Candidate profile details:

• Years of experience: 4 – 8 Years
• Interaction with Stakeholders: 100% internally
• Project: AML Operation Quality Assurance
• Selling Point of the position: Advancement opportunity and growth within bank in quality control department. In a growing department looking for FTE
• Best vs Average Candidate: Strong attention to detail with AML knowledge, high performance/productivity.
• Proactiveness and go getter attitude.
• Ability to adapt to changing work environments.
• Learn quickly and adapt to new processes
• Ability to exercise sound judgment in making decisions
• Analyze, research, organize and prioritize work while meeting multiple deadlines
• Tech savvy – able to learn quickly and pick up on internal systems quickly
• How will performance be measured: Productivity metrics and overall quality.

Job Description:

• Perform a quality assurance on broad range of money laundering investigation related activities in support of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Anti-Terrorist Financing (ATF) regulations designed to detect and report on financial-related crimes
• Evaluate ML/TF risk, by conducting quality check on cases/alerts as part of the controls of bank’s AML and ATF program
• Keep abreast of emerging issues, trends, and evolving regulatory requirements and assess potential impacts
• Evaluate potentially suspicious account activity. Recognize and evaluate accounts and activity and effectively document recommendations regarding account retention and/or regulatory reporting obligations
• Provide trend analysis of AML/ATF findings and gaps to Management for review
• Maintain a culture of risk management and control, supported by effective processes in alignment with risk appetite
• Manage ambiguity and apply judgement to identify, troubleshoot and resolve ongoing business and operational issues
• Assist the QA function with developing/drafting and maintaining written policies, procedures and/or programs/frameworks to minimize compliance breaches and monitor adherence to applicable regulations/ requirement
• Prioritize and manage own workload to meet SLA requirements for service and productivity
• Represent as a project lead on projects / initiatives and/or at meetings across the organization
• Serve as a subject matter expert in a quality control function and serve as knowledge and process expert to others
• Effectively work independently with minimal supervision within a team environment to complete a common goal and prioritize daily workload to meet department objectives
• Adhere to the team policy and procedures to ensure that work is properly documented
• Ability to lead and positively influence others
• Contribute to the success of the team by willingly assisting others in the completion and performance of work activities
• Perform additional duties and participate in special projects as required

Department Overview:

• The Client Global AML department is accountable for establishing bank’s Global Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorist Financing Program (AML/ATF) to ensure that all bank’s businesses adhere with AML/ATF regulatory expectations in all jurisdictions where bank operates.
• This includes setting consistent standards across business segments that may be further tailored to specific business or jurisdictional requirements; conducting annual enterprise-wide AML risk assessments; maintaining the Global AML Policy (including Know Your Customer and Enhanced Due Diligence, record keeping & retention requirements); currency transaction and suspicious transaction monitoring and reporting; screening bank’s customers against regulatory watch lists; a hierarchy of designated AML officer functions; enterprise-wide and specialized AML training of employees; and independent AML testing. In the FIU, we conduct detection, investigation, and reporting for the money laundering program.

Shareholder:

• Prioritize and manage own workload to meet SLA requirements for service and productivity
• Consistently exercise discretion in managing correspondence, information and all matters of confidentiality; escalate issues where appropriate
• Protect the interests of the organization identify and manage risks, and escalate non-standard, high-risk transactions / activities as necessary
• Comply with applicable internal and external audit and regulatory requirements and may actively participate in Audit Reviews, providing recommendations and guidance as required.

Customer:

• Support the business internally as a specialist of a given area in AML/ATF, Sanctions/ABAC matters
• Conduct sound investigations and provide AML/ATF, Sanctions/ABAC, support and recommendations on AML/BSA, Sanctions and ABAC investigations

Employee / team:

• Participate fully as a member of the team, support a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork and ensure timely communication of issues/ points of interest
• Support the team by continuously enhancing knowledge / expertise in own area and participate in knowledge transfer within the team and business unit
• Keep current on emerging trends/ developments and grow knowledge of the business, related tools and techniques
• Participate in personal performance management and development activities, including cross training within own team
• Keep others informed and up-to-date about the status / progress of projects and / or all relevant or useful information related to day-to-day activities
• Guided by practices, procedures and operating plans, makes process and capacity management decisions to ensure ongoing operations

Inclusiveness:

• At client, we are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees and customers feel valued, respected and supported. We are dedicated to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of our customers and the communities in which we live and serve. If you

Must have:

• At least 4+ Years experience in AML investigations experience and with 1 year of STR filing experience
• Understanding of related regulations, such as the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act (PCMLTFA)
• Experience with a wide variety of ML/TF risks for multiple customer/product types and a solid ability to articulate the risks and your findings in a recommendation summary
• Excellent technical and computing skills: including the ability to use various searchable databases and Microsoft Office software
• Skill in using computer applications including MS Office. Proficiency in Excel is a must (manipulate data, formulas, sort
• Ability to process and handle confidential information with discretion

Nice To Have:

• AML QC/QA experience
• Prior knowledge of client processes/ systems
• Banking experience
• ACAMS certificate as an asset