AML TDI Transaction Monitoring Sr. Consultant

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The US Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Transformation, Delivery, and Insights (TDI) team is a forward-thinking risk analytics group dedicated to driving innovation in anti-money laundering through advanced data analytics, technology, and strategic transformation. The team enhances the bank’s capabilities in transaction monitoring, customer risk rating, sanctions screening, and data governance, helping to ensure CIBC remains at the forefront of financial crime prevention.

What You’ll Be Doing

Reporting to the Senior Manager, AML TDI Transaction Monitoring (TM), the Sr. Consultant is a key member of the team. This person will be a highly organized, technically capable, and a detail-oriented individual that will need to collaborate with the business and fellow TDI colleagues to support the operation and management of the Company's AML Transaction Monitoring AML/BSA program, focused on rule development, above-the-line and below-the-line tuning, and transactional data insights utilizing SQL/Python/SAS within SAS Viya and external tools.  The individual will also assist senior team members with Model Risk Management and related oversight activities – both drafting comprehensive model documentation and researching validator findings / regulatory feedback – to ensure models remain fully compliant and defensible. The individual will leverage their experience in hands-on rule development and tuning to execute the Bank’s transaction monitoring rule analytics, development, and tuning processes, while also supporting new projects and initiatives.

At CIBC, we enable the work environment most optimal for you to thrive in your role. You’ll have the flexibility to manage your work activities within a hybrid work arrangement, spending 2-3 days per week on-site in our Chicago office, with the remaining days working remotely.

How you'll succeed

• You give meaning to data. You leverage advanced analytics and statistical modeling to translate complex AML data into actionable insights that drive business and compliance outcomes.
• You act as an analytics owner. You take initiative with the end-to-end management, development, and optimization of SAS Viya-based AML transaction monitoring rules and models.
• You thrive on advanced techniques. You apply quantitative analysis, AML expertise, and data science techniques to enhance model performance and reduce false positives, ensuring appropriate risk coverage.
• You collaborate for impact. You work closely with risk, model validation, IT, and data teams to ensure model integrity, regulatory compliance, and data pipeline reliability.
• You deliver under pressure. You efficiently manage multiple priorities, supporting business-as-usual activities, projects, audits, regulatory reviews, and model validation documentation in a demanding environment.
• You communicate clearly. You present technical findings and recommendations in a clear, concise manner to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• You embrace innovation. You look for ways to improve existing processes and stay current with industry best practices in AML analytics and data science.
• Values matter to you. You bring your real self to work, and you live our values – trust, teamwork, and accountability.

Who you are

• You’re a seasoned professional with 2–5+ years of technical experience in financial services risk management, specializing in AML transaction monitoring analytics, modeling, and data analysis.
• You demonstrate experience and expertise with 2–5+ years of direct hands-on experience executing the analysis, development, and tuning of AML transaction