Compliance Officer

Role Overview

• Ensure Remote’s Canadian MSB remains compliant with new guidance and regulation stemming from FINTRAC and Bank of Canada’s RPAA legislation.
• Draft policies relating to customer due diligence, enhanced due diligence, screening measures, business-wide risk assessments, customer risk assessments, transaction monitoring, suspicious activity reporting, law enforcement engagement, fraud prevention, anti-bribery and corruption, authentication standards, AML/PF training and sanctions compliance meeting the expectations of Canadian regulators.
• Lead the AML/CTF audits for Remote’s Canadian regulated entity, manage relationships with other external advisors for Canada as required.
• Lead AML/CTF audits for Remote's other North America activities, manage relationships with North America external advisors as required.
• Responsible for ongoing maintenance of relevant policies, procedures and control environment to ensure our payments entities remain compliant with regulatory requirements and industry standards.
• Prepare and submit accurate and timely reports to regulatory authorities.
• Perform periodic and ad hoc 'second line of defence' controls effectiveness reviews as required; reporting to management on any findings and setting out remediation plans where necessary.
• Developing and enhancing compliance 'management information' or metrics to support on-going monitoring of the Canadian compliance function.
• Keep abreast of regulatory changes and update reporting processes accordingly.

Requirements

• Extensive experience within the Second line of Defence in the financial sector, with demonstrable experience in Financial Crime Compliance
• Expert knowledge of Canadian payments legislation, both with FINTRAC (specifically MSB rules) and Bank of Canada’s RPAA
• Previous experience in both Compliance and Compliance Operations roles within a global financial services company.
• Must be a CA resident
• Professional AML / MLRO certifications
• Writes and speaks fluent English.
• It's not required to have experience working in a USA AML compliance role, but it's considered a plus.
• It's not required to have experience working remotely, but considered a plus.

Benefits

• work from anywhere
• flexible paid time off
• flexible working hours (we are async)
• 16 weeks paid parental leave
• mental health support services
• stock options
• learning budget
• home office budget & IT equipment
• budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces