KYC Operations Expert (f/m/d)

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About lemon.markets 🍋 We enable anyone to be an investor. Our mission is to grow investing opportunities for all European customers and businesses. By empowering FinTechs, banks, and wealth managers to offer investment products, we help create financial well-being for their customers. lemon.markets is a Brokerage-as-a-Service platform: simple digital access to capital markets through a single API. Our API-first infrastructure abstracts brokerage complexity with a well-documented API, a self-service customer operations portal, and a clear regulatory framework, so partners can launch customer-centric, compliant products in weeks, not months. As part of the dwpbank Group, we share a clear goal: we enable anyone to be an investor by making investing in capital markets more accessible. By combining dwpbank's long-standing expertise and stability with lemon.markets' technology-first mindset and speed, we are building a modern, modular securities services ecosystem. Together, we offer faster time-to-market, modular services, and a modern customer experience that helps financial service providers stay competitive and respond more flexibly in a changing market. Your Mission As our KYC Operations Specialist, you will help ensure that our B2B client onboarding and lifecycle processes are compliant, reliable, and scalable in a regulated environment. You will report to the Customer Operations Lead and work in the 1LoD alongside AFC Operations and Customer Service, collaborating closely with the Customer Lifecycle Domain, 2LoD Compliance, and KYC teams at our partners. Your work will directly support smooth client onboarding, strong risk management, and accurate customer account data, helping us follow best practices while enabling our partners to operate with confidence. Over the next 6 to 12 months, your focus will be on executing high-quality end-to-end KYC processes, strengthening routine controls, and helping improve the operational setup around customer lifecycle and compliance-related workflows. The role sits at the intersection of operations, compliance, and partner collaboration, where good judgment and attention to detail have a direct impact on risk, audit readiness, and customer experience. This is a strong opportunity to shape and improve mission-critical processes as they scale in complexity and volume. In this role you will: Oversee end-to-end KYC processes for B2B clients together with internal stakeholders and partner KYC teams, including onboarding, periodic reviews, and offboarding, to ensure compliant and efficient customer lifecycle management. Conduct due diligence on corporate clients by reviewing legal entity structures, UBOs, source of funds, and corporate documentation, enabling robust risk assessments and sound onboarding decisions. Assess client risk profiles in line with internal policies and regulatory requirements, escalating high-risk clients, suspicious activity, and compliance concerns to AFC Operations, Compliance, and other relevant teams when needed. Maintain accurate customer records, KYC documentation, and risk assessments across internal systems, ensuring audit readiness, timely renewals of key documents, and reliable customer account data. Collaborate closely with the Customer Lifecycle Domain, AFC Operations, Customer Service, 2LoD Compliance, and external partners to resolve KYC-related issues, clarify requirements, and keep operational processes running smoothly. Improve KYC workflows, work instructions, and reporting together with cross-functional teams, helping the organisation scale operations, adapt to regulatory changes, and reduce manual effort over time. You'll be successful in this role if you: You bring 5+ years of relevant experience in Customer Operations or KYC Operations within the financial industry, ideally in a fintech or similarly fast-moving regulated environment. You have a deep understanding of KYC, AML, and CTF requirements in B2B settings, including experience with corporate structures, UBO identification, legal entity forms, and risk-based due diligence. You are strong in risk assessment, document validation, and handling complex onboarding or lifecycle cases with a high level of accuracy, independence, and sound judgment. You are comfortable with KYC tools, CRM or onboarding systems, and operational tooling such as Jira, Jira Service Management, and Confluence, and you know how to maintain clean and reliable records. You are fluent in English and have at least solid German language skills; French language skills would be a plus. You thrive in fast-changing and unstructured environments, take ownership beyond narrow role boundaries, and actively improve processes, tools, and operational outcomes where needed. How we take care of you: 🚀 Compensation package: We offer you a competitive salary, based on your experience and the value-add you bring to lemon.markets. 🕑 Flexible working hours: We trust people to choose when they work best and a

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