Director – Canadian Commercial Banking Investigations

Minimum 5 years’ experience in financial crime and/or money laundering investigations
Proven Leadership and Management capabilities for large, diverse teams
Broad knowledge of anti-money laundering related requirements and/or predicate offences including Fraud
Sound knowledge of banking operations

Lead a team of approximately 50 staff (direct and indirect) based in Toronto, Bedford and/or Vancouver responsible for AML related investigations involving clients for specified business line(s) within mandate (e.g., Canadian retail banking and wealth management client(s), Caribbean retail clients, correspondent banking clients, and/or US retail banking)
Member of the strategic leadership for the Financial Crimes Investigation teams
Manage the flow of investigation cases ensuring that all cases are worked in a timely manner and overall queue(s) of work are within agreed upon benchmarks
Continue the ongoing transformation of team from an independent investigations centre to a team of compliance and risk management professionals, integrated with Global AML Compliance
Support the development and implementation of action plans in response to issues identified by internal oversight functions and regulatory entities
Support the investigations program to ensure it is consistent with RBC’s Collective Ambition and Leadership Model
Act as a change agent to ensure AML FIU is an effective and efficient investigations unit
Support the AML program through the development of production metrics and reporting, as needed
Work with the transaction monitoring rules development team to enhance the effectiveness AML rules and investigations