Senior Data Analyst KYC Consultant

Mission Overview

Keystone Solutions is looking for a Senior Data Analyst with strong KYC expertise for a consultancy mission in Brussels. You will be hired by Keystone Solutions and represent us while working on a client project under our consultancy model. The mission combines 50% on-site work with 50% homeworking.

As a Data Analyst, you will play a critical role in designing, delivering, and maintaining high-quality data solutions across the KYC lifecycle, covering customer onboarding, periodic reviews, and event-driven updates. You will support compliance, operational efficiency, and scalability by making customer identification, due diligence, risk assessment, and KYC process data reliable and usable. You will act as a bridge between data providers such as IT, Data Services, AI, and Operations and data consumers such as KYC Operations, Front Office, Compliance teams, and regulators, aligning technical solutions with business needs while upholding strict data governance and quality standards.

Core Responsibilities

These responsibilities will be carried out as a Keystone Solutions consultant within the client environment.

• Stakeholder Alignment and Communication: Coordinate input from IT, Data Services, Compliance (CPL), KYC Operations, and Front Office, ensuring alignment on KYC data needs through structured documentation, workshops, and clear communication.
• Translate KYC business requirements for onboarding, reviews, customer due diligence, and risk assessment into actionable data solutions, balancing technical feasibility with regulatory and operational needs.
• Data Governance and Quality: Establish and enforce data governance frameworks, including role definitions, quality rules, and access protocols, in collaboration with data providers and consumers.
• Monitor, refine, and escalate data quality issues proactively, ensuring long-term integrity of KYC datasets, including customer identification, legal entity and beneficial ownership information, related parties, risk classifications, and due diligence records.
• Define and document business and technical rules for KYC data integration, including source-to-target mappings, data lineage, and reconciliation controls, ensuring traceability and compliance.
• Data Analysis and Troubleshooting: Investigate and resolve discrepancies across customer reference data, KYC applications, and mainframe-based data points. A willingness to explore raw data is essential.
• Write and run SQL queries to extract, join, validate, and analyze KYC data across source systems, uncovering trends, data quality issues, and actionable insights.
• Analyze KYC customer, risk, screening, and process data to identify missing or inconsistent information, coverage gaps, and operational bottlenecks across onboarding and reviews.
• Solution Design and Industrialization: Design logical and physical data models, such as data warehouses and datamarts, optimized for KYC reporting and analytics, linking customers, legal entities, beneficial owners, related parties, risk assessments, and process history.
• Develop and industrialize data pipelines, ensuring reliable flows between KYC source systems, shared data platforms, and reporting solutions, with appropriate accessibility across the enterprise.
• Build and maintain interactive dashboards to visualize KYC data and KPIs, including onboarding and review volumes, risk distribution, cycle times, waiting times, and handovers, preferably using Power BI. Translate findings into actionable insights to support business decisions and process improvements.
• Prototype KYC data solutions and dashboards to validate business requirements and refine designs based on feedback.
• Process Optimization: Streamline KYC data workflows to maximize reusability and efficiency, reducing duplicate data collection and manual checks. Use process history to measure cycle times, waiting times, handovers, and rework, and identify opportunities for process improvement.
• Advocate for best practices in data security, architecture, and compliance, aligning with IT and risk management standards.

Language Requirements

• Strong written and spoken communication skills in Dutch or French.
• Strong written and spoken communication skills in English.
• Excellent communication skills, with fluency in Dutch, French, and English, to engage technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Education

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a quantitative discipline such as statistics, mathematics, or engineering.
• Candidates with other academic backgrounds and substantial knowledge of analytics are also encouraged to apply.

Required Experience and Technical Knowledge

• At least 5 years of relevant experience in Data Analytics.
• Mandatory: 2–6 years of hands-on experience in Data Analytics, with a focus on KYC, customer due diligence, or financial crime prevention.
• Mandatory: Proficiency in SQL, including writing and running queries to extract, join, validate, and analyze data, and proficiency with data modeling tools such as PowerDesigner or equivalent.
• Mandatory: Hands-on experience with reporting and dashboard tools such as Tableau, BO, or SAS to visualize data, monitor KPIs, and generate actionable business insights.
• Preferable: Hands-on experience building interactive dashboards and reports in Power BI is highly appreciated but not mandatory.
• Preferable: Familiarity with Agile methodologies and project management tools such as JIRA and Agile Central.

Business Experience

• Deep understanding of banking and KYC data, particularly customer identification, legal entity structures, beneficial ownership, related parties, customer risk assessments, screening outcomes, and onboarding and review workflows.
• Proven ability to capture, document, and manage functional and non-functional requirements for data solutions.
• Knowledge of data security, IT architecture, and financial services operations.
• Hands-on experience with data quality frameworks, including rule definition, monitoring, and issue escalation.
• Ability to coordinate input from multiple stakeholders, including IT, Data Services, Compliance (CPL), KYC Operations, and Front Office, through structured documentation, workshops, and clear communication, requiring project management skills.

Soft Skills

• Proactive and entrepreneurial mindset, with the ability to drive initiatives independently while collaborating across teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail and a quality-focused approach.
• Excellent communication skills to engage technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Adaptability and eagerness to learn, with the ability to connect strategic goals to operational execution.

Why Join Keystone Solutions

This is a consultancy opportunity where you will build your identity as a Keystone Solutions consultant while delivering meaningful results within a client environment. On-site collaboration gives you direct exposure to complex technical, operational, regulatory, and strategic challenges.

• Dynamic Projects: Develop your consulting expertise by addressing diverse challenges across client environments and business contexts.
• Turbo-Charged Learning: Broaden your technical, business, and stakeholder-management capabilities through intensive professional development and varied consulting experiences.
• Skyrocketing Ambition: Grow your career within a consultancy framework designed to support increasing responsibility, expertise, and ambition.
• Be a K-Stone: Bring Keystone Solutions' core values to every engagement and represent our consultant identity through collaboration, initiative, quality, and commitment to client outcomes.

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