4 month contract 

Candidate can be located anywhere within Canada.

What you would do

• Support Financial Crimes and AML projects as assigned by clients including:
• Apply high standards of accuracy and quality to daily AML alerts regarding wire payments on hold, or other escalations such as referrals from financial crimes teams or other internal teams.
• Collaborate with business partners or correspondent banks to gather further information, identify high risk clients and complete due diligence measures.
• Conduct periodic, quarterly and/or annual reviews using client systems such as SAS, Actimize and Oracle and other AML monitoring systems.
• Prepare case documentation as per client procedures, closing the case thereby ensuring compliance with strict quality assurance standards.
• Perform any other tasks for AML Compliance projects such as but not limited to backlog remediation, outsourcing of compliance testing, support of internal audit work, etc.

Must haves:

• 1 - 4 years of Financial Services Industry experience.
• Experience in compliance and financial crimes roles.
• Experience with AML in Crypto sector
• Strong analytical and critical thinking acumen is a MUST; as well as the ability to work with certain levels of ambiguity and work autonomously with minimal guidance.
• Strong understanding of industry common screening and transaction monitoring tools such as: SAS, Actimize, Oracle, World-check, Lexis Nexis, Refinitiv and others.
• Experience managing alerts and navigating alert review processes/programs in a Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) environment.
• Strong knowledge of the AML legislative requirements including FINTRAC guidelines.