Manager

About the Role

Join our AML Investigations team at Scotiabank as a Manager responsible for conducting and leading investigations into potential money laundering, terrorist financing, sanctions evasion, and related risks. You will support management oversight to ensure timely, high-quality outcomes and compliance with regulations and internal policies. This role involves guiding investigative outputs, escalating risk, and contributing to risk mitigation. What You'll Do

• Conduct and lead AML investigations, including complex and high-risk cases; analyze client profiles, account activity, and transactional behavior to determine risk and identify potential Reasonable Grounds to Suspect (RGS); ensure investigative outputs are clear, accurate, and aligned to established standards.

• Identify and escalate higher-risk cases, including PEPs, sanctions exposure, and other elevated risk indicators; ensure timely identification and escalation of suspicious activity for regulatory reporting (e.g., STRs); recommend and validate risk mitigation actions and client management outcomes.

• Advisory and Escalation: Provide guidance and recommendations to management on investigative outcomes, risk materiality, and appropriate disposition; act as a key escalation point for complex, high-impact, or sensitive cases.

• Management Support and Team Oversight: Support managers in overseeing day-to-day investigative activities, including prioritization and workload management; monitor team performance against quality, productivity, and timeliness expectations; act as delegate or back-up to management.

• Quality Assurance and Approval Accountability: Review and approve investigative outputs and regulatory reporting, ensuring consistency, accuracy, and adherence to standards; identify systemic issues, trends, and control gaps, and drive corrective actions. What We're Looking For

• Experience conducting and leading AML investigations, including complex and high-risk cases.

• Ability to analyze client profiles, account activity, and transactional behavior to assess risk and identify potential Reasonable Grounds to Suspect (RGS).

• Knowledge of regulatory reporting requirements such as STRs, PEPs, sanctions exposure.

• Strong advisory and escalation capabilities; ability to communicate findings and recommendations to management and serve as an escalation point for sensitive cases.

• Experience supporting day-to-day investigative activities and supervising or coordinating teams.