Senior Compliance Officer, AML
Ventum Financial View all jobs
- Vancouver, BC
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Help to implement and manage the AML/ATF Program, including firm wide AML training
- Conduct risk assessment to identify areas of vulnerability
- Monitoring and investigation of transaction, KYC and client due diligence
- Co-ordinate biannual controls effectiveness
- Filing suspicious transaction reports or other transaction reports to FINTRAC as necessary
- Conduct client due diligence and assign risk scores for KYC
- Conduct names screening at KYC and ongoing for CDD
- Transaction monitoring daily, monthly and quarterly per risk scores
- Monitor clients assigned enhanced due diligence
- Monitor ATF/PEP/Country watch lists for client due diligence and remediation if necessary
- Prepare and submit UTR, STR or other reporting as required
- Conduct annual risk assessment and report results to Compliance Committee
- Ensure Controls Effectiveness Testing on conducted on a bi-annual basis
- Escalate concerns to CAMLO, Senior Management and to Advisors
- Prepare regular AML reports on findings of supervision activities
- Administer the AML/ATF Policies and Procedures to ensure compliance with Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act
- Ensure proper recordkeeping and audit trails of investigations, remediation and final outcomes
- Administer the AML Training program
- Other financial crimes tasks as assigned
- University degree in a related field of finance or economics
- CAMS certification
- Relevant CSI courses or able to satisfy the new Proficiency Requirement for Supervision under CIRO Rule 2600 an asset
- Minimum 3-5 years of relevant securities industry and professional experience within a financial institution
- Familiar with rules and regulations of PCMLTFA, FINTRAC, CIRO and other AML related regulations or rules
- Knowledge of securities industry’s regulatory compliance practices, procedures and principles applicable to Securities legislation and regulation
- Understanding of the operations, organization and infrastructure of a financial institution
- Have an understanding of securities and regulatory and industry knowledge
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Office
- Maintain standards of skill, care and diligence in professional activities
- Familiarity with the Position Watch database system is an asset
- An ability to handle a multitude of tasks simultaneously and to thrive, with grace and humour, under pressure
- Familiarity with the Dataphile Database system is an asset
- Client facing team
- Support team
- Operations
- Senior Management
- FINTRAC
- CIRO
- Industry and peer groups
- Legal Counsel