Customer Adverse Media Screening Analyst

Work Location:

Mount Laurel, New Jersey, United States of America

Hours:

40

Pay Details:

$22.50 - $32.50 USD

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Line of Business:

Financial Crime Risk Management

Job Description:

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 Center of Excellence is being established to handle all initial alert adjudication and escalation globally, including Sanctions, Politically Exposed Persons, Money Services Business, Negative Media, and additional Prevention and Detection-related alerts. This role centers on Negative Media screening. Analysts in the Center of Excellence will conduct first-level review of Negative Media alerts, checking for accuracy and materiality. Training will be provided to ensure alignment with the team's name-matching standards.

The Customer Adverse Media Screening Analyst provides a broad range of support and/or performs general to specialized money laundering detection activities, review of transactions and/or other processing activities.

Depth & Scope:

• Works within established guidelines, accountable for completing routine transactions or low-moderate risk, repetitive processes within a standardized framework
• Completes transactions using a limited number of systems and/or applications
• Manages their own workload, coordinating tasks and services with others
• Identifies and assesses issues in straight forward situations using standard procedures, and escalates non-standard issues internally; typically addressing routine requests requiring minimal discretion
• Minimal decision-making authority
• Limited or first level (initial) interaction with internal partners
• Requires working knowledge and skills developed through formal training or work experience

Education & Experience:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent work experience 

Preferred Skills:

• Prior experience with due diligence assessment at a financial institution
• Attention to detail
• Consistency across high-volume work

Customer Accountabilities:

• Performs routine to broad tasks, follows established procedures, and investigates straightforward problems to identify and implement the most suitable solution
• Completes investigations – reports/escalates risk issues or process gaps identified
• Performs a variety of AML and Sanctions/ABAC information gathering activities as a part of FCRM regulations
• Supports AML and Sanctions/ABAC related activities and transactions to resolve business issues
• Reviews banking transactions to ensure they are within the bank and regulatory thresholds and guidelines
• Forwards unusual transactions and supporting information for further review
• Performs a variety of research activities including addressing research discrepancies
• Identifies opportunities to improve service delivery and support process improvement initiatives

Shareholder Accountabilities:

• Prioritizes own workload to meet SLA requirements for servi