Aml Compliance Program Manager

**Position: AML Compliance Program Manager**

**Reports to: Director, Practice Review**

**Contract type: Indefinite, Full Time**

**Job Summary**
The AML Compliance Program Manager is primarily responsible for supporting the development, implementation and execution of a trust oversight program and procedures to incorporate into the practice review program to support the anti-money laundering initiatives of CPABC. When not working on AML, you will also be involved in the practice inspection of firms against CPA Canada Handbook standards, with the purpose of having them remedy deficiencies in their practice, while also providing an educational experience to the member and firm.

In this role, you will directly contribute to CPABC’s primary mission to protect the public by ensuring compliance with professional standards, rules and policies developed to address the recommendations from the Cullen Inquiry on Money Laundering and further enhance CPABC’s anti-money laundering initiatives, while also balancing the educational mandate of the department.

**Key Responsibilities**:
**_ Expand the Practice Review Program to Incorporate AML_**
- Support the development and execution of CPABC’s program to assess firm compliance with the AML requirements adopted by CPABC, including the questionnaires that will provide CPABC with information on a firm’s existing policies relating to AML obligations under FINTRAC and CPABC rules, Bylaws and Bylaw Regulations.
- Develop resources to support a firm’s compliance with AML requirements.
- Review responses received and follow up with firms

**_Trust Oversight Program_**
- Support the development of the trust account requirements for firms, including the questionnaires that will provide CPABC with information on a firm’s trust accounts.
- Review responses received and follow up with firms.
- Perform more in-depth reviews as necessary.

**_ Practice Inspections_**
- Conduct practice reviews and consistency reviews.
- Manage practice reviews and ensure assignments are completed before due dates.
- Carry out our educational mandate by co-presenting in the annual “Common Deficiencies” professional development course and co-authoring publications in the CPABC Public Practice Knowledge Base.

**_ Other Areas_**
- Work collaboratively with all members of the Public Practice team, and other departments, to ensure effective regulatory oversight of public practitioners.
- Deliver training on the AML program requirements.
- Address questions arising from firms, members or others regarding the new AML requirements.
- Consider AML program improvements and make recommendations for consideration, as appropriate.
- Other duties and responsibilities as assigned from time to time.

**Key Requirements**:

- CPA designation
- 2+ years of post-designation experience in public practice, ideally with experience performing legal or real estate trust audits
- Understanding of Canada’s anti-money laundering regulatory regimes, ideally with some experience/exposure around AML policies and the PCMLTFA
- Strong professional judgment and problem resolution skills
- Effective interpersonal and communication skills; comfortable in dealing with senior management or partners of accounting firms
- Works well with a large dynamic team and able to build good working relationships with colleagues
- Proven ability to effectively prioritize and meet deadlines

**Why join our team? **CPABC offers a balanced and flexible work environment with a competitive compensation package for this exciting and challenging position. At CPABC we live our core values:

- _ We Are Open_
- _We Work Together_
- _We Communicate_
- _We Improve Every Day_
- _We Are Professional_
- _We Laugh and Celebrate_

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