Compliance Officer

**Responsibilities**:
**DIVISION DESCRIPTION**

The Compliance Department enables the firm to operate according to essential compliance standards, ensures that Société Générale’s non-compliance and reputation risks are controlled, while supporting the business with existing activities and in the development of new products or services.

**ABOUT THE JOB**:
The Societe Generale U.S. Compliance Department is looking to hire individuals in Montreal as an extension of its U.S. team in the following divisions: Financial Crime Compliance, Digital Transformation Office, Testing, Monitoring & Risk Assessment and Capital Markets Surveillance.

The Transaction Monitoring Group (“TMG”), within Financial Crime Compliance, manages the rules and parameters used in the Bank’s and Broker Dealer’s automated transaction monitoring system, reviews alerts generated by the system, and conducts investigations for potential SAR filings. TMG also conducts Targeted Account Reviews of certain foreign correspondent bank customers and provides targeted training to SGUS employees on AML industry development sand red flags. TMG also files Suspicious Activity Reports (“SARs”) with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) when necessary and is responsible for complying with Section 314 of the USA PATRIOT Act.

**WHAT WILL BE YOUR DAY-TO-DAY?**
- Act as the first level reviewer in making initial alert decisions as well as determining the specific information needed to manage the investigation.
- Manage a queue of alerts and cases ensuring timely follow up of requests and adherence to escalation procedures.
- Assist the TMG with analysis to optimize processes for improving monitoring.
- Assist other members of AML Compliance with ad hoc analysis and investigation requests.
- Perform analysis and duties pursuant to obligations under the USA PATRIOT Act (Sections 314(a) and 314(b) requests).
- Conduct targeted account reviews on high-risk correspondent banking clients and analyze from a holistic view of customers in terms of products, services, and underlying transactions as well as escalate potential issues.
- Prepare SAR Committee summary narratives, present cases to the SAR Committee.
- Review and analyze AML current trends and news to identify high risk areas, counterparties, or keywords to incorporate into monitoring filters, rules, or profiles.

**Profile required**:
**SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS**:

- Know and understand the laws applicable to money laundering, including the BSA, the USA PATRIOT Act, US Treasury AML guidelines, SARs, and other requirements Strong attention to detail.
- Possess strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills and be able to multi-task, adhering to specific quality and productivity guidelines.
- Strong research skills, advanced skills in the use of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and experience with online research systems including web-based tools.
- Prior AML Surveillance and/or Investigation experience preferred.

**LANGUAGE**:
Ability to communicate in English, both orally and in writing, is a requirement as the person in this position will need to collaborate regularly with colleagues and partners in the United States.

**Why join us**:
**OUR BENEFITS**:
**WHAT WE DO DIFFERENTLY AT SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE**

Competitive compensation & benefits offering, including but not limited to:

- Minimum of 20 Vacation days + 4 personal days
- Supportive Maternity, paternity, parental and adoption leave policy
- Health spending ($2,000/year) and personal spending ($1,000/year) accounts with 75+ eligible reimbursement categories (health, training, electronics etc.)

Fully sponsored virtual healthcare assistance and Employee Assistance Program to you and your immediate family

Various Employee Resource Groups (ERG) to engage with such as Pride and Allies, American Women Network, Black Leadership Network, One planet, etc.
- A culture of continuous development by encouraging our employees various training programs (online training and coaching platform such as Coursera, GoFluent, Pluralsight, First Finance, and others)

**Business insight**:
**OUR CULTURE**:
At Societe Generale, we live by our 4 core values of commitment, responsibility, team spirit and innovation. We are engaged and demonstrate consideration for others. We act ethically and with courage. We focus our talent and energy on collective success. We experiment and propose new ideas. This way, we maximize our ability to serve client needs and anticipate market changes. Societe Generale is committed to strengthening bonds with colleagues, communities, and the world in which we live, because relationships are at the heart of how we operate.
**D&I**:
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