Forvis Mazars cares about your career progression, offering individually designed career paths that help you pursue your interests, match your changing needs, and explore your true potential. We work with diverse, prestigious clients across a range of sectors and geographies, giving you the opportunity to constantly update and grow your skills for lifelong professional development.
About the team
Working in the Client Engagement Centre, the client onboarding assistant will be required to support client teams by undertaking customer due diligence on clients. This includes carrying out initial research (including screening to identity a variety of risks, such as adverse media) on the prospective clients, collation of publicly available information about the client and relevant documentation, and, inputting this into the firm's systems.
About the role
- Carrying out client due diligence and collation of supporting documents for a variety of new and existing clients, and, updating on a periodic basis
- Screening of clients for sanctions, Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) and adverse media
- Liaise with the client facing teams and/or client to obtain further information and/or documentation where this has not been provided or is not available from open sources.
- Input the due diligence information and documentation into firm's systems for onward submission and review.
What are we looking for?
- Works well within a team environment, developing and maintaining relationships within the team and wider firm
- Communication skills (written and verbal) are required together with the ability to work under time pressure and to deadlines
- Time management and organisational skills
- IT skills with Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, as well as knowledge of Internet tools
About Forvis Mazars
Forvis Mazars is a leading global professional services network. The network operates under a single brand worldwide, with just two members: Forvis Mazars LLP in the United States and Forvis Mazars Group SC, an internationally integrated partnership operating in over 100 countries and territories.
Both member firms share a commitment to providing an unmatched client experience, delivering audit & assurance, tax and advisory services around the world. Together, our strategic vision strives to move our clients, people, industry and communities forward. Through our reach and areas of expertise, we help organisations respond to emerging sustainability issues in the global marketplace including human rights, climate change, environmental impacts and culture.
We are one diverse, multicultural, multi-generational team with a huge sense of connection and belonging. This is a place where you can take ownership of your career, get involved, believe in yourself and put your ideas into action.
At Forvis Mazars, we empower our people and celebrate individuality. We thrive on teamwork and are agile. We have bold foresight and give people the freedom to make a personal contribution to our shared purpose. We support one another to deliver quality, create change and have a deeper understanding, to help make an impact so that everyone can reach their full potential.
Being inclusive is core to our culture at Forvis Mazars; we want to ensure everyone, whether in the recruitment process or beyond is fully supported to be their unique self. To read more about our approach click here
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Meet the recruiter
James Hardcastle
+44 7790 886857