AML Business Analyst IV

Job Title: AML Business Analyst IV
Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid)
Estimated Duration: 12 Months

As the Senior Business Analyst you will:

• Ability to lead other Business Analysts on the Program to ensure there is governance across the Pods as it relates to Requirements gathering and documentation.
• Leads Requirements work packages for large sized, high risk, strategic and regulatory projects or programs
• Lead development of a delivery approach and work plan, aligned with the project milestone dates and considering constraints, dependencies and strategic drivers
• Estimate, forecast and manage the requirements effort including cost, resource and timeline
• Manage requirements interdependencies among multiple work streams or projects
• Establish a process to ensure requirements captured are completed, concise, accurate, compliant to methodology and standards, and are testable
• Engage, enable and lead stakeholders to final agreement and signoff of the deliverables
• Assess change requests and their impacts, checking for alignment to initiative objectives at all stages
• Identify and manage risks and issues, escalating to senior management and partners where appropriate
• Identify, document and validate current state processes and capabilities
• Support business with defining the business need or problem and identifying potential solutions
• Analyze impacts to customers, stakeholders, employees, process, technology and budgets of selected solutions
• Understand, challenge, categorize, prioritize and document business requirements

Job Requirements

• Must have a minimum of 8 – 10 years of project/program Business Analysis experience in the Financial Services Industry following Waterfall and Agile methodology
• Must have Sound knowledge of Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Excel, Visio, Word, Power Point and Project
• Must have knowledge of Anti-Money Laundering concepts like KYC (Know Yor Customer), Customer Due Diligence (CDD) and Regulatory Reporting – Large Cash Transaction Reporting (LCTR), Suspicious Transaction Reporting (STR), etc. and regulations (FINTRAC).
• Experience working with Transaction Monitoring and Customer Risk Rating applications that are used to monitor Money Laundering (ML) and Terrorist Financing (TF) activities and customers.
• Experience working with data analysis and understanding of data lineage, data quality and source to target mapping.
• Experience using SharePoint, JIRA and Confluence
• Strong team player with excellent communication, relationship management, consensus building and influencing skills
• Proactive and highly motivated individual with good work ethic and time management skills
• An independent thinker with strong business acumen, analytical and conceptualization skills, and the ability to identify process improvements as necessary
• Ability to learn quickly, promote a positive team environment, and exceed expectations with minimal supervision
• Effective interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal are essential.

Nice to have:

• AML sanction certs- nice to have