Jr. AML Analyst – KYC/EDD

If you are a self-confident, self motivated person with a strong work ethic and excellent communication skills and you enjoy a fast-paced team-driven environment, contact us today!

Working with one of the top financial clients, this role calls for a Jr. AML Analyst – KYC/EDD who will be assisting in ensuring that high-risk Personal and Business banking customers have complete Know Your Customer (KYC) and Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) in place as required. This candidate will be assessing KYC and EDD, documenting these in the proprietary case management system, and recommending whether a customer relationship should be approved (maintained) or declined (demarketed). Successful candidates will ideally have banking backgrounds/knowledge, be highly organized, and be able to ramp up to support 50-70 cases at a time.

Responsibilities:

Manage AML KYC personal/business requests for information (RFI), Customer Due Diligence (CDD) and Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) requests from the AML FIU.
Analyze and assess KYC reviews that may be complex and require knowledge of several different product lines.
Document actions and information found throughout the KYC review to develop and maintain account/case files
Analyze data and information to provide insights and recommendations
Prepare reports, notifications and recommendations per guidelines and standards designed to minimize risk exposure
Exercises judgment to identify, diagnose, and solve problems within given rules
Works mostly independently.
Broader work or accountabilities may be assigned as needed
Desired Skill Set:

1-2+ yrs relevant experience
Knowledge of risk and regulatory requirements as they apply to financial crimes is an asset.
Knowledge of banking products, services, processes, and organization is an asset.
Previous banking experience preferred
Specialized knowledge from education and/or business experience.
Verbal & written communication skills – In-depth.
Comfortable in a fast-paced/high-volume environment (supporting 50-70 cases at a time)
Organized
Detail Oriented
Team Player
Collaboration & team skills – In-depth.
Analytical and problem-solving skills – In-depth.
Influence skills – In-depth.
ACAMS certified or equivalent (preferred)