Aml and Registration Analyst

AML and Registration Analyst
Permanent

30 Adelaide Str, East
Toronto, Ontario, M5C 3G9
Canada
**Imagine yourself at IFDS**
Come experience a community like no other at International Financial Data Services (IFDS). We offer work opportunities driven by a passion for creating market leading financial solutions, and a culture that nurtures collaboration, accountability, diversity & inclusion, and continuous learning. We’ll provide you with opportunities to develop your career. From ongoing training and development programs to experiences working with our global financial services partners, you’ll be able to realize your full potential.

**Who we are**
With its global headquarters in Toronto, Canada, International Financial Data Services (IFDS) is a world-leading provider of outsourcing and technology solutions to the financial services industry. IFDS services over 240 financial organizations around the world, providing solutions to a wide range of global asset managers, wealth managers, banks, and insurance companies. With employees and partners located throughout Canada, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, the IFDS enterprise supports more than 17 million accounts with AUA of approximately CAD $4 trillion. IFDS Canada, Ireland, and Luxembourg are 50/50 joint ventures between Boston-based State Street Corporation, one of the world’s leading providers of financial services to institutional investors, and Connecticut-based SS&C Technologies, a global provider of investment and financial software-enabled services and software for the global financial services and healthcare industries.

**Job overview**

An AML and Registration Analyst primarily review documentation for new customer accounts, pre-existing accounts and ongoing shareholder maintenance to ensure that they are compliant with the procedural requirements. This includes evaluating low, medium and high risk accounts. In addition the team is responsible for all New Account Setups and Static Data Changes New Dealer Setups.

**General responsibilities**

Actively and effectively manages the day-to-day customer service delivery model for assigned clients by:

- Liaising with the Client(s), Management and Compliance to ensure all AML/KYC requirements are met during the administration new and pre-existinginvestors/broker set-ups and maintenances, including assessing investor/broker documentation and the required holistic risk analysis;
- Communicating with and advising clients, investors, colleagues and other IFDS/State Street/Client offices in Luxembourg and Ireland on the AML/KYC requirements;
- Assessing and completing various internal reports and forms (e.g. transaction profile, acceptance, suspicious activity reports, escalation reports, etc.);
- Assisting the management team with escalations and issues;
- Reporting internally possible suspicious and/or unusual transactions in line with applicable reporting policies and procedures to the AML Manager and/or Money Laundering Reporting Officer;
- Managing escalations, complaints and incidents quickly and efficiently, ensuring legal, regulatory and internal rules are upheld at all times;
- Assisting with upholding internal AML/KYC policies and procedures;
- Obtaining requirements from clients to ensure adherence to established policies and procedures; liaison with clients for missing documentation;
- Strongly adhering to existing procedures and controls in place and pro-actively react when foreseeing issues; ensuring that checklist, job aids and system changes are updated and followed;
- Initiating problem recovery, correction strategies, procedural and process enhancements; taking concrete steps to prevent and to reduce error reoccurrences in the future;
- Recognizing the importance of accuracy and high standards of quality during monitoring and execution of Registration tasks;
- Analyzing and evaluating complex problems/issues linked to controls or maintenance of registered shareholder and broker;
- Responsible for the administration of KYC/AML legal requirements upon day to day transactions.

**Critical Requirements**
- Post-secondary education in a related discipline
- Must be willing to work US and Canadian Holidays
- Willingness to work in an environment with flexible schedules (i.e mid to late shift) that is driven by client commitments and high volumes
- Must be flexible and able to work overtime from time to time
- Previous experience in a service oriented environment; strong client focus
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Very strong ability to organize and prioritize work
- Team Player, able to work in a team environment with shared goals and accountabilities
- Highly degree of attention to detail to ensure 100% accuracy on all transactions
- Strong research/information gathering/analytical and problem-solving skills - takes a logical approach to analyzing problems
- Understands the business impact of escalated incidents and service requests
- Positiveimpact - performs in a manner that mak