Senior Specialist, Client Onboarding/Transitions/Conversions/Know Your Client

Overview

About BNY Mellon

BNY Mellon is a global investments company dedicated to helping its clients manage and service their financial assets throughout the investment lifecycle. Whether providing financial services for institutions, corporations or individual investors, BNY Mellon delivers informed investment and wealth management and investment services in 35 countries. As of Dec. 31, 2021, BNY Mellon had $46.7 trillion in assets under custody and/or administration, and $2.4 trillion in assets under management. BNY Mellon can act as a single point of contact for clients looking to create, trade, hold, manage, service, distribute or restructure investments. BNY Mellon is the corporate brand of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (NYSE: BK). Additional information is available on www.bnymellon.com . Follow us on Twitter @BNYMellon or visit our newsroom at www.bnymellon.com/newsroom for the latest company news.

• Independently onboards clients into the system, opens and closes accounts and handles transitions and conversions to the system.
• Serve as an advisor to clients as they onboard/transition/convert to/from organization products and solutions.
• Obtains and reviews the appropriate documentation and reference data, and ensures regulatory aspects of AML and KYC are completed prior to opening accounts.
• Ensures all SLA's are met.
• Responsible for overall success of large, complex transitions/conversions, ensuring client satisfaction through the monitoring of project quality and efficiency as well as the direct client experience.
• Provides consultative support of complex situations for internal and external clients.
• Provides leadership and recommendations for onsite client support and training to assist with documentation, quality review and submission of documents.
• Leads project management activities for the onboarding/transition/conversion such as reporting, planning, issue / risk tracking, scheduling, effort estimation and day-to-day tracking, and other project documentation preparation.
• Ensures client receives all necessary training or conducts the training him/herself.
• Identifies significant gaps or quality issues in transition processes and makes recommendations for improvement.
• Maintains a book of clients and ensure that client activity on an account is maintained once an account is opened.
• Leads large complex conversion activities related to a mix of complex institutional client relationships requiring the in-depth understanding of custody and accounting processing activities.
• Completes an accurate conversion of data on financial statements for daily, weekly, or monthly valuation clients.
• Reviews control reports to effectively mitigate risks and resolve problems that arise during the conversion process.
• Marshals firm-wide resources (product, technology, marketing, compliance, teams, etc.) to ensure client transition/conversion needs are being addressed, and develops processes to ensure communication and alignment across teams.
• Ensures activities meet all compliance, legal and regulatory requirements.
• May facilitate legal negotiation or document review.
• Regular review and appraisal of workflows and procedures to provide optimum client experience and appreciation of regulatory, compliance and risk environment.
• No direct reports.
• Acts as a Team Lead and provides guidance to less experienced colleagues.
• Allocates work to and monitors the work quality of others assigned to the client.
• Leads process improvements based on post-mortem transition analysis.
• May have people management responsibilities in some geographies.
• Responsible for large complex, mature and/or global clients or more complex platforms.
• Contributes to the achievement of team and area objectives.

• Bachelor's degree or the equivalent combination of education and experience is required.
• Advanced/graduate degree preferred. 10-12 years of total work experience preferred.
• Experience in securities, financial services or client-facing or project management roles preferred.
• FINRA SERIES 99 license required
• Applicable local/regional licenses or certifications as required by the business.

BNY Mellon is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Minorities/Females/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans. Our ambition is to build the best global team - one that is representative and inclusive of the diverse talent, clients and communities we work with and serve - and to empower our team to do their best work. We support wellbeing and a balanced life, and offer a range of family-friendly, inclusive employment policies and employee forums.

Employer Description:

For over 230 years, the people of BNY Mellon have been at the forefront of finance, expanding the financial markets while supporting investors throughout the investment lifecycle. BNY Mellon can act as a single point of contact for clients looking to create, trade, hold, manage, service, distribute or restructure investments and safeguards nearly one-fifth of the world's financial assets. BNY Mellon remains one of the safest, most trusted and admired companies. Every day our employees make their mark by helping clients better manage and service their financial assets around the world. Whether providing financial services for institutions, corporations or individual investors, clients count on the people of BNY Mellon across time zones and in 35 countries and more than 100 markets. It's the collective ambition, innovative thinking and exceptionally focused client service paired with a commitment to doing what is right that continues to set us apart. Make your mark: bnymellon.com/careers.

EEO Statement:

BNY Mellon is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Minorities/Females/Individuals With Disabilities/Protected Veterans. Our ambition is to build the best global team - one that is representative and inclusive of the diverse talent, clients and communities we work with and serve - and to empower our team to do their best work. We support wellbeing and a balanced life, and offer a range of family-friendly, inclusive employment policies and employee forums.