Compliance Officer (Transaction Monitoring)

Compliance Fixed term contract Montreal, Quebec, Canada Reference 24000RCZ Start date 2025 / 01 / 06 Publication date 2024 / 11 / 19

Responsibilities

The Compliance Department at Société Générale is responsible for overseeing compliance with laws, regulations, guidelines, and policies that apply to the firm’s banking and financial activities, particularly in the areas of anti-money laundering, anti-terrorism financing, sanctions & embargoes, know-your-customer obligations, client protection, market integrity, anti-bribery & corruption, data protection and client tax transparency.

The Compliance Department enables the firm to operate according to essential compliance standards, ensures that Société Générale’s non-compliance and reputation risks are controlled, while supporting the business with existing activities and in the development of new products or services. Compliance acts as a second line of defense, developing and implementing policies, procedures, and controls, monitoring activities, advising the business, assessing risks, and providing training to ensure understanding and application of requirements, contributing to spread a culture of compliance within the Group.

ABOUT THE JOB :

Société Générale’s US Financial Crime Compliance (“FCC”) Department is responsible for ensuring compliance with anti-money laundering (“AML”), Bank Secrecy Act, USA PATRIOT Act, OFAC and sanctions regulations for the operations of SG in the ; The Department performs, among other responsibilities, AML transaction monitoring and SAR filing, OFAC screening and reporting, as well as advisory and control functions across SGUS bank and broker dealer businesses. The Department is also responsible for the management of the tools used for sanctions screening and AML transaction monitoring.

What will be your DAY-TO-DAY?

Join the Transaction Monitoring Group, a team of seasoned professionals in its efforts to enhance and maintain the automated transaction monitoring system and conduct data analysis on transactions that are facilitated through Société Générale.

• Work in team-oriented environment, developing, enhancing, and supporting the anti-money laundering systems in the Financial Crime Compliance department.
• Work on a complex project that requires expertise reviewing transactional data, data analysis and compiling summaries and overviews of such data populations.
• Work closely with Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) team members, business analysts, team members, project leads to understand the business requirements that drive the analysis and design of quality solutions for transaction monitoring detection system.

Profile required

Skills and Qualifications :

Must Have :

Nice to have :

LANGUAGE :

Ability to communicate in English, both orally and in writing, is a requirement as the person in this position will need to collaborate regularly with colleagues and partners in the United States.

Due to US Federal Securities law applying to this position, candidates who will apply for this position will be required to submit to an enhanced background screening, including the collection of their fingerprints by a third-party vendor selected by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ("FINRA")

Why join us

OUR BENEFITS :

WHAT WE DO DIFFERENTLY AT SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE

Competitive compensation & benefits offering, including but not limited to :

Fully sponsored virtual healthcare assistance and Employee Assistance Program to you and your immediate family

Various Employee Resource Groups (ERG) to engage with such as Pride and Allies, American Women Network, Black Leadership Network, One planet, etc.