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Senior KYC Analyst

Location: UK or Germany (remote working)

Contract Type: 12 month assignment


Are you an experienced KYC professional ready to shape an organisation‑wide compliance uplift from the ground up? As our Senior KYC Analyst, you will be instrumental in the rollout of our revised KUC/AML policy and will lead on the review of the most complex and high risk due diligence across our stakeholders.


You’ll operate as the the KYC team's initial point of contact/operational SMA, supporting decision-making, QA/QC, and process KYC initiatives and help introduce KYC to all suppliers, partners and verification bodies.


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

  • Lead complex KYC/KYB reviews, including multi‑layer ownership analysis, UBO mapping, escalations, and ambiguous cases.
  • Perform advanced sanctions/PEP/adverse media assessments, including discounting false positives and identifying subtle red flags.
  • Serve as the team’s SME, supporting colleagues across Gold Standard
  • Deliver QA/QC on Analyst work to strengthen consistency, governance, and overall KYC quality.
  • Oversee the performance of the Gold Standard's KYC application and validate its risk in line with the organisation's policies.
  • Maintain rigorous documentation, reasoning, and audit trails throughout.


Who We Are Looking For

  • Demonstrated experience handling complex KYC/KYB reviews across multi‑jurisdictional entities.
  • Strong understanding of sanctions/PEP/adverse media.
  • Ability to make structured risk‑based decisions with documented rationale.
  • QA/QC experience reviewing junior analysts’ work and identifying systemic issues.
  • Confident coaching and escalation support across multiple internal teams.
  • Tech‑comfortable, capable of using workflow and case‑management tools.
  • Clear communicator with strong autonomy and sound professional judgement.


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.