Mission Overview:
This is a consultancy mission at a client site, where you will represent Keystone Solutions as an Expert Business Analyst KYC. As a Keystone Solutions consultant, you will be hired to work on client projects, bringing your expertise to dynamic environments and contributing to impactful transformation initiatives.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the end-to-end analysis and implementation of KYC regulatory changes, ensuring compliance with EU/local regulations (AML/CTF), client group policies, and audit requirements.
- Interpret regulatory texts (such as EU AML directives and Belgian KYC laws) and translate them into actionable business and technical requirements, validated with Compliance, Legal, and Risk teams.
- Define and prioritize KYC-specific requirements (including customer due diligence, UBO identification, sanctions screening) and use cases for IT systems, ensuring full traceability to regulatory sources.
- Design and optimize KYC business processes to address regulatory changes, ensuring scalability across branches, mid-offices, and brands.
- Collaborate with Product Owners, Architects, and IT teams to translate regulatory requirements into technical specifications, metrics, and controls for KYC systems (such as transaction monitoring tools).
- Drive requirements traceability from regulation to implementation, conducting impact analyses for policy changes (such as new sanctions lists and risk methodology updates).
- Lead quality reviews of designs, prototypes, and test plans to certify compliance with regulatory and business requirements.
- Manage the Business Analyst workstream autonomously, including planning, risk mitigation, and reporting progress to senior stakeholders.
- Serve as the KYC Subject Matter Expert for cross-functional teams and external vendors (such as KYC tool providers).
- Mentor junior Business Analysts on KYC regulatory analysis and banking-specific requirements engineering.
Requirements:
- At least 8 years of relevant experience as a business analyst in a regulatory environment, with significant expertise in the KYC domain.
- Strong ability to document and visualize KYC processes (customer onboarding, risk assessment, monitoring) using standard modeling techniques.
- Proficient in requirements management tools (JIRA, Confluence) to track regulatory changes and maintain compliance documentation.
- Skilled in MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Visio) for creating clear process documentation and regulatory reports.
- Familiar with KYC systems and tools used in banking (such as customer screening, transaction monitoring, case management).
- Experience with testing KYC processes to ensure they meet regulatory requirements.
- Ability to analyze regulatory texts and translate them into clear business requirements for IT and operations teams.
- Deep understanding of KYC workflow processes, including customer onboarding, due diligence, risk assessment, and ongoing monitoring in a banking context.
- Proven experience in the KYC domain within a project context, including implementation of regulatory changes, policy updates, and system enhancements (not purely operational).
- Strong affinity with IT concepts and systems, enabling effective collaboration with technical teams, architects, and vendors to align business needs with IT solutions.
- Experience working in a scaled agile environment, including Squad/Chapter/Tribe structures, with the ability to adapt to evolving priorities and regulatory deadlines.
- Familiarity with agile methodologies (such as Scrum, Kanban) and requirements management practices to ensure traceability and compliance in KYC projects.
- Ability to bridge business and IT, translating regulatory and business requirements into clear, actionable deliverables for development and testing teams.
- Previous experience within a major banking environment is a plus.
- Masters degree or equivalent.
- Strong written and spoken communication skills in Dutch or French, and English.
Soft Skills:
- Analytical and conceptual thinking to interpret complex KYC regulations and translate them into practical business solutions.
- Strong negotiation and persuasion skills to align stakeholders on regulatory requirements and priorities.
- Structured and methodical approach to manage KYC projects with clear traceability from regulation to implementation.
- Self-driven and autonomous, capable of leading KYC initiatives with minimal supervision while meeting tight regulatory deadlines.
- Problem-solving mindset to identify gaps in KYC processes and propose compliant, risk-based solutions.
- Quality-focused with meticulous attention to detail to ensure accuracy in regulatory documentation and compliance evidence.
- Goal-oriented with a results-driven approach to deliver KYC projects on time and in line with audit and regulatory expectations.
- Adaptable and resilient in a dynamic regulatory environment, open to evolving KYC policies and agile ways of working.
- Excellent stakeholder management to engage with Compliance, Legal, IT, and external vendors on KYC-related matters.
- Strong communication skills to articulate complex regulatory requirements clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
Consultancy at Keystone Solutions: Your Advantages
- As a consultant, you will work on-site at the client, representing Keystone Solutions and bringing our core values to every engagement.
- Experience a wide variety of dynamic projects and challenges across different client environments, accelerating your professional growth.
- Benefit from turbo-charged learning opportunities and broad exposure to new technologies, methodologies, and regulatory frameworks.
- Join a team with skyrocketing ambition, where your career development is a top priority and you are empowered to reach new heights.
- Being a “K-Stone” means embodying our values of integrity, excellence, and collaboration in every mission.
Work Location and Flexibility:
- Work is based in Brussels, with an expectation of 50% on-site presence and 50% homeworking.
If you are ready to tackle technical and strategic challenges in a dynamic consultancy environment, apply today at Keystone Solutions Career Portal.
