Analyst, Commercial KYC & Client Screening

About the Role

ConocoPhillips’ Commercial business manages worldwide commodity, supply, marketing, and trading needs. This counterparty due‑diligence role ensures that trading partners, terminals, brokers, agents, and marine‑adjacent entities are properly reviewed, understood, and cleared before doing business, and are monitored for changes thereafter. The majority of time is spent on KYC, with a smaller portion supporting trade‑monitoring activities.

Responsibilities

• Conduct onboarding and periodic KYC reviews of Commercial and Marine counterparties.
• Perform beneficial‑ownership reviews, unpicking ownership chains and identifying ultimate beneficial owners.
• Review and adjudicate sanctions and adverse‑media alerts as part of counterparty reviews, resolving name matches and escalating true or uncertain hits.
• Identify and escalate red flags to senior analysts with clear, well‑evidenced rationale, and support ongoing risk review of already‑onboarded counterparties.
• Maintain the Approved Counterparty List and ensure screening records are accurate and complete.
• Support trade‑monitoring operations to identify patterns, outliers, and potential risk indicators in global trading activity.
• Build a working understanding of the commodities ConocoPhillips trades and why counterparty screening matters to a global energy business.
• Participate in business‑improvement projects that strengthen screening and monitoring processes, data, and systems.

Success Profile

• Takes accountability – owns work, follows through on commitments, holds others accountable, and stands up for what’s right.
• Makes decisions – builds effective solutions from available information and makes timely, safe, ethical decisions.
• Drives performance – delivers results through realistic planning to accomplish goals.
• Communicates effectively – listens actively, stays curious, invites new ideas, influences and acts to drive positive performance.

Basic Requirements

• Legally authorized to work in the United States.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Business, Finance, Economics, Law, Criminal Justice, International Relations, or a related field.
• 1+ year of experience in counterparty due diligence, sanctions or trade compliance, risk, banking, counterparty onboarding or contracts, or a related field (including internships).

Preferred Requirements

• Experience reviewing and clearing sanctions or adverse‑media alerts, with hands‑on exposure to CDD/EDD and beneficial‑ownership reviews.
• Familiarity with sanctions regimes (US OFAC, UK OFSI, EU, Canada, Norway, Australia) and screening tools.
• Exposure to commodities/energy markets, or a demonstrated interest in learning them.
• Working proficiency with Excel; exposure to data‑visualization tools (Power BI / Tableau) or SQL, or a demonstrated ability and drive to learn them.
• Clear evidence of a self‑taught skill or topic – a certification, project, or capability pursued on personal initiative.
• Strong attention to detail, sound judgment, and ability to work methodically through information and know when to escalate.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including clear documentation of reviews.

Benefits Overview

• Medical, dental, vision, mental‑health support, and wellness programs.
• Competitive base pay, annual performance bonuses, and retirement savings plans.
• Paid time off, paid parental leave, and family‑support resources.
• Access to training, mentoring, and internal career‑mobility tools.
• Peer‑nominated awards, inclusive culture, and employee resource groups.

Why ConocoPhillips

ConocoPhillips believes its people power the future of energy. The company is committed to creating a workplace where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow—both professionally and personally. It offers meaningful careers in a culture that values how work is done as much as what is achieved.