Financial Crime Risk Management Specialist in Toronto

Work Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hours: 37.5

Line of Business: Financial Crime Risk Management

Pay Details: $96,900 - $136,800 CAD

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Department Overview

The TD Bank Group Financial Crimes Risk Management (FCRM) Department is responsible for Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorist Financing (AML/ATF) regulatory compliance and prudential risk management across the TD footprint. We act as proactive and trusted advisors to TD Business Lines, while supporting a consistent, adaptable, and effective culture across the organization, ensuring money laundering and terrorist financing risks are appropriately identified and mitigated.

Job Description

Reporting to the Senior Manager, FCRM Privacy, Data, and Change Governance, the Financial Crime Risk Specialist provides subject matter expertise and hands‑on support to the FCRM's privacy designate activities. The FCRM Privacy Designate (PD), representing the FCRM 1B, acts as the privacy subject matter expert within the FCRM, maintains strong relationships with key stakeholders, fosters a privacy-aware culture and promotes best practices within the FCRM.

Responsibilities

• Managing and identifying privacy risk in day‑to‑day activities and influencing a culture of privacy compliance.
• Providing privacy‑related subject matter knowledge applicable to the Risk Owner's products, services, and initiatives.
• Identifying, understanding, and assessing privacy risk associated with business products, services, initiatives, data usage activities, models, tools and operations, etc.
• Understanding impacts of new/amended privacy legislation, regulation, and applicable privacy regulators' expectations.
• Supporting Risk Owners with the establishment, implementation and maintenance of privacy procedures and controls, as appropriate and in line with TD's risk appetite.
• Supporting Risk Owners as they mitigate and manage privacy risks applicable to their business activities and/or operations, leveraging where possible existing governance, processes and controls.
• Supporting the Risk Owner with Regulatory Compliance Management (RCM) Program activities relating to privacy Laws, Rules and Regulations (LRRs), e.g., inherent risk rating, control mapping, etc., and escalating to the Privacy Office any RCM impacts/triggers that may warrant updated RCM activities for the Risk Owner.
• Promoting the privacy mandate through the implementation/maintenance of and compliance with privacy related policies, standards, procedures and guidelines, while collaborating with business and jurisdictional stakeholders.
• Supporting end‑to‑end activities and reporting related to identified issues, events, and, where applicable, individuals' rights and information access requests and privacy related complaints and events, etc.
• Working collaboratively with other PDs when Risk Owner's activities overlap across multiple Risk Owners and jurisdictions.
• Participating in activities that support the oversight and inform the effectiveness of the PD program.
• Acting like an owner in understanding and proactively supporting privacy compliance within their Risk Owner's strategic priorities.

Preferred Experience and Skills

• 7+ years of experience in a governance/oversight role, compliance, audit, or related fields.
• Familiarity with privacy concepts and principles with a desire to learn more about privacy.
• Knowledge of the organization and FCRM function.
• Problem solving and analytical skills to assess privacy risks, identify issues and opportunities, and implement action.
• Keen ability to identify and escalate privacy risk as appropriate.
• Strong ability to work independently, think critically and collaborate with a variety of stakeholders.
• Ability to respond to conflicting points of view and effect creative, responsive and feasible solutions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to adapt to the privacy needs of their Risk Owner.
• Ability to manage time effectively and prioritize workload.
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy.

Education and Accreditation

• Post secondary education.
• Previous privacy experience preferred.
• An International Association of Privacy Professional (IAPP) certification or other comparable certification, is considered an asset.

Our Total Rewards Package

Total Rewards at TD includes a base salary, variable compensation, and several other key plans such as health and well‑being benefits, savings and retirement programs, paid time off, banking benefits and discounts, career development, and reward and recognition programs.

Colleague Development

If you’re interested in a specific career path or are looking to build certain skills, we want to help you succeed. You’ll have regular career, development, and performance conversations with your manager, as well as access to an online learning platform and a variety of mentoring programs to help you unlock future opportunities.

Training & Onboarding

We will provide training and onboarding sessions to ensure that you’ve got everything you need to succeed in your new role.

Interview Process

We’ll reach out to candidates of interest to schedule an interview. We do our best to communicate outcomes to all applicants by email or phone call.

Accommodation

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