Scotiabank Looking for Associate, GBM Onboarding (12 month contract) at Toronto, Ontario, Canada Full Time

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

Purpose

GBM Onboarding Canada is a critical component in the bank’s overall AML Compliance efforts. The Associate manages a team of Analysts onboarding customers to GBM, ensuring we meet Enterprise-Wide and local onboarding standards, including regulatory requirements and bank-driven due diligence measures. The Associate also ensures Analysts investigate and assess relationships for potential financial, reputational, operational and compliance risk in addition to activities that pose money laundering or terrorist financing risks for GBM clients.

Is this role right for you? In this role, you will:

• Support the Associate Director, in ensuring that the Bank is compliant with regulatory obligations and bank-driven risk measures.
• Manage a team facilitating the onboarding of GBM Canada clients in an efficient, compliant, and client-centric manner, rapidly triaging and escalating complex issues to management for resolution.
• Provide clear, constructive, and regular feedback to analysts, with a focus on personal and professional development.
• Facilitating training and/or improvements to guidance, procedures, processes, technology etc.
• Prioritizing requests for information, establishing response times and escalating requests as required.
• Preparing and escalating High-Risk, PEP and sanctions-related relationships with supporting documents to internal stakeholders for review.
• Championing a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems, and knowledge.
• Acting as an AML subject matter expert to the business and internal stakeholders
• Performing ad-hoc, special, and/or focused data analytics as necessary, as well as other duties and projects as assigned, to support various GBMO projects.
• Understanding how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
• Promoting Diversity and Inclusion groups within the bank and sharing opportunities to participate.

Skills

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? – We’d love to work with you if you have:

• Minimum 3-5 years’ experience in financial services and/ or KYC/AML/ATF
• University degree in business, finance, or law and understanding of global banking and capital markets business.
• Significant preference will be placed on applicants with cash management and/or retail business experience or Capital Markets Regulation experience (IIROC) and/or Dealer Member experience.
• Knowledge of current and anticipated regulatory frameworks impacting client onboarding knowledge of Canadian KYC/AML.CANDER, Dodd Frank, EMIR, MIFID and FATCA knowledge an asset.
• The incumbent should have broad knowledge of the end-to-end workflows among the Front, Middle, and Back Offices.
• Must be able to operate effectively within a stressful environment with changing priorities and tight time frames which are closely scrutinized by Senior/Executive Management
• Preferred: CAMS, CFCS, CGSS or similar certifications
• Proficient with MS Office with experience in data analytics

Work Arrangement: This position is currently a Hybrid role. Please note that this is subject to change based on the needs of the business.

Interested?

At Scotiabank, every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are and, embraced for their differences. That is why we work to grow and diversify talent and engage employees in a performance-oriented culture.

What’s in it for you?

Scotiabank wants you to be able to bring your best self to work – and life, every day. With a focus on holistic well-being, our many flexible benefit programs are designed to help support your unique family, financial, physical, mental, and social health needs.

Location(s): Canada : Ontario : Toronto

Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: “for every future”, we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.

At Scotiabank, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know. If you require technical assistance, please click here. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.