Senior Qa Specialist

Requisition ID: 191790
Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

Job Purpose:

The QA Specialist scrutinizes and evaluates FINTRAC regulatory reports with focus on quality assurance and timeliness of reporting. Guided by Bank policy, receives direct supervision from the Manager. Within a well-defined task, the Senior QA Specialist is expected to function independently while ensuring that management is kept informed, and that problems and issues are escalated appropriately.

Key Accountabilities:

• Reviews, validate and correct (as needed) Large Cash Transaction (LCT), Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) and Ministerial Directive (MD) reports for submissions to FINTRAC.
• Monitors LCT, EFT reports for submissions to FINTRAC ensuring that reports are filed on time.
• Using excel, reviews and correct reports requiring quality assurance (QA) corrections.
• Identify, track, and communicate system improvement opportunities and analytic defects, and participate in the implementation process.
• Assist in the creation and maintenance of analytical tools and reporting dashboards (e.g., Power BI) in respect to FINTRAC regulatory reporting.
• Support and continuously improve the on-going initiatives in respect to AML regulatory reporting to FINTRAC, by providing ad hoc reporting, monitoring efficiency/effectiveness of reporting, soliciting feedback, and critically assessing procedures.
• Understand how the Bank's risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
• Actively pursues effective and efficient operations of his/her respective areas, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational risk, regulatory compliance risk, AML/ATF risk and conduct risks.
• Champions a high- performance environment by collaborating within team members, fostering an inclusive work environment; communicating vison/values/business strategy.
• Identifying unacceptable AML risks and escalating appropriately to the QA Manager or QA Senior Manager, Regulatory Reporting.

Experience / Education:

• Experience with SWIFT EFT (e.g., MT 103, MX messages), Non-SWIFT or LCTR.
• Good understanding of FINTRAC reporting and regulatory requirements.
• Knowledge of AML, Fraud and BNS client systems.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, and to ability exercise diplomacy and judgement, to effectively work with end users, members of project teams, and stakeholders across the global organization.
• High Proficiency with languages and tools: VBA and Advanced Microsoft Excel
• Proven ability to effectively analyse large amounts of transactional and case management data.
• Proven creative, initiative-taker, results-oriented, and highly motivated individual with good analytical skills in order to apply this knowledge to improve existing solutions and assist in the development of AML/ATF strategies.
• A proven ability to critically assess, prioritizes tasks, and delivers meaningful results in a challenging environment.
• Basic knowledge of operational processes including best practices, current and anticipated regulatory requirements, Back Office processes, and the end-to-end workflows among the Front and Back Offices.
• A recognized under-graduate degree in a business or technical discipline (Accounting, Finance, or a related field) with a minimum of 3 years of related experience.
• Must have strong knowledge of regulatory compliance, particularly with respect to FINTRAC regulatory reporting (including SWIFT, NON-SWIFT EFT and LCTR)
• ACAMS Certification a plus.

This is a temporary, full time role for 12 months.

Location(s): Canada : Ontario : Toronto
Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: "for every future", we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.
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