Anti-Money Laundering Business Analyst

Title: AML BA IV Duration: 12 MonthsLocation: Toronto, ON-2 days onsite for nowPay Rate: $60/hr onwardsAs the Senior Business Analyst, you will:Ability to lead other Business Analysts on the Program to ensure there is governance across the Pods as it relates to Requirements gathering and documentation.Lead Requirements work packages for large-sized, high-risk, strategic, and regulatory projects or programsLead development of a delivery approach and work plan, aligned with the project milestone dates and considering constraints, dependencies and strategic driversEstimate, forecast and manage the requirements effort, including cost, resource and timelineManage requirements interdependencies among multiple work streams or projectsEstablish a process to ensure requirements captured are complete, concise, accurate, compliant with methodology and standards, and are testableEngage, enable, and lead stakeholders to final agreement and sign-off of the deliverablesAssess change requests and their impacts, checking for alignment to initiative objectives at all stagesIdentify and manage risks and issues, escalating to senior management and partners where appropriateIdentify, document and validate current state processes and capabilitiesSupport business with defining the business need or problem and identifying potential solutionsAnalyze impacts to customers, stakeholders, employees, processes, technology and budgets of selected solutionsUnderstand, challenge, categorize, prioritize and document business requirementsJob RequirementsMust have a minimum of 8 - 10 years of project/program Business Analysis experience in the Financial Services Industry, following Waterfall and Agile methodologiesMust have Sound knowledge of Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Excel, Visio, Word, PowerPoint, and ProjectMust know Anti-Money Laundering concepts like KYC (Know Your Customer), Customer Due Diligence (CDD), and Regulatory Reporting - Large Cash Transaction Reporting (LCTR), Suspicious Transaction Reporting (STR), etc., and regulations (FINTRAC).Experience working with Transaction Monitoring and Customer Risk Rating applications that are used to monitor Money Laundering (ML) and Terrorist Financing (TF) activities and customers.Experience working with data analysis and understanding of data lineage, data quality, and source-to-target mapping.Experience using SharePoint, JIRA, and ConfluenceStrong team player with excellent communication, relationship management, consensus building, and influencing skillsProactive and highly motivated individual with good work ethic and time management skillsAn independent thinker with strong business acumen, analytical and conceptualization skills, and the ability to identify process improvements as necessaryAbility to learn quickly, promote a positive team environment, and exceed expectations with minimal supervisionEffective interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal, are essential.Nice to have:AML sanctions certs- nice to have