KYC Advisor

PwC Services Portugal (PSP) is a joint venture between PwC Luxembourg and PwC Portugal, serving as an integral extension of PwC Luxembourg. Our growing team operates as an acceleration center supporting PwC Luxembourg’s clients. Leveraging a unique pool of talented professionals based in Matosinhos, our operating model ensures scalability, consistency, and quality in service delivery by integrating seamlessly into PwC Luxembourg’s operations and addressing talent attraction challenges sustainably.

PSP provides a range of services, including Assurance Audit (spanning all industries, with a particular focus on Real Estate and Private Equity), Broader Assurance Services, Tax (including Managed Services, Corporate Tax, VAT, and Accounting), and Advisory (specializing in the Global Fund Industry and Real Estate Valuation).

Your Mission

A career in Risk Management, within Internal Firm Services, will provide you with the opportunity to advance and foster integrity-based decision making and conduct by PwC professionals throughout our organisation. You will focus on promoting and monitoring compliance with applicable external laws and regulations as well as internal policies and procedures to help manage PwC’s regulatory, litigation, and reputational risk.

Our Compliance team is responsible for oversight of all Compliance activities by our PwC professionals. As part of the team, you will help promote and monitor compliance with applicable external and internal policies, laws and regulations and subsequently, manage PwC’s regulatory, litigation and reputational risk.

By being part of our team, you will, as KYC Advisor:

• Be responsible for the preparation of our AML files by:
• Collecting and saving all the public KYC documentation into our internal software and at the right place;
• Analysing KYC documents of clients during the client acceptance process or during the renewal acceptance process;
• Performing reputational checks (KYC) on our clients and analysing them to complete the KYC result section(s) in our software;
• Clearing hits in the screening tool and being able to draft the decisions to be validated by the AML team;
• Acting as a helpdesk contact for AML matters;
• Act as the end-to-end guide through the Client service desk and the execution pool by:
• Acting as the main contact and rendering quality support for all the Firm in the client acceptance process by solving/answering the day-to-day issues/queries;
• Analysing the different requests received and answering them in a timely, comprehensive and accurate manner;
• Ensuring that all the Firm get familiar with the various tools and processes through effective communication.
• Raise the blocking points to the experienced Advisor/Senior Advisor to obtain guidance/coaching.
• Be a key element to perform amendments in the relevant systems based on the exception reports;
• Do diverse administrative tasks.
  
  

About

Let’s talk about you. If you are/have ...

• Bachelor or equivalent in administration or in other relevant fields (Economics, Accounting, Finance or Law);
• Good knowledge of MS office (Word, Excel, etc.);
• Fluent in English (French is considered as an asset);
• A strong sense of confidentiality and can deal with sensitive information;
• The ability to multitask, you can work autonomously, and you are team spirited;
• Great writing skills and synthetic mind, strong organisational skills and you are proactive.
  
  

…You are the candidate we are looking for!