12/24/2023

Address:

10151 Deerwood Park Blvd

Job Family Group:

Customer Shared Services

The Financial Crimes Unit (FCU) brings together our Cybersecurity, Fraud, Physical Security and Resilience Planning capabilities to address the ever-growing and increasingly complex global security environment. It is a highly collaborative effort that greatly enhances BMO’s ability to rapidly prevent, detect, respond to, and recover from all security & crisis threats. This position offers a unique experience to learn from experienced leaders in the industry, join a team building the 21st century model for security and helping grow the good by protecting our customers and communities.

• Hybrid role
• Banking experience - preferred
• Regulatory knowledge - preferred

Provides day-to-day oversight and delivery of critical activities in connection with dispute resolution processes. Responsible for coordinating and directing the daily operations of non-exempt onshore and offshore teams. Responsible for ensuring team meets applicable regulatory & association (Mastercard/Visa) requirements such as Reg E, Reg Z, NACHA, GLBA, FCRA, BSA/AML, and internal bank policies and SLAs.

Collaborates with stakeholders to promote efficient and effective processes and workflow, establish positive working relationships across the organization and to achieve business results and deliver the intended customer and employee experience.

Conducts investigations to identify, assess, decision and report on activity that indicates an exposure to financial crimes. Ensures potential threats and investigations are evaluated, documented, managed and escalated by following standard operating procedures. Provides subject matter expertise and oversight of criminal risk by following a disciplined and intelligence-based approach to detection and research of activities and events in alignment with criminal risk frameworks and standards to ensure compliance as well as support trending, analysis and insights generation.

• Fosters a culture aligned to BMO purpose, values and strategy and role models BMO values and behaviors in all that they do.
• Ensures alignment between values and behavior that fosters diversity and inclusion.
• Regularly connects work to BMO's purpose, sets inspirational goals, defines clear expected outcomes, and ensures clear accountability for follow through.
• Builds interdependent teams that collaborate across functional and operating groups to create the highest value for all stakeholders.
• Attracts, retains, and enables the career development of top talent.
• Improves team performance, recognizes and rewards performance, coaches employees, supports their development, and manages poor performance.
• Acts as a trusted advisor to assigned business/group.
• Influences and negotiates to achieve business objectives.
• Recommends and implements solutions based on analysis of issues and implications for the business.
• Assists in the development of strategic plans.
• Identifies emerging issues and trends to inform decision-making.
• Helps determine business priorities and best sequence for execution of business/group strategy.
• Conducts independent analysis and assessment to resolve strategic issues.
• Supports the execution of strategic initiatives in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
• Builds effective relationships with internal/external stakeholders (e.g. law enforcement agencies and other Financial Institutions to collaborate in investigations).
• Ensures alignment between stakeholders.
• Breaks down strategic problems, and analyses data and information to provide insights and recommendations.
• Integrates information from multiple sources to enable more efficient processes, enhanced analysis and/or streamlined reporting.
• Builds change management plans of varying scope and type; leads or participates in a variety of change management activities including readiness assessments, planning, stakeholder management, execution, evaluation and sustainment of initiatives.
• Performs in-depth, holistic investigations and provides consultation and analysis to stakeholders.
• Develops and manages a business/group program.
• Reviews the program for effectiveness, considers industry trends and recommends enhancements; makes changes as required.
• Leads/participates in the design, implementation and management of core business/group processes.
• Monitors and analyzes various information provided through detection systems, tools, reports, or manually to evaluate, investigate and determine required actions.
• Supports the collection of evidence and information to be used for multiple purposes including incident reports/filings, loss prevention, litigation and criminal prosecution, management information and statistics, and process improvements.
• Documents actions and information found throughout the investigation to develop and maintain account/case files.
• Follows documented policies and procedures to execute day to day transactions, activities, processes and ensures all Service Level Agreements(SLAs) are met.
• Checks and reconciles information and documentation to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Develops and maintains an understanding of the financial crime management processes, frameworks and techniques.
• Gathers and formats data into regular and ad-hoc reports, and dashboards.
• Analyzes data and information to provide insights and recommendations.
• Executes routine tasks such as service requests, transactions, queries etc. within relevant service level agreements.
• Provides notification, information and instructions to internal/external stakeholders related to incidents as necessary.
• Focus is primarily on business/group within BMO; may have broader, enterprise-wide focus.
• Provides specialized consulting, analytical and technical support.
• Exercises judgment to identify, diagnose, and solve problems within given rules.
• Works independently and regularly handles non-routine situations.
• Broader work or accountabilities may be assigned as needed.

Qualifications:

• Typically, between 5 - 7 years of relevant experience and a post-secondary degree in related field of study or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of applicable regulatory & association (Mastercard/Visa) requirements such as Reg E, Reg Z, NACHA, GLBA, FCRA, BSA/AML, and internal bank policies and SLAs.
• Investigative or compliance related experience is required.
• Knowledge of banking products, services, processes, and organization is an asset.
• PC skills (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint) – In-depth.
• Verbal & written communication skills - In-depth.
• Collaboration & team skills - In-depth.
• Analytical and problem solving skills - In-depth.
• Influence skills - In-depth.
• Data driven decision making - In-depth.

Compensation and Benefits:

$65 300,00 - $93 200,00

The base salary represents BMO Financial Group’s hiring range for this position. Actual salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as location, skills, experience, and qualification for the role. Salaries for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on number of hours regularly worked.

Base salary is one component of BMO Financial Group’s total compensation package for employees, which may include performance-based incentives, commissions or discretionary bonuses, as well as other perks and rewards. BMO also offers health insurance, tuition reimbursement, accident and life insurance, and retirement savings plans. To view more details of our benefits, please visit: www.bmousbenefits.com .

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At BMO we are driven by a shared Purpose: Boldly Grow the Good in business and life. It calls on us to create lasting, positive change for our customers, our communities and our people. By working together, innovating and pushing boundaries, we transform lives and businesses, and power economic growth around the world.

As a member of the BMO team you are valued, respected and heard, and you have more ways to grow and make an impact. We strive to help you make an impact from day one – for yourself and our customers. We’ll support you with the tools and resources you need to reach new milestones, as you help our customers reach theirs. From in-depth training and coaching, to manager support and network-building opportunities, we’ll help you gain valuable experience, and broaden your skillset.

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BMO is committed to an inclusive, equitable and accessible workplace. By learning from each other’s differences, we gain strength through our people and our perspectives. BMO is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. To request accommodation, please contact your recruiter.

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