Senior Aml Compliance Associate
CurrentOverview: Perform onboarding of new corporate and private accounts along with Transaction Monitoring and Sanctions Screening.Key Responsibilities:▪ Onboard Corporate Accounts: Receive various Canadian and American corporate account applications and ensure they are onboarded in a timely manner. Onboarded various accounts such as corporate, non-profits, trust, estate, money service business (MSB) accounts. Conducted KYC due diligence searches, reviewing client information, and obtaining… Show more Overview: Perform onboarding of new corporate and private accounts along with Transaction Monitoring and Sanctions Screening.Key Responsibilities:▪ Onboard Corporate Accounts: Receive various Canadian and American corporate account applications and ensure they are onboarded in a timely manner. Onboarded various accounts such as corporate, non-profits, trust, estate, money service business (MSB) accounts. Conducted KYC due diligence searches, reviewing client information, and obtaining public documentation. Ensure all corporate account on-boarding processes align with local and international regulatory guidelines▪ Onboard Private Accounts: Receive Canadian and American private accounts. Conducted due diligence on the customer. Verified ID card and documents such as utility bills and bank statements as proof of address.▪ Training: Trained first line of defense (1LOD) on transaction monitoring, private accounts, and KYC/CDD for corporate accounts. Received and handled escalations from 1LOD regarding potential AML concerns. Effectively communicated with 1LOD to gather additional information and provide guidance on escalated issues.▪ Transaction Monitoring: Using Soteria to look at transactions that are alerted by specific rules. Conducting a review of the payment in OMNI and CRM to gather knowledge on the client and beneficiary. Reviewing the reason of trade and supporting documentation. Making sure the activity is reasonable and making appropriate information requests to the account executive for more information.▪ Sanctions Screening: Using ASM Compliance Link to review matches that screening against multiple watch lists. Making sure the client is not sending funds to sanctioned entity or country. Escalating matches if we have a match and requesting additional information if needed. Show less