Due Diligence Associate

We are looking for experienced professionals for a Due Diligence Screening & Investigations role with a primary focus on Adverse Media / Negative News Screening and Financial Crime Investigations.The role involves reviewing screening alerts, conducting detailed research on customers and entities, performing name-match analysis, identifying false positives, assessing financial crime and reputational risks, documenting investigation findings, and escalating significant adverse information.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct Adverse Media / Negative News screening and investigations on customers, entities, and related parties.
• Review and investigate screening alerts using internal and external research sources.
• Perform name-match analysis using customer identifiers and contextual information.
• Identify and differentiate true matches, false positives, and insufficient matches.
• Assess adverse information for relevance, credibility, recency, severity, and potential risk.
• Identify risks related to money laundering, fraud, bribery, corruption, sanctions, terrorist financing, regulatory violations, and other financial crimes.
• Conduct additional research using public and internal sources to validate findings.
• Prepare clear and concise investigation summaries and case disposition rationales.
• Escalate significant or higher-risk findings as per established procedures.
• Maintain accurate case documentation and meet defined quality, productivity, turnaround-time, and SLA requirements.
• Collaborate with SMEs, quality teams, managers, and other stakeholders on complex investigations.

Required Skills

• Minimum 3+ years of relevant experience in AML, KYC, Financial Crime, Adverse Media Screening, Due Diligence, EDD, Screening & Investigations, Sanctions Screening, or Compliance.
• Hands-on experience in Adverse Media / Adverse News / Negative News Screening is highly preferred.
• Understanding of AML, KYC, BSA, EDD, sanctions, financial crime, and reputational risk.
• Experience in alert investigation, name matching, false-positive identification, risk assessment, and case disposition.
• Strong research, investigation, analytical, and critical-thinking skills.
• Strong written communication and investigation documentation skills.
• Ability to handle high-volume cases while meeting quality and SLA requirements.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.