Payments Risk Analyst Jobs in Katy, TX (NOW HIRING)

Smith is the leading independent electronic components distributor in the world. Since our founding in 1984, Smith's Intelligent Distribution model and commitment to quality has allowed us to deliver comprehensive solutions to electronic component supply chains. We work across a variety of industries including automotive, supercomputing, gaming, medical devices, oil and gas, and more. Additionally, we provide tailored supply chain solutions such as counterfeit testing, vendor inventory management, and sustainable hardware disposition. We're excited to meet you and share what we love about Smith!

Essential Job Duties:

The Credit KYC Compliance Analyst is responsible for conducting due diligence on prospective and existing customers, suppliers, distributors, and other business counterparties. The position supports informed credit decisions and regulatory compliance by validating legal-entity information, beneficial ownership, financial standing, payment capacity, sanctions exposure, and adverse-risk indicators.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct KYC and credit due diligence for new and existing commercial counterparties, including legal-entity verification, ownership analysis, and validation of authorized signatories.

• Review corporate documentation, such as certificates of formation/incorporation, business registrations, tax documentation, ownership charts, shareholder registers, financial statements, bank references, trade references, and credit applications.

• Identify and document ultimate beneficial owners, controlling persons, parent companies, affiliates, and complex ownership structures.

• Perform sanctions, politically exposed person (PEP), watchlist, adverse-media, and other relevant compliance screenings; investigate potential matches and escalate credible concerns in accordance with internal policy.

• Assess counterparty creditworthiness using financial statements, credit reports, payment history, trade references, industry conditions, country risk, liquidity indicators, leverage, profitability, and cash-flow trends.

• Assign or support assignment of customer risk ratings based on credit, compliance, geographic, ownership, industry, and transaction-risk factors.

• Conduct enhanced due diligence (EDD) for high-risk counterparties, including those involving high-risk jurisdictions, complex ownership, adverse media, sanctions exposure, unusual transaction structures, or elevated fraud concerns.

• Review customers periodically and upon trigger events, including ownership changes, adverse credit developments, overdue balances, legal actions, material news, sanctions-list changes, or changes in business activity.

• Maintain accurate, complete, and audit-ready KYC, credit, and screening documentation in designated systems and repositories.

• Prepare concise written risk assessments and escalation memoranda that clearly state findings, risk factors, outstanding information, recommended action, and approval requirements.

• Partner with Sales and commercial stakeholders to obtain required documentation without compromising compliance standards or onboarding controls.

• Monitor regulatory and policy developments relevant to KYC, AML, sanctions, anti-bribery, data privacy, trade compliance, and commercial credit risk.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, Risk Management, Compliance, or a related field.

• 3+ years of experience in commercial credit, KYC/AML, compliance, customer onboarding, financial analysis, corporate due diligence, or accounts receivable.

• Ability to review corporate documents and identify beneficial ownership and control relationships.

• Working knowledge of KYC/CDD, sanctions screening, adverse media, PEP review, and risk-based escalation.

• Ability to analyze financial statements and assess commercial credit risk.

• Advanced Excel and strong proficiency with business systems and research tools.

• Exceptional attention to detail, written communication, research, and analytical skills.

• Ability to maintain complete, confidential, and audit-ready documentation.

Position Type: Full-Time/Regular
FSLA: Exempt

Smith is an equal opportunity employer, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

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