Group Manager, Financial Crime Risk Investigations - US Name Screening Operations – AML Escalations

Work Location:

Mount Laurel, New Jersey, United States of America

Hours:

40

Pay Details:

$86,840 - $139,360 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 AML Escalations function is being established internal to the team, which will be responsible for evaluating and determining materiality of confirmed instances of Politically Exposed Persons, Money Services Businesses, and occurrences of Negative Media. This Group Manager will hold primary responsibility for building out this team, including procedure and process development, staffing, training, and ongoing management.

The Group Manager, Financial Crime Risk Investigations manages/leads a team of specialized professionals in the analysis and/or the investigation process for a specific area and assigns and monitors caseloads to ensure potential regulatory risks and losses to the bank are minimized.

Depth & Scope:

• Provides people management leadership by hiring the best talent, setting goals, developing employees, managing employee performance and compensation decisions, promoting teamwork and handling any/all disciplinary actions, as required
• Manages a team of Investigators for a specific geographical area/business unit
• Demonstrates broad and in-depth knowledge of investigative techniques, proper protocol, and financial criminal trends
• Working Manager role that provides overall direction to the team and assigns and reviews the caseload of others
• Generally involved in thematic and/or more complex investigations that may have significant reputational/ organizational impact
• Ability to present and make recommendations to senior management and executives
• Ensures an integrated approach with other business areas, broader organization, and enterprise as appropriate
• Coordinates and prioritizes multiple initiatives and manages resource allocation
• Establishes effective relationships with different Stakeholders, Business Sponsors, Executives and LOB
• Deep knowledge and understanding of businesses/technology, and organizational practices/disciplines
• Sound to advanced knowledge of external competition, industry and/or market trends in relation to own function/business
• Focuses on short to medium-term issues (e.g., 6-12 months)

Education & Experience:

• Undergraduate degree equivalent work experience
• 7+ years of experience 

Preferred Skills:

• 4+ years AML experience, particularly in the PEP, MSB, and / or Negative Media space
• 4+ years people management experience
• Procedure and process design
• Organization design and implementation
• Change leadership
• Executive communication and reporting

Customer Accountabilities:

• Leads a team of professionals and managers to achieve business/operational objectives, maintains effective