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Company Overview

Offering a complete ecosystem of maritime services, including broking, finance, port services and research, Clarksons is at the heart of global shipping. Our unrivalled reach, expertise, and depth of experience, combined with leading research, enables us to partner with clients across every sector to meet the demands of the world’s rapidly evolving maritime, offshore, trade and energy markets. Building on our unique heritage and harnessing our insights to see further, faster, we work with our clients and communities to create strategies that have a positive impact on the industry and the world around us. Dedicated to excellence, it’s our people that drive success for our clients.

To understand more including day-to-day life at Clarksons, visit us at www.clarksons.com

Duties and Responsibilities include:

• Undertake and perform KYC Due Diligence on clients and counterparties as part of the team’s case queues (including on projects and complex clients) in line with the company’s policies and procedures in compliance with applicable sanctions and AML laws and applicable regulations, including establishing professional investor status.
• Support the team with the day-to-day management of work queues and queries.
• Keep and maintain an audit trail of actions undertaken.
• Assist in the execution of ad-hoc projects as required.
• Escalate issues in a timely manner to operational management and process owners.
• Participate in all mandatory online or classroom trainings on departmental or individual level.
• Maintain and keep up to date all relevant KYC data and records held within internal document repositories, databases/systems, progress trackers etc used by the KYC team, ensuring appropriate audit trail is captured.
• Perform periodic reviews for clients by confirming KYC data requirements, collecting relevant KYC.
• Assist to identify and analyse AML and sanctions risks associated with onboarding, maintenance and off-boarding of clients, paying special attention to any potential red flags, heightened risks and operational issues which should be escalated the Head of Client Onboarding, Compliance and Group General Counsel as appropriate.
• Answer KYC questionnaires provided to us by clients and accurately and effectively answering questions about our business and any sensitive due diligence questions.
• Work effectively with key stakeholders using strong influencing skills to ensure the mutually satisfactory resolution of key issues and that the respective responsibilities are understood, agreed, and escalated where required.
• Undertake additional / ad hoc duties as required in order to meet the needs of the business.
• Additional / ad hoc duties as required to meet the needs of the business.