Who is hiring KYB and KYC analysts, and for which shifts?

Every open KYC or KYB analyst role is a company paying salaries to clear an onboarding queue by hand. We collected 404 public job postings for those roles, published between July 9 and September 30, 2026, and read each one for who is hiring, where, at what level, for what pay, and on what schedule.

The short version: most of this work is hired for weekday office hours. Only 4% of postings mention weekend work, and most of those say "as needed". Where companies do need hours outside the local working day, they tend to hire in another time zone rather than put analysts on weekend shifts. Meanwhile about a quarter of the demand is already filled through outsourcers and staffing agencies.

The dataset, with a source URL and capture date for every posting, is available as a CSV download.

Key findings

• 404 postings from 277 employers across 24 countries. The United States has the most (131), followed by the United Kingdom (51), India (50), Singapore (38), the Philippines (36) and Poland (33).
• Banks post the most roles: 31%. Citi alone posted 17 of the 404, across India, Poland, Singapore, the Philippines and the UAE. Payments companies posted 12%, fintechs 11% and crypto firms 7%.
• About a quarter of the demand is outsourced. Outsourcers (BPOs and managed-service providers, consulting and audit firms, and fund administrators) posted 18% of the roles, and staffing agencies hiring for an unnamed client another 7%. In India, the Philippines and Poland, outsourcers posted 32% of roles.
• Weekend work is rare in the ads. Of 387 postings with a full description, 16 (4%) mention weekends and 33 (9%) mention any weekend, night, shift or on-call arrangement. In the US the figure is 7 of 131 (5%).
• Off-hours cover is bought in other time zones. Postings in India, the Philippines and Poland mention shift or off-hours work three times as often as US postings (16% against 5%), and several say the shift exists to cover US or UK hours.
• US pay is stated in 45% of postings. For roles below manager level, the median stated range is $72,500 to $93,000, with a median midpoint of $82,500.

Who is hiring

Banks dominate the count, and the largest ones hire in their offshore operations centers. Of Citi's 17 postings, 8 are in India and none are in the US. MUFG (8), Northern Trust (4), Deutsche Bank (4) and Scotiabank (4) follow the same pattern of several parallel KYC roles.

Among payments, fintech and crypto firms, the multi-posting employers were Checkout.com (5), Circle (4), Adyen (3), Stripe (3), Wise (3), N26 (3) and Clear Street (3). Several list separate roles for business onboarding, customer due diligence and ongoing due diligence. If you are sizing your own queue, the onboarding backlog calculator runs the same arithmetic on your numbers.

Seniority skews toward working analysts. Two thirds of titles (272) are mid-level or carry no level marker, 16% are senior, 9% are explicitly entry level and 8% are team leads or managers.

How much of the work is outsourced

The 74 outsourcer postings split three ways:

• 36 from BPOs and managed-service providers, including Accenture, Tata Consultancy Services, Genpact, Concentrix, eClerx, AML RightSource and MicroSourcing, and specialist KYC providers such as Capitex, which advertises five roles inside a "KYC Managed Service" team, from junior analyst to pod lead.
• 20 from fund administrators and corporate-service providers such as IQ-EQ, Citco, Alter Domus and CSC, who run investor and client KYC on behalf of funds.
• 18 from consulting and audit firms such as Deloitte, EY, PwC, KPMG and Grant Thornton.

Add the 30 staffing-agency postings and 104 of 404 roles (26%) are filled by someone other than the company that owns the customer relationship. Geography matters here. In the US, outsourcers and agencies account for 20 of 131 postings (15%). In India, the Philippines and Poland they account for 42 of 119 (35%), and outsourcers are the single largest segment there.

Who asks for weekends, nights or shifts

We read the schedule language in each posting by hand and recorded four flags: weekend work, night or off-hours work, shift or rotation schedules, and on-call duty. Seventeen postings had no description text we could read, so percentages below use 387 postings.

Most weekend mentions are soft. In the US, 6 postings mention weekends, and 5 of those are "as needed" clauses (a credit union, a Miami bank, a digital-asset trust company, a law firm's on-call rotation and a casino compliance role). The only US posting with a stated night and weekend shift pattern is a casino operator's KYC supervisor role.

The postings that do schedule weekend work look like this:

• GoCardless (Riga): after onboarding, a rotational pattern of 4 days on and 4 days off, 8 AM to 8 PM.
• Relay (Toronto): a choice between a Wednesday to Sunday schedule and weekday afternoons from 1 PM to 9 PM ET.
• BOYLE Sports (Ireland): a 7-day operation where analysts work roughly one weekend in four.
• Adyen (Madrid): a team lead who plans "global coverage and weekend shifts" with peers.
• XTB (Poland), Syfe (India) and Capital on Tap: shift systems or rest days that include weekends and public holidays.

By segment, fintechs mention non-standard hours most often (8 of 45, 18%), followed by outsourcers (10 of 61, 16%). Banks almost never do (4 of 125, 3%). Thirteen postings go the other way and state Monday to Friday hours or "weekends off" explicitly, including three Accenture roles in Manila.

Off-hours cover is bought offshore

When a posting outside the US does mention a shift, it is often there to cover somebody else's working day:

• Standard Chartered (Poland): a shift model from 10:00 to 22:00 "to cover US time zone".
• Uncapped (Warsaw): shifts from 14:00 to 22:00 CET every other week to cover US hours.
• Novo (India): "comfortable working in the US shift".
• An Emapta role in the Philippines works 9 AM to 5 PM UK time, with weekends off.

