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About the Role

The Global Economic Sanctions (GES) Payments team reviews, investigates, and decision real-time wire payments and cross-border ACH transactions initiated or received by RBC clients globally. This role is critical in assessing sanctions risk and determining the appropriate action for flagged transactions to mitigate regulatory, legal, reputational, and financial risks for RBC.

Responsibilities

Review and decision incoming and outgoing payments 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, EU, UK, Canada).
Make critical decisions on payment release, cancellation, or blocking under significant time pressure.
Ensure thorough and accurate investigations to prevent severe negative impacts 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 fast-paced, high-pressure 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
Economic Sanctions
Financial Regulation
Group Problem Solving
Internal Controls
Operational Integrity
Process Management
SWIFT
ACH Transactions

Location

Toronto, Canada

Work Type

Full time
Contract (Fixed Term)

Experience Level

2-5 years

Education Level

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.

Equal Opportunity

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.