Senior AML Investigator
Fecha: 28 jul 2026
Ubicación: Santo Domingo Este, 01, DO
Empresa: Scotiabank
ID de la solicitud: 268023
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Purpose
Contributes to the overall success of the Global AML Operations Department across designated countries and workstreams as the business evolves. Responsible for ensuring specific individual goals, plans, and initiatives are executed and delivered in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives. Ensures all activities are conducted in compliance with current governing regulations, internal policies, and procedures, and completed within established timeframes.
Accountabilities
- Conduct AML investigations for alerts, cases, or referrals generated through multiple detection mechanisms. Investigate by applying expert knowledge to assess customer activity, unusual transaction reports, external referrals, and other aspects that might apply.
- Identify Reasonable Grounds to Suspect (RGS) of money laundering, terrorist financing, or sanctions evasion, and document investigation findings clearly and concisely, in accordance with internal procedures and required timelines.
- Recommend appropriate outcomes in accordance with established processes.
- Request additional information from the business line within established timeframes and escalate as required.
- Ensure proper quality, recordkeeping, and audit trails for AML investigation activities.
- Support Management in reviewing AML investigation quality and provide targeted recommendations to AML leadership, as needed.
- Contributes to the development of AML typologies by analyzing identified trends and sharing emerging risk factors to enhance client service and risk mitigation.
- Provides guidance and input to the teams regarding specific AML Investigations, as needed.
- Actively identify opportunities for process and system improvements and participate, as appropriate, in implementation efforts.
- Responds promptly to requests and concerns from Partners, Security & Investigations, and other risk functions across the Scotiabank Group.
- Monitor service levels and escalate to the Manager, as needed.
- Promotes a customer-centric culture to deepen customer relationships and leverage the Bank's broader relationships, systems, and knowledge.
- Understands how the Bank's risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
- Actively pursues effective and efficient operations of their respective areas in accordance with Scotiabank’s Values, its Code of Conduct and the Global Sales Principles, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational compliance, AML, ATF & Sanctions and conduct risk.
- Champions a high-performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment.
- Can operate across jurisdictions as required by operational demands, ensuring consistent application of standards and procedures.
- Undertake ad hoc requirements from management, ensuring a timely response, which might include special AML workstreams, investigations, regulatory requests, among others.
Education / Experience / Other Information (include only those that are specific to the role)
- Bachelor’s degree (University degree) with a minimum of 1-2 years of experience in AML, Compliance, and/or Audit within a major financial institution; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Solid knowledge of international AML/ATF regulations and regulatory reporting framework.
- Effective communication skills.
- Bilingual proficiency in English and Spanish (required).
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills to make rational and logical deductions with limited information.
- Able to collect, analyze, organize, document and present volumes of information in an organized and summarized manner.
- Intermediate level with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI) and Internet search engines.
- Great capacity for problem solving, organization, and time management.
- A general understanding of Scotiabank's internal products, procedures and systems is an asset.
- Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (ACAMS) or Certified Financial Crime Specialist (CFCS) designation is an asset.
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Ubicación(s): República Dominicana : Distrito Nacional : Santo Domingo || República Dominicana : Santo Domingo : Santo Domingo Este || República Dominicana : Santo Domingo : Santo Domingo Norte || República Dominicana : Santo Domingo : Santo Domingo Oeste
Dirección de trabajo: Zona Franca Las Americas
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Área de trabajo:
Criminal Investigator, Investigation, Compliance, Technical Support, Administrative Assistant, Security, Legal, Administrative, Technology