AML Business Data Manager

TD • Fort Lauderdale, FL

3d • $96,130 - $155,950 • Onsite

About The Position

The AML Business Data Manager will lead a team of business data analysts responsible for the implementation, enhancement, and maintenance of the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Transaction Monitoring (TM) platform for TD Securities. This role requires strong domain expertise in Securities Compliance, a clear understanding of core product features and transaction patterns in capital markets, and hands-on familiarity with transaction monitoring platforms like Actimize. The candidate will translate business requirements into detection logic, collaborate with Technology, Data, and Modeling teams, and ensure solutions meet risk coverage objectives. Engagement with Audit and Compliance stakeholders for issue validation and remediation is also a key aspect of this role. This position provides technical leadership within the Analytics function, offering deep technical knowledge to explain complex data analysis to clients.

Requirements

• Authorization to work in the United States without current or future need for TD sponsorship.
• Strong domain expertise in Securities Compliance.
• Clear understanding of core product features and transaction patterns for trading, lending, and funding activities within a capital markets environment.
• Working knowledge of trade lifecycle events and their intersection with AML and Trade Surveillance obligations.
• Hands-on familiarity with transaction monitoring platforms such as Actimize (including scenario/rule logic) or equivalent tools.
• Ability to translate typology driven requirements into implementable detection logic.
• Ability to articulate business requirements.
• Ability to challenge technical assumptions.
• Effective engagement with Audit and Compliance stakeholders.
• Undergraduate degree or advanced technical degree preferred (e.g., math, physics, engineering, finance or computer science).
• Graduate's degree preferred with either progressive project work experience or 5+ year of relevant experience; higher degree education and research tenure can be counted.
• 3+ years of AML Transaction Monitoring Business Analyst experience.
• Actimize experience.
• Uses a wide range of programming languages (e.g. Python) and techniques for extracting and preparing data.
• Applying statistics and various advanced analytics.
• Business acumen to extract insights from big data.
• Visualizes insights from the data to tell and illustrate stories that clearly convey the meaning of results to decision-makers and stakeholders at every level of technical understanding.
• Analytical thought leadership.
• Stays current on developments in data mining and the application of data science.
• Solicits and offers ideas for improving business processes through insights with the objective of improving effectiveness and efficiency.
• Educates the organization on approaches, such as testing hypotheses and statistical validation of result.
• Helps the organization understand the principles and the math behind the scientist process to drive organizational alignment.
• Translates up to date information into continuous improvement activities that enhances performance.
• Adheres to enterprise frameworks or methodologies that relate to activities for business area.
• Ensures respective programs/policies/practices are well managed, meet business needs, comply with internal and external requirements, and align with business priorities.
• Participates in cross-functional/enterprise initiatives as a subject matter expert helping to identify risk/provide guidance for complex situations.
• Monitors service, productivity and assesses efficiency levels within own function and implements continuous process/performance improvements where opportunities exist.
• Leads/facilitates and/or implements action/remediation plans to address performance/risk/governance issues.
• Actively manages relationships within and across various business lines, corporate and/or control functions and ensures alignment with enterprise and/or regulatory requirements.
• Keeps abreast of emerging issues, trends, and evolving regulatory requirements and assesses potential impacts.
• Maintains a culture of risk management and control, supported by effective processes in alignment with risk appetite.
• Participates fully as a member of the team, supports a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork and ensures timely communication of issues/points of interest.
• Provides thought leadership and/or industry knowledge for own area of expertise in own area and participates in knowledge transfer within the team and business unit.
• Keeps current on emerging trends/developments and grows knowledge of the business, related tools and techniques.
• Participates in personal performance management and development activities, including cross training within own team.
• Keeps others informed and up to date about the status/progress of projects and/or all relevant or useful information related to day-to-day activities.
• Contributes to team development of skills and capabilities through mentorship of others, by sharing knowledge and experiences and leveraging best practices.
• Leads, motivates and develops relationships with internal and external business partners/stakeholders to develop productive working relationships.
• Contributes to a fair, positive and equitable environment that supports a diverse workforce.
• Acts as a brand ambassador for your business area/function and the bank, both internally and/or externally.
• Performing sedentary work – Continuous
• Performing multiple tasks – Continuous
• Operating standard office equipment - Continuous
• Concentrating for long periods of time – Continuous
• Applying common sense to deal with problems involving standardized situations – Continuous
• Reading, writing and comprehending instructions – Continuous
• Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing – Continuous

Nice To Haves

• 3+ years exposure to securities and/or markets experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of business data analysts responsible for the implementation, enhancement, and maintenance of the AML Transaction Monitoring platform for TD Securities.
• Translate typology-driven requirements into implementable detection logic.
• Partner closely with Technology, Data, and Modeling teams to drive end-to-end delivery from data sourcing through to model execution and tuning.
• Articulate business requirements and challenge technical assumptions.
• Ensure implemented solutions meet intended risk coverage.
• Engage effectively with Audit and Compliance stakeholders to support issue validation, remediation planning, and closure of regulatory or internal audit findings.
• Provide technical leadership across the overall Analytics function.
• Explain complex data analysis related material to clients.
• Identify opportunities and serve as an ambassador for data science.
• Translate business problems into viable data science solutions.
• Extract and prepare data using a wide range of programming languages (e.g., Python) and techniques.
• Apply statistics and advanced analytics to extract insights from big data.
• Visualize insights from data to convey meaning to decision-makers and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with data and business analysts, software engineers, data engineers, and application developers to develop scalable data science solutions.
• Stay current on developments in data mining and the application of data science.
• Solicit and offer ideas for improving business processes through insights.
• Educate the organization on approaches such as testing hypotheses and statistical validation.
• Help the organization understand the principles and math behind the scientist process.
• Translate up-to-date information into continuous improvement activities.
• Adhere to enterprise frameworks or methodologies.
• Ensure respective programs/policies/practices are well managed, meet business needs, comply with requirements, and align with business priorities.
• Participate in cross-functional/enterprise initiatives as a subject matter expert.
• Monitor service, productivity, and assess efficiency levels within own function and implement improvements.
• Lead/facilitate and/or implement action/remediation plans to address performance/risk/governance issues.
• Manage relationships within and across various business lines, corporate and/or control functions.
• Keep abreast of emerging issues, trends, and evolving regulatory requirements.
• Maintain a culture of risk management and control.
• Participate fully as a member of the team, support a positive work environment, and ensure timely communication.
• Keep current on emerging trends/developments and grow knowledge of the business, tools, and techniques.
• Participate in personal performance management and development activities.
• Keep others informed about project status and relevant information.
• Contribute to team development of skills and capabilities through mentorship.
• Lead, motivate, and develop relationships with internal and external business partners/stakeholders.
• Contribute to a fair, positive, and equitable environment that supports a diverse workforce.
• Act as a brand ambassador for your business area/function and the bank.

Benefits

• Base salary and variable compensation/incentive awards (e.g., eligibility for cash and/or equity incentive awards, generally through participation in an incentive plan)
• Health and well-being benefits
• Savings and retirement programs
• Paid time off (including Vacation PTO, Flex PTO, and Holiday PTO)
• Banking benefits and discounts
• Career development
• Reward and recognition
• Training programs
• Mentoring programs

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager