Senior Manager, Know Your Customer (KYC) Policy

Work Location:

New York, New York, United States of America

Hours:

40

Pay Details:

$115,440 - $186,160 USD

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Line of Business:

Financial Crime Risk Management

Job Description:

The Senior Manager, Know Your Customer (KYC) Policy is a strategic leader responsible for designing, maintaining, and advancing the bank's KYC policy and standards framework to ensure effective customer identification, risk assessment, and regulatory compliance. This role establishes clear, consistent requirements aligned to U.S. and enterprise AML expectations, while proactively monitoring the regulatory landscape and emerging financial crime risks to drive timely, forward-looking policy enhancements. Serving as a key advisor to FCRM Business Oversight and business stakeholders, the Senior Manager provides expert interpretation of KYC requirements, manages complex policy escalations and exceptions, and promotes consistent application across the organization. Additionally, the role leads and develops a high-performing team, delivering training and guidance that enhances enterprise understanding of KYC obligations and enables informed, risk-based decision-making.

The Senior Manager, Financial Crime Risk Business Oversight oversees the team and leads 2nd-line oversight activities and monitoring of the AML/ATF/Sanctions/ABAC compliance programs for covered TD businesses and legal entities, including managing critical program initiatives and handling complex/high-risk matters and escalations.

Depth & Scope:

• Provides people management leadership by hiring the best talent, setting goals, developing staff, managing employee performance, supporting compensation decisions, promoting teamwork, and handling disciplinary actions, as required

• Supports the development of a high-performance business oversight team as a member of the Leadership team

• Oversees and leads a large and/or highly complex and diverse AML/ATF/Sanctions/ABAC function for an area of significant risk, complexity or scope while growing talent, developing skills and capabilities to achieve career goals, support project/initiative success and achieve business results

• Provides oversight to programs for an assigned portfolio of complex and dynamic TD businesses and legal entities

• Maintains highly specialized expertise and in-depth knowledge to manage AML/ATF/Sanctions/ABAC programs for multiple, significant complex businesses, functional areas and/or global business lines

• Provides coaching, mentorship and guidance to practitioners, business, executives within area of expertise

• Manages and oversees the overall discipline and strategy for the AML/ATF/Sanctions/ABAC area while aligning to the enterprise best practices

• Position typically deals with senior/executive management

• Key contact for business management, regulators, and external/internal auditors, dealing with a broad range of issues including non-routine information

• Focuses on longer-range planning for functional area (e.g., 12 months or greater)

• May manage and prioritize multiple projects at a given time

• Acts as highest point of team escalation for resolution and provides direction to resolve issues or escalate

Education & Experience:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent work experience

• 10+ years experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Financial crimes compliance experience in the financial services industry.

• Legal background or experience writing policy.

• Experience in industry with respect to processes/controls to evaluate Financial Crimes risk.

• Experience in managing / leading high performing staff.

• Detail-oriented and organized with the ability to maintain attention to detail.

• Strong analytical & critical reasoning skills.

Customer Accountabilities:

• Leads and manages a high performing team on delivery of AML/ATF/Sanctions/ABAC compliance programs and culture

• Provides guidance, leadership, coaching and development to direct reports to ensure operational results and professional/personal development objectives are achieved

• Provides strategic direction on a broad and diverse range of complex AML/ATF/ Sanctions/ABAC program activities

• Proactively advises covered TD businesses of new and changed AML/ATF/Sanctions/ABAC regulatory and/or policy requirements and articulates the impact to their processes and controls

• Contributes to the development and implementation of AML/ATF/Sanctions/ABAC Compliance programs

• Works with senior business unit management/partners to develop proactive strategies, tactics, policies, and programs to effectively manage regulatory/compliance issues

• Provides insight, guidance, and recommendations and acts as a specialized resource to other departments based on subject matter expertise including, but not limited to, customer identification and due diligence, enhanced due diligence, policy, governance, training and/or compliance assurance and testing

• Manages and provides oversight on day-to-day operations of the department and participates in enterprise wide or Customer focused special projects on behalf of FCRM

• Delivers subject matter expertise and AML/ATF/Sanctions/ABAC guidance to business management, including developing and maintaining management reporting and analysis

• Coordinates/Manages the team's participation in / responses to regulatory examinations and internal/external audits, reviewing, packaging, and tracking and providing information for department executive

Shareholder Accountabilities:

• Develops and oversees the implementation of business line policies and procedures

