Senior GES Payments Specialist - 1 year contract at Royal Bank of Canada | CA | Rezi

Senior GES Payments Specialist - 1 year contract at Royal Bank of Canada

Senior GES Payments Specialist - 1 year contract

Royal Bank of Canada · CA

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About the Role

The Global Economic Sanctions (GES) Payments team is responsible for reviewing, investigating, and decisioning real-time wire payments and cross-border ACH transactions initiated or received by RBC clients globally. This role involves assessing sanctions risk, investigating potential matches against regulatory and internal lists, and determining the appropriate action for flagged payment transactions.

Responsibilities

  • Review and decision payments (incoming and outgoing) to support global business units and local compliance teams.
  • Assess and address sanctions risk in real-time payments.
  • Investigate transactions to ensure compliance with applicable sanctions regulations (US, UK, EU, Canada).
  • Make critical decisions on payment release, cancellation, or blocking, understanding the significant regulatory, legal, reputational, and financial risks involved.
  • Conduct thorough and accurate investigations due to the potential for severe negative impact to RBC.

Requirements

  • Undergraduate Bachelor’s Degree.
  • 2-5 years of Financial Industry or Payments processing experience, ideally including sanctions experience.
  • Prior experience as a payments analyst at a Canadian Financial Institution.
  • Ability to work in a high-paced, high-pressured environment.
  • Good written and oral communication skills.
  • Knowledge of SWIFT and ACH Transactions.
  • Knowledge of US, EU, UK and Canadian sanctions regulations.

Skills

  • Anti-Money Laundering (AML)
  • Communication
  • Data Gathering Analysis
  • Detail-Oriented
  • Group Problem Solving
  • Internal Controls
  • Operational Integrity
  • Payment Handling
  • Process Management

Location

  • WATERPARK PLACE, 20 BAY ST:TORONTO
  • Toronto
  • Canada

Work Type

  • Full time
  • Contract (Fixed Term)

Experience Level

  • 2-5 years

Education Level

  • Undergraduate Bachelor’s Degree

Benefits

  • Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
  • Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
  • Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
  • A world-class training program in financial services
  • Opportunities to do challenging work

About the Company

  • At RBC, we are guided by living shared values of Client First, Integrity, Collaboration, Respect and Excellence and winning together as One RBC.
  • We believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world.
  • Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities.
  • RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.
  • Expand your limits and create a new future together at RBC.
  • Find out how we use our passion and drive to enhance the well-being of our clients and communities at jobs.rbc.com.