Senior Manager – Financial Crimes

Overview
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With the objective of continuing to grow and realize its full potential, our Financial Crimes practice in the Montreal office is looking for an experienced Manager or Senior Manager to help develop its service offering and grow its team.

In compliance with laws and industry best practices, we work closely with our clients to identify, manage, and mitigate their exposition to financial crime, by acting as advisory experts on the following matters:

• Anti-money laundering
• Economic sanctions
• Anti-tax evasion
• Anti-corruption
• Fraud

What you will do
You will be involved in a variety of projects with clients exclusively in the financial crime industry. You will work closely with the practice partners on advisory projects and will contribute to business development.

Also, as a Manager or Senior Manager, you will have the following responsibilities:

• Coordinate the management and execution of financial crimes projects.
• Lead a team of financial crime consultants while ensuring that the quality of the team’s deliverables meets KPMG’s standards of excellence and clients’ needs.
• Act as subject matter expert on financial crimes advisory so that we can provide services in compliance with best practices, legal requirements, and the firm’s standards of excellence.
• Supervise and train team members.
• Act as a point of contact with clients to strengthen existing relationships.
• Support the lines of defense in deploying financial crimes programs.
• Assess risks (financial crimes (money laundering, tax evasion, economic sanctions), fraud (internal/external), third party or regulatory compliance) across the organization.
• Help clients to have a comprehensive view of their operational and regulatory risks, thus allowing them to reduce their risk exposure.
• Assist clients in various risk management engagements including, but not limited to, identifying risk appetite, identifying processes, assessing the adequacy of the design and effectiveness of controls in place, to ensure compliance with legislative and regulatory requirements.
• Participate in the deployment of new technologies in financial crimes and/or lead the proposals.
• Provide sound advice on risk governance strategy and adapt it to client needs.

More generally, you will have to:

• Contribute to business development activities to well position KPMG’s Financial Crime Advisory Services regionally and nationally.
• Increase the visibility of the practice by participating in events or writing articles about financial crimes.
• Develop service offerings according to practice standards.
• Maintain a continuous awareness of emerging financial crimes trends and risks.

What you bring to the role

• At least 10 years of experience in the areas of anti-financial crimes.
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, criminology, finance, business, or related field.
• Master’s degree or graduate degree in financial crimes or related field is considered an asset.
• Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Certified Financial Crimes Specialist (ACFCS), Economic Sanctions Specialist (CSS) certifications or equivalent designations will be considered an asset.
• Understanding of laws, regulations and best practices related to anti-money laundering, anti-terrorist financing, anti-corruption, tax evasion and economic sanctions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to produce concise and structured presentations and reports.
• Knowledge of the technologies and solutions available on the market for monitoring and assessment of the risk of money laundering
• Understanding of banking, insurance, asset management products and services, and existing technologies in the market.
• Have the willingness to contribute to internal development activities as well as to business development.
• Be customer-oriented, understand their issues and propose value-added solutions.
• Being comfortable with teamwork, coaching and relationship building.
• Be able to perform well under pressure and manage projects, resources, and budgets appropriately.
• Be autonomous, have a sense of initiative and priorities.
• Demonstrate great rigor and attention to details.
• Good knowledge of Excel, Word, Visio, and PowerPoint programs.

Providing you with the support you need to be at your best
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Adjustments and accommodations throughout the recruitment process
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