• Works closely with leaders to develop and operationalize the business plan and deliver on AML/ATL/Sanctions/ABAC programs across the enterprise

• Plans and executes on strategic activities, reviews, and communicates results, and adjusts tactics accordingly

• Proactively identifies key business opportunities, research, and recommends enhancements/modifications, develops strategies to achieve recommendations and works closely with team to execute and implement

• Understands TDBG issues/parameters and guides others to protect the reputation and interest of TDBG by adhering to operating standards and processes related to AML/ATF/ Sanctions/ABAC

• Provides oversight on risk assessment processes as required

• Protects the interests of the organization - identifies and manages risks, and escalates non-standard, high-risk transactions/activities as necessary

• Keeps current on emerging issues, trends, and evolving regulatory requirements and assesses potential impacts

• Maintains a culture of risk management and control, supported by effective processes in alignment with risk appetite

• Liaises with regulatory and law enforcement agencies on AML/ATF/Sanctions/ABAC examinations and related inquiries

• Ensures employees are building and enhancing their knowledge and expertise; and employees assume responsibility in minimizing operational and regulatory risk by complying with Bank policy and Code of Conduct

Employee/Team Accountabilities:

• Responsible for management of the overall team providing both leadership and guidance

• Contributes to the development of business line and/or enterprise functional strategic priorities within their operational area or field of specialty

• Leads a high performing team; provides on-going feedback and performance reviews, coaches and develops employees and ensures performance management activities are undertaken and completed for all employees

• Leads the process of setting performance objectives for the team; tracks, monitors and effectively addresses and/or rewards performance in a timely manner

• Manages employees in compliance with all human resources policies, procedures, and guidelines of conduct

• Shares knowledge, information, skills, and subject matter expertise among the team and ensures the timely communication of issues and encourages good working relationships with other functions and teams

• Supports an environment where team freely escalates business challenges; facilitates change through positive reinforcement of milestones and successes

• Recruits for all hires to ensure a highly diverse, qualified workforce to achieve business objectives

• Establishes and fosters a cohesive team; promotes a fair and equitable environment that supports a diverse workforce and encourages the team to achieve common goals and objectives

• Acts as a brand ambassador for your business area/function and the bank, both internally and/or externally

Physical Requirements:

Never: 0%; Occasional: 1-33%; Frequent: 34-66%; Continuous: 67-100%

• Domestic Travel - Occasional

• International Travel - Never

• Performing sedentary work - Continuous

• Performing multiple tasks - Continuous

• Operating standard office equipment - Continuous

• Responding quickly to sounds - Occasional

• Sitting - Continuous

• Standing - Occasional

• Walking - Occasional

• Moving safely in confined spaces - Occasional

• Lifting/Carrying (under 25 lbs.) - Occasional

• Lifting/Carrying (over 25 lbs.) - Never

• Squatting - Occasional

• Bending - Occasional

• Kneeling - Never

• Crawling - Never

• Climbing - Never

• Reaching overhead - Never

• Reaching forward - Occasional

• Pushing - Never

• Pulling - Never

• Twisting - Never

• Concentrating for long periods of time - Continuous

• Applying common sense to deal with problems involving standardized situations - Continuous

• Reading, writing and comprehending instructions - Continuous

• Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing - Continuous

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required. The listed or specified responsibilities & duties are considered essential functions for ADA purposes.

Who We Are:

TD is one of the world's leading global financial institutions and is the fifth largest bank in North America by branches/stores. Every day, we strive to make every interaction, product, and experience remarkably human and refreshingly simple for over 27 million households and businesses in Canada, the United States and around the world. More than 95,000 TD colleagues bring their skills, talent, and creativity to foster deeper relationships, ensure disciplined execution, and build a simpler, faster banking experience. TD is deeply committed to being a leader in client experience, that is why we believe that all colleagues, no matter where they work, are client facing. Together, we are reimagining what banking can be for our clients, colleagues and communities.

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Additional Information:

We're delighted that you're considering building a career with TD. Through regular development conversations, training programs, and a competitive benefits plan, we're committed to providing the support our colleagues need to thrive both at work and at home.

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.

If you're passionate about helping clients and building deep, lasting relationships, TD offers diverse career paths where you can grow your expertise and make a meaningful impact.

We're committed to your success and foster a respectful workplace where diverse perspectives are valued, everyone has fair opportunities to grow, and you can unlock your full potential to achieve your career goals. Here at TD, we hire and develop the best.

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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