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Nesto Group(e)

Funds mortgages and builds lending software

AML Compliance Law Clerk

Financial Crime & AMLUpdated on Nov 14
Full-timeRemote

About the Job

Requirements

  • A paralegal or law clerk diploma, or equivalent legal training, is required.
  • At least five years of experience in corporate law or commercial real estate transactions, with extensive exposure to complex entity structures, is required.
  • A deep understanding of corporate structures and documentation, including multi-layered and multi-entity ownership arrangements, is required.
  • The role requires strong documentation discipline and the ability to maintain clear, thorough, and audit-defensible records.
  • The role requires high attention to detail and strong analytical skills.
  • The role requires sound judgment in identifying and escalating risk indicators.
  • The role requires the ability to handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion.

Responsibilities

  • Administer and maintain CMLS’s commercial mortgage anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing compliance program.
  • Conduct full know-your-client onboarding reviews for commercial borrowers, guarantors, indemnitors, and related parties.
  • Conduct enhanced due diligence based on risk assessments.
  • Collect and validate corporate documentation, including articles of incorporation, share registers, trust deeds, and partnership agreements.
  • Identify and verify beneficial ownership in complex, multi-layered, and multi-entity structures, documenting ownership charts with clear evidentiary records.
  • Conduct periodic know-your-client refresh reviews for existing clients according to their assigned risk tiers.
  • Update client risk ratings in response to material changes or scheduled risk-tier reviews.
  • Apply CMLS’s anti-money laundering risk-rating methodology during onboarding and throughout client relationships, including geographic and industry risk, politically exposed person exposure, and adverse media.
  • Document risk-rating rationales clearly so they are defensible in an audit.
  • Conduct sanctions, politically exposed person, and adverse-media screening at onboarding and on an ongoing basis, documenting outcomes and escalating appropriate cases to the Senior Director, Trust & Safety.
  • Identify and document transactions or behaviours that may give rise to reasonable grounds to suspect money laundering or terrorist financing.
  • Prepare and submit Suspicious Transaction Reports to FINTRAC, escalating cases to the Senior Director, Trust & Safety as appropriate.
  • Maintain complete, well-organized anti-money laundering files in accordance with PCMLTFA record-keeping requirements.
  • Support internal audits and FINTRAC examinations, responding to regulatory enquiries in collaboration with the Senior Director, Trust & Safety.
  • Assist in maintaining and updating anti-money laundering procedure documentation, checklists, and templates as directed.
  • Maintain current knowledge of FINTRAC guidance, PCMLTFA obligations, and anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing best practices applicable to the mortgage sector.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in know-your-client work or regulatory compliance, or familiarity with PCMLTFA and FINTRAC guidance, is an asset.
  • French-English bilingualism is a strong asset for the Toronto position.

About the Company

Nesto Group(e)

Funds mortgages and builds lending software

Nesto Group(e) is a Canadian mortgage finance and technology group serving homebuyers, commercial borrowers and financial institutions. Its nesto and CMLS businesses arrange, fund and administer loans, from home purchases and renewals to financing for property owners and developers. Nesto Cloud builds software that takes lenders through applications, loan assessment and ongoing loan servicing, using automation to reduce manual document processing. The group also runs Compare Mortgages, where Canadians compare products and rates from lenders and brokers before choosing financing. Its operating roots date to nesto's founding in 2018, and its businesses work across Canada.

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Headquarters
Montreal, Canada
Founded
2018

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