Compliance Officer, Risk Officer and MLRO (Canada and US)

📋 Description

• Build, then keep current, each entity's written compliance program, with policies approved by a
• Assess money laundering, terrorist financing and sanctions-evasion risk across clients, products
• Set the outside compliance provider's scope, review its work and sign off what it produces.
• Run the written, ongoing training program and its training plan for staff and anyone acting for the
• Keep each entity's registrations current: the money services business registration with FINTRAC and
• Lead regulator examinations and requests for information, and answer due-diligence requests from

🎯 Requirements

• At least 7 years in anti-money-laundering and sanctions compliance at money services businesses
• Deep knowledge of Canada's Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act and
• Has built a compliance program, not only run one: written its policies, risk assessment and
• Has decided on and filed suspicious transaction reports, and has run transaction monitoring and
• Has taken a business through a FINTRAC, bank-partner or audit examination and closed the findings.
• Due diligence on business clients, including clients that pay out for their own customers, and on

🎁 Benefits

• Can be learned here, or nice to have: The US Bank Secrecy Act, FinCEN reporting and OFAC sanctions.
• Can be learned here, or nice to have: Operational risk and incident response frameworks.
• Can be learned here, or nice to have: Cross-border business payments with foreign exchange, or
• Can be learned here, or nice to have: US state money transmission licensing.
• Can be learned here, or nice to have: Payout corridors in Asia-Pacific.
• Can be learned here, or nice to have: Has managed outsourced compliance providers or set up