About the position
The US Financial Crime Risk Management (FCRM) Group is responsible for the detection, investigation, and reporting of potential money laundering and terrorist financing activities conducted through TD Bank. The various screening processes conducted by the Financial Crimes Name Screening Operations Team are a key element of the adjudication and escalation activities conducted by US FCRM to manage TD Bank's anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing risk, sanctions, and compliance obligations. The Name Screening Operations team screens against various watchlists containing potential matches, and acts as the primary identification point in analyzing and escalating potential matches to watchlist individuals. As part of an ongoing transformation of the Name Screening Operations team, a new AML Escalations function is being established internal to the team, which will be responsible for evaluating and determining materiality of confirmed instances of Politically Exposed Persons, Money Services Businesses, and occurrences of Negative Media. This Manager will play a key role in setting up this new group, including assisting in procedure and process development, staffing, training, and ongoing management.
Responsibilities
- Provides people management leadership by hiring the best talent, setting goals, developing employees, managing employee performance and compensation decisions, promoting teamwork and handling any/all disciplinary actions, as required
- Expert level professional role requiring in-depth knowledge/expertise in own domain/field of specialty and working knowledge of broader related areas
- Integrates the broader organizational context into advice and solutions within own area
- Understands the industry, competition and the factors that differentiate the organization
- Applies best practices to implement process, product or service improvements
- Acts as a subject matter expert within their own area of specialty or a resource for others
- Leads projects of moderately to complex risk and resource requirements; may lead end-to-end processes or functional programs
- Contributes to setting standards within area of expertise
- Solves complex problems requiring analysis of multiple variables, including consultation with multiple stakeholders
- Uses advanced methods to contribute to new solutions and recommends standards against which others will operate
- Impacts a range of functional programs and operations across own and related teams
- Interprets guidelines, standards, policies and results of analysis to inform decision making at senior levels
- Builds stakeholder alignment in leading projects and activities; may provide process and subject matter advice at senior levels
Requirements
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent work experience
- 5+ years of experience
Nice-to-haves
- 3+ years AML experience, particularly in the PEP, MSB, and / or Negative Media space
- 3+ years people management experience
- Procedure and process design
- Change leadership
- Executive communication and reporting
Benefits
- Base salary and variable compensation/incentive awards
- 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