Companies extend the review day by adding an office several time zones away, and the weekend stays uncovered. An application submitted on Friday evening in New York will usually sit until Monday unless the company pays for weekend hours somewhere. Our page on 24/7 onboarding review covers what that gap does to applicants and approval times.

What employers say they pay

New York, for example, requires employers with four or more employees to list a compensation range in job advertisements, which is one reason US postings disclose pay far more often than others. Of 131 US postings, 59 (45%) state pay: 53 as an annual salary and 6 as an hourly rate.

For the 45 roles below manager level, the median range runs from $72,500 to $93,000. The middle half of midpoints falls between $70,500 and $102,500. Fintech midpoints ran higher than bank midpoints in our sample (a median of $90,425 across 12 fintech postings against $77,500 across 15 bank postings), though both groups are small.

Some concrete ranges from the data:

• Deutsche Bank, KYC Case Manager (Associate): $48,000 to $74,000.
• Carta, Junior Inbound Compliance Analyst (KYC): $63,100 to $78,900.
• Mercury, KYC Investigator, Ongoing Due Diligence: $85,500 to $96,200 in its highest-cost US cities.
• Adyen, CDD Risk Analyst, San Francisco: $90,000 to $125,000.

The six hourly postings ranged from $18.75 to $55.50 an hour. Flatpay's KYC Agent role in New York, which reviews and onboards new merchants, pays $25 to $31 an hour.

What it costs to staff a weekend queue in-house

Here is the arithmetic, using only the public ranges above. It shows what a weekend seat costs; it says nothing about how many applications one analyst clears.

Inputs

• Salary: the median stated midpoint for US roles below manager level, $82,500. We also show the 25th and 75th percentile midpoints, $70,500 and $102,500.
• Paid hours per full-time salary: 40 hours × 52 weeks = 2,080. This includes vacation and holidays, so it understates the headcount needed to cover every hour.
• Employer cost: wages and salaries were 70.0% of total employer compensation costs for US private industry workers in June 2026 (BLS). Dividing wages by 0.70 gives an estimate of wages plus benefits.

Three coverage levels

Three things make the real number higher:

1. You cannot hire 0.4 of an analyst. The postings show the workarounds: shifted weeks (Relay's Wednesday to Sunday option) or rotations (GoCardless's 4 on, 4 off).
2. Leave and turnover. The 2,080-hour figure counts paid leave as covered time, so a seat covered every hour of the week realistically needs five people on the rota, not 4.2.
3. Everything around the analyst. The figures exclude shift premiums (no posting states one), a weekend supervisor or second reviewer, QA, tooling, recruiting and training.

The cheaper-looking alternative is the one the data shows banks already use: move the extra hours to a lower-cost region. That extends the weekday, but in this sample it rarely covers the weekend. Only 3 of 117 postings in India, the Philippines and Poland mention weekend work.

Method

• Sources. LinkedIn's public job listings (no login) for 15 search phrases in the US, such as "KYC analyst", "KYB analyst" and "customer due diligence analyst", plus "KYC analyst" and "KYB analyst" in seven other countries, limited to the last 90 days. We added KYC-related postings from the public job-board feeds (Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever, Workable, SmartRecruiters, Recruitee) of 499 fintech, payments, crypto, bank and outsourcer career boards, and postings already collected by our internal job monitor.
• Inclusion. The title names KYC, KYB, due diligence or client onboarding and the description refers to KYC, AML or sanctions work; or the title is a general compliance or AML analyst role whose description mentions KYC or due diligence at least three times. We excluded director-level and above, engineering, product, sales and data roles.
• One record per posting. Same employer and title were merged into one record with locations combined. Job-board reposts of another employer's role were removed.
• Verification. Every posting was fetched on September 30, 2026. 401 were live and accepting applications; 3 were still listed but closed. The status is in the dataset.
• Segments and schedule flags were assigned by hand: segments from each employer's own description of its business, schedule flags after reading every passage mentioning weekends, nights, shifts, rotations, on-call, holidays or time zones. Benefits language such as "paid holidays" was not counted.
• Salaries come only from ranges printed in the posting. A single printed number is recorded as the minimum. One range printed as "$115-$145 per year" was left out.

Limitations

• Postings are not headcount. One posting can hire several people, and some teams hire without posting.
• LinkedIn dates are repost dates. 350 of the 404 postings carry a September date, which reflects reposting as much as new demand. We do not report a month-by-month trend for that reason.
• Search coverage is uneven. US coverage is deeper than the other countries, and non-English postings are thin (one Polish-language posting is included). Outsourcer share outside the US is probably understated, because large BPOs often post on their own career sites, which we did not crawl.
• Silence about weekends is not proof of weekday-only work. Some employers discuss schedules only at interview. What the data shows is that weekend work is rarely offered or advertised.
• Pay is as published. Ranges are often for the most expensive city, and only 45% of US postings disclose one.

What this means for an onboarding team

If your KYB or KYC queue is staffed like the postings in this sample, it is staffed for weekdays. Applications that arrive on Friday evening wait for Monday, and extending hours means either weekend rotations at roughly the costs above or a second site in another time zone.

Sweat AI is an AI-native BPO for banks and fintechs, starting with back-office workflows like KYB, onboarding and fraud reviews. Our analysts work the queue around the clock, including weekends, so it is done when your team logs in. We prepare each file with its evidence and a recommendation, and your team makes the final decision. See how a KYB review is prepared, or read about 24/7 onboarding review.

Download the dataset: KYB and KYC analyst job postings, July to September 2026 · 404 rows · CC BY 4.0