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KYC ANALYST

Location: United Kingdom or Germany (Fully Remote)

Contract Type: 12 month assignment


AS a KYC Analyst, you'll be the engine of the organisation's KYC function. You'll be processing reviews, handling document validation and ensuring accurate audit trails across Gold Standard's new and existing stakeholders.You’ll support onboarding processes, help make sure automated KYC decisions are correct, and keep Gold Standard's compliance operations moving smoothly.


Please note we reserve the right to close this role early


Who Are The Registry Team

The Registry Team manages the Gold Standard Impact Registry, the system used to issue and track climate‑impact products. Sitting within the Growth Division’s Stakeholder Relations & Capacity Development Department, the team oversees day‑to‑day platform operations, customer support, and onboarding of project developers and account holders.


The KYC function ensures every entity interacting with the Registry is legitimate, verified, and appropriately risk‑assessed. The team applies a risk-based approach to KYC/AML and collaborates closely with Gold Standard's Legal, Risk, Assurance & Oversight, Finance, Operations teams to build long‑term compliance capability across the organisation.


What You Will Be Doing

  • Conduct onboarding and ongoing KYC/KYB reviews: check questionnaires, validate documents, and identify obvious red flags.
  • Manage your case queue for the organisation‑wide supported by Gold Standard’s KYC application.
  • Follow up with stakeholders to request missing or unclear information.
  • Maintain accurate documentation and audit trails in line with SLAs.
  • Collaborate with Registry, Legal, Risk, and Assurance teams.
  • Flag complex cases and/or suspicious activity to senior team members.
  • Flag improvements to workflows and suggest improvements to support the KYC project.


Who We Are Looking For

  • Experience reviewing structured data, onboarding documents, or similar compliance tasks.
  • Exposure to basic screening or risk concepts (KYC experience is welcome but not required).
  • High attention to detail and accuracy.
  • Ability to work independently and manage SLAs.
  • Confident communicator with external stakeholders.
  • Comfortable navigating workflow or case‑management systems.


What We Can Offer You

  • A mission-driven organisation working at the leading edge of climate and sustainability.
  • Rewarding work in a dynamic non-profit environment.
  • A collaborative workplace within a multicultural team.
  • An ambitious, agile and flexible environment.


We are unable to sponsor VISAs and only candidates with the correct right to work documents will be considered.


Our Values

Pioneering - We focus on those that have the most promise to contribute to our vision and mission, bringing them to market with the requisite planning and resources.

Rigorous - We build on our reputation for quality and rigor with more robust measurement of outcomes, stronger safeguards and greater impact across the Sustainable Development Goals. Our objective is to make rigor simpler and more achievable at scale.

Collaborative - We work with key partners who share our goals and complement our strengths. Our partnership strategy aims to move beyond working opportunistically as a delivery partner in favor of collaborating in long-term strategic synergy.

Transparent - We were established to bring confidence, trust, and accountability to carbon markets. We will continue to take strides to improve transparency in our own processes, in the broader market and in non-market mechanisms


About Us

Gold Standard is a not-for-profit organization that helps companies understand the role they should play in creating a net-zero, sustainable nature future and provides tangible ways for them to contribute. This includes investments in their value chains, carbon credits, and other mechanisms for high-integrity climate action that delivers real impact for people and nature.


The Gold Standard Foundation was established in 2003 by WWF and other international NGOs as a best practice standard to ensure projects that reduced carbon emissions under the UN’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) also delivered sustainable development benefits. Today, our standard, ‘Gold Standard for the Global Goals’, allows climate and development initiatives within carbon markets, corporate supply chains, and sustainable finance to manage, measure and maximise their impacts toward the Net Zero ambition of the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals.