Role Title: AML Analyst
Contract duration: 12 months
Working hours: 37.5 hr per week, 9am-5pm targeted, however flexible between 8am-530pm (8am-4pm, 8:30am-4:30pm, 9:30am-5:30pm)
Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid: 3 days a week in office currently, may change to 4 days a week)
 
Role Mandate:

• The selected candidates will be assisting in ensuring that high-risk Personal and Business banking customers have complete Know Your Customer (KYC) and Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) in place as required.
• They will be assessing KYC and EDD, documenting these in the proprietary case management system, and recommending whether a customer relationship should be approved (maintained) or declined (demarketed). Successful candidates will ideally have banking backgrounds/knowledge, be highly organized, and be able to ramp up to support 90-100 cases at a time.

Team Structure:
Currently, the team has 6 direct peers with a broader team of 10. The work is mostly independent, but there is a healthy collaborative component – as such, candidates should have good interpersonal/team skills.
 
Role Responsibilities:

• Manage AML KYC personal/business requests for information (RFI), Customer Due Diligence (CDD) and Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) requests from the AML FIU.
• Analyze and assess KYC reviews that may be complex and require knowledge on several different product lines.
• Document actions and information found throughout the KYC review to develop and maintain account/case files.
• Analyze data and information to provide insights and recommendations.
• Prepare reports, notifications and recommendations per guidelines and standards designed to minimize risk exposure.
• Exercises judgment to identify, diagnose, and solve problems within given rules.
• Works mostly independently.
• Broader work or accountabilities may be assigned as needed.

 
Must Have Skills:

• 1-2+ yrs AML KYC experience.
• Verbal & written communication skills important - candidates speech and writing should be clear and concise.
• Comfortable in a fast paced/high volume environment (supporting 90-100 cases at a time).
• Specialized knowledge from education and/or business experience.
• Collaboration & team skills - In-depth.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills - In-depth.
• Influence skills - In-depth.
• Organized
• Detail Oriented

Nice to Have Skills:

• Previous banking experience preferred. Former same bank experience will be prioritized.
• ACAMS certified or equivalent.
• Knowledge of risk and regulatory requirements as they apply to financial crimes (FINTRAC).
• Postsecondary education.

 
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 31.02/hr.