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About the Role

As a Staff Consultant in EY's Financial Services Risk Management (FSRM) practice, you will support AML/KYC engagements for financial services clients. You will help assess compliance programs, evaluate controls, identify risks, and deliver practical solutions to meet regulatory requirements, strengthening their AML, KYC, sanctions, and financial crime compliance programs.

Responsibilities

• Support AML, KYC, sanctions, and financial crime compliance engagements.
• Assess AML/KYC frameworks, policies, procedures, and controls.
• Review customer onboarding, CDD, EDD, risk rating, and ongoing monitoring processes.
• Evaluate transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, and suspicious activity reporting controls.
• Conduct financial crime risk assessments, compliance reviews, and remediation activities.
• Analyze regulatory requirements and identify control gaps and improvement opportunities.
• Prepare client-ready presentations, reports, and project deliverables.
• Collaborate with risk, compliance, technology, and operations teams.
• Research emerging financial crime and regulatory trends.
• Applies AI in the flow of work with strong professional judgement – Integrates AI into day-to-day delivery while validating outputs, challenging assumptions, and maintaining accountability for quality.
• Leads responsible and risk-aware use of AI – Demonstrates sound judgement on data use, confidentiality, and ethical considerations and reinforces this standard practice; escalates risks appropriately and models good practices for teams.
• Drives structured and creative problem solving using AI – Uses AI to accelerate analysis, scenario generation, and insight development while maintaining clear linkage to business outcomes.
• Builds repeatable ways of working with AI – Develops and shares prompts, approaches, and tool usage that improve team productivity and consistency in existing data libraries/catalogues.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Economics, Law, Criminology, Risk Management, Compliance, or a related field.
• 1–2 years of experience in KYC, client onboarding, customer due diligence (CDD), enhanced due diligence (EDD), AML compliance, or financial crime operations.
• Exposure to banking, financial services, consulting, compliance, audit, risk management, or regulatory compliance environments.
• Familiarity with AML/KYC regulations and industry standards (e.g., FINTRAC, FATF) is an asset.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.

Skills

• Knowledge of AML, KYC, sanctions, and financial crime compliance concepts.
• Understanding of customer due diligence, transaction monitoring, and screening processes.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills.
• Excellent communication and report-writing abilities.
• Ability to work effectively in a client-facing team environment.
• Proactive, detail-oriented, and adaptable.
• Experience supporting KYC remediation, customer file reviews, onboarding, periodic reviews, or compliance testing.
• Exposure to transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, or case management platforms.
• Knowledge of beneficial ownership, PEPs, sanctions, and suspicious transaction reporting.

Location

• Toronto

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 1-2 years

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree

Salary/Compensations

• $54,000 to $81,500

Benefits

• $5,000 per year for mental health support benefits
• Wellbeing benefit of $1,200/year

About the Company

• EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.
• Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.
• EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions.
• Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.
• At EY, we use artificial intelligence (AI) tools as one element of our recruitment process to enhance efficiency and improve the candidate experience. While AI supports us in our process, human judgment and decision-making remain integral in our candidate experience. We are committed to the responsible use of AI, and our practices are continuously reviewed and refined to ensure they align with ethical principles and regulatory requirements.

Equal Opportunity

• Inclusiveness is at the heart of who we are and how we work. We’re committed to fostering an environment where differences are valued, policies and practices are equitable, and our people feel a sense of belonging.
• We embrace diversity and are committed to combating systemic racism, advancing gender equity and women in leadership, advocating for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, promoting our neuroinclusion and accessibility initiatives, and are dedicated to amplifying the voices of Indigenous peoples (First Nations, Inuit, and Métis) nationally as we strive towards reconciliation.
• Our diverse experiences, abilities, backgrounds, and perspectives make our people unique and help guide us.
• Because when people feel free to be their authentic selves at work, they bring their best and are empowered to build a better working world.