in all areas of our work.
The future of fintech is about more than money, and we believe in work-life balance, continual learning, and empowered teams. We’re also on a journey to measure and improve our environmental and social impact. From virtual cards to digital subscriptions, our software and automation help take paper out of the equation for our customers, too.
We’re changing the world of payments, and we’re looking for an exceptional team to help us.
About the Role
The Junior KYC Onboarding Analyst will collaborate closely with the KYC Manager, Director of Compliance and relevant stakeholders. This role includes executing the company's strategy in alignment with regulatory standards and industry benchmarks. The primary objective is to perform customer due diligence, implement Payhawk’s KYB/KYC protocols, evaluate documents and data submitted for corporate customer applications, detect fraudulent activities during onboarding through client screening, and address any additional requests as needed.
Responsibilities
- Review corporate client applications and perform due diligence of B2B customers from all markets.
- Monitor and evaluate customer verification documents. Support the due diligence process - initial and ongoing. Ensure complete and appropriate documentation is maintained.
- PEP, Sanctions and adverse media screening of companies, parent entities and individual stakeholders.
- Report to MLRO any information related to potentially fraudulent activity.
- Review internal and external screening alerts and escalations for suspicious or fraudulent activity.
- Maintain a complete understanding of operational business processes, policies, and systems.
- Initiate and manage document collection requests with corporate clients, ensuring timely follow-up and resolution of outstanding items within defined SLAs.
- Liaise cross-functionally with Sales, Compliance, and Operations teams to facilitate smooth client onboarding and ensure KYB cases progress within expected timelines.
- Utilise AI-driven onboarding and compliance tools to support document verification, entity screening, and risk assessment in accordance with internal governance standards.
Requirements
- At least 1 year of work experience as an AML/Onboarding Analyst.
- Expertise in corporate structures analysis and international corporate documentation review.
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills in English.
- Ownership and entrepreneurship, positive attitude, energy, openness to feedback, comfortable with a fast-changing environment.
- A great initiative taker, ability to initiate projects through ideas that have a high business contribution.
- Team-oriented with strong interpersonal skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in Law or any related field
Company Benefits
- 30 days holiday paid leave
- Competitive compensation package
- Exchange policy to another Payhawk office (London, Berlin, Barcelona, Paris, Amsterdam and Vilnius)
- Flexible working hours and opportunity to work from home
- Regular team-wide events
- Additional Medical care
- Company office massages
- Opportunity to use the Payhawk product with monthly commuting allowance
Payhawk is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.
