Manager, aml financial crime risk management

Description du poste:

L10 - Manager, AML Financial Crime Risk Management

Job Description

The Manager, AML Financial Crime Risk Management, position reports directly to the Senior Manager, Specialized Financial Crimes Risk Management, and supports the Enterprise Risk Assessment Team with their technology, methodology execution, and relationship management accountabilities. The Manager, AML Financial Crime Risk Management, is responsible for establishing and actively maintaining the technology used for the enterprise-wide Money Laundering (ML), Terrorist Financing (TF), Anti-Bribery/ Anti-Corruption (ABAC), and Sanctions Risk Assessment program and framework in accordance with regulatory and internal requirements, and for providing oversight and support for ML-TF, ABAC, and Sanctions risk assessments for units/ entities across TD Bank Group (TDBG). In addition, the Manager, AML Financial Crime Risk Management, is responsible for contributing specialized expertise towards the development, deployment, and support of the overall ML-TF, ABAC, and Sanctions risk assessment processes across TDBG.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Support management with End User Computing (EUCs) databases used to drive risk assessments, including: development and ongoing administration and maintenance of the tools (e.g., reconfiguration, access management, problem resolution); technical testing; documentation of procedures or manuals; creating and delivering training to support change management activities. Manage the relationship with relevant teams to ensure technology compliance of databases developed to TD EUC, regulatory, and Internal Audit requirements.
• Document requirements for ML-TF, ABAC, and Sanctions risk assessment tools and tool strategy, as assigned.
• Interact routinely with and manage relationships with AML teams/ areas, and risk assessment management and staff, in the evaluation, development, deployment, and support of the ML-TF, ABAC, and Sanctions risk assessment processes, including acting as the ad-hoc problem resolution contact for these stakeholders.
• Provide standardized requirements and format to the Advisory teams for business-generated data and support the collection and distribution of centralized data. Support data strategies to produce results based on consistent, reproducible data with clear data lineage.
• Supports the quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) within the Enterprise Risk Assessment Team as well as QA and QC completed for the risk assessment cycle. This can include running analytic-based QC checks on submitted data.
• Support Enterprise Risk Assessment Team in reporting responsibilities, including development of reports, data extraction, transformation, and analysis, as well as maintain shared repositories of supporting documentation.
• Support the Senior Manager, Specialized Financial Crimes Risk Management, to ensure the enterprise-wide ML-TF, ABAC, and Sanctions risk assessment program is effective, consistently deployed and maintained, and understand risk identification, risk analysis and risk mitigation according to the regulatory requirements and best business practices.
• Work with the Enterprise Risk Assessment Team to refine processes and active involvement in the recalibration process.
• Monitor ML-TF, ABAC, and Sanctions industry developments and maintain knowledge of new and amended ML-TF, ABAC, and Sanctions laws and regulations pertaining to risk assessments.
• Escalate issues/challenges by the Enterprise Risk Assessment Team, AML Teams, Global Sanctions & ABAC Centre of Excellence, and respective staff and report them in a timely manner to management.
• Contribute to a positive, ethical, respectful, inclusive working environment and communicate openly with others.
• This position provides marked support to the Senior Manager, Specialized Financial Crimes Risk Management, and may coach and guide other Enterprise Risk Assessment Team members.
• Participate in / support enterprise-wide or AML focused projects, as needed.
• Represent Enterprise Risk Assessment on projects/initiatives, as required, in the context of the risk assessment methodology/process, as assigned.
• Support the Enterprise Risk Assessment Team in regulatory examinations and external/internal audits with respect to request for information, reviewing, packaging, submitting information to the requesting party.
• Support the review and update of the methodologies - maintain repository of feedback and prepare for executive review.
• Draft and facilitate stakeholder communications, reporting and presentations (e.g., AML Risk Assessment Working Group and training sessions).
• Support integration of new acquisitions into the AML Risk Assessment process.
• Support Senior Manager, Specialized Financial Crimes Risk Management, in growing the team's expertise to align with enterprise demand and direction by sharing knowledge, information, skills, and subject matter expertise.
• Support Senior Manager, Specialized Financial Crimes Risk Management, in fostering a cohesive team and the promotion of a positive work environment.
• Support an environment where team freely escalates business challenges; facilitate change through positive reinforcement of milestones and successes. Proactively identify matters that require additional attention, a change in status, or further escalation or review, and liaise with the appropriate partner to rectify same.
• Act as a brand ambassador for risk assessment, AML and the bank, both internally and/or externally, as needed.
• Other duties, as assigned.

Job Requirements

Qualifications/Skills:

• Undergraduate degree or progressive work experience (7+ years relevant experience).
• ACAMS certification is considered an asset.
• Work experience in a second line compliance / risk management function is considered an asset.
• A deep understanding of ML-TF, ABAC, and Sanctions risk assessment (customer, product, geography, delivery channels) best practices is considered an asset.
• Broad understanding of global best practices and global AML-TF, ABAC, and Sanctions regimes and emerging trends.
• Strong proficiency with MS Office (e.g., Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and Word).
• Strong analytical and organizational skills; ability to organize and bring to order data and information, drawing conclusions and making appropriate recommendations.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to synthesize information, distill and communicate complex information (written and oral), adapting to the needs of the audience (including executives and stakeholders) draft reports, procedures, presentations, and business correspondence, as well as present information and respond to questions/requests for information from peers, senior management, and business groups within and across AML.
• Good interpersonal skills and ability to work in a cross-functional team environment to assist with the interaction of risk assessment stakeholders for the execution of the TDBG’s overall ML-TF, ABAC, and Sanctions risk assessment program.
• Flexible with the ability to adapt to change and take initiative to complete job requirements while balancing competing workload requirements.
• Strong process improvement and development skills to automate and refine manual processes.
• Strong ability to work independently, apply critical thinking, and to exercise sound judgement in making decisions and escalating, as appropriate.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline focused environment and manage deadlines while multi-tasking between different projects.
• Ability to challenge and influence others' actions and decisions without express authority.
• Ability to handle confidential information with discretion.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to identify and recommend process improvements and/or automation opportunities to enhance the productivity and operational efficiency of the team.
• Organized, self starter with a high degree of personal initiative and integrity.
• Well-developed project management, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills with a proven ability to lead, develop, coordinate, and implement projects plans and activities to completion.