Qualitative risk decisioning and escalation

• Provide senior risk judgement on complex, novel, or borderline institutional and high-risk cases, including where system-generated risk ratings warrant closer examination.
• Escalate cases appropriately to the Senior Manager, KYC Risk & Assurance and, where required, to second-line Compliance, with a clear articulation of the risk and a recommended treatment.
• Act as a senior point of expertise the institutional onboarding team can draw on for complex EDD questions and novel client scenarios.

Quality, consistency, and continuous improvement

• Support consistent, high-quality application of EDD standards across the institutional and high-risk client base.
• Identify recurring themes and patterns from case work and share insight with the onboarding team and second line to strengthen process, training, and controls.
• Contribute to the quality oversight and assurance activity owned by the KYC Risk & Assurance function.

Collaboration and stakeholder management

• Build strong, collaborative relationships with the institutional onboarding team, the KYC Risk & Assurance function, and second-line Compliance and Financial Crime.
• Contribute to a culture where strong financial crime foundations enable safe and sustainable business growth.

What will you need for this role?

Experience & Education

• 4 to 8 years of financial crime or KYC experience in financial services, with a strong, hands-on focus on EDD and complex client due diligence.
• Solid technical knowledge of UK AML and financial crime regulation, including JMLSG guidance, and the ability to apply it pragmatically in a fast-paced, commercial environment.
• Proven experience conducting EDD on institutional, professional, or high-risk clients, including complex ownership structures, source of wealth and funds, and PEP and sanctions cases.
• Confident exercising qualitative judgement and making well-documented, defensible risk decisions on complex clients.
• Bachelor's degree in Law, Business, Finance, Economics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. A relevant AML qualification (for example ICA or ACAMS) is desirable.

Personal Attributes

• Acts with integrity and consistently demonstrates high professional and ethical standards.
• Delivers high-quality work with energy, accountability, and a strong sense of urgency.
• Commercial and solutions-focused, enabling growth while maintaining strong compliance and client protection.
• Confident exercising sound judgement and providing effective challenge on client risk.
• Committed to continuous improvement in controls and ways of working.
• Communicates clearly and manages stakeholders effectively.
• Demonstrates resilience and works well under pressure.
• Comfortable working from IG's London office a minimum of three days per week.

We believe that diversity is vital to success, it fuels creativity, drives innovation, and sets us up for global success. We're committed to building teams with a variety of perspectives and skills to help us realize our vision and strategy, that's why we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences to join us on this journey. Learn more about our D&I approach here.

What you'll get!

This role will bring with it a range of development and growth opportunities which we hope are motivating for someone who wants to Raise the Bar.

We focus on outcomes, not activity. Your success is measured by:

• EDD on Prime and high-risk clients completed to a high standard, with sound, well-documented risk decisions.
• Complex and borderline cases resolved with clear reasoning and escalated appropriately where warranted.
• Prime and high-risk clients onboarded promptly, without compromising quality or compliance.
• Insight from case work shared to strengthen process, training, and controls.
• Trusted working relationships across the institutional onboarding team, KYC Risk & Assurance, and second-line Compliance.

Number of openings

1