Senior GES Payments Specialist

What is the opportunity?

Reporting to the Platform AML Officer and Senior Director Global  Economic Sanctions, the Global Economic Sanctions (GES) Payments team is a unique function in Global AML Compliance group.  It is comprised of a group of employees who are responsible for the review, investigation and decisioning of real time wire payments and cross border Automated Clearing House transactions that are initiated/received by RBC clients globally. Payments that contain references to a sanctioned country, or potentially match against a regulatory control list or other internal list used in the screening process, are escalated to the GES team by the Payments Processing Operations Centre (PPOC) for investigation to review the sanctions concerns identified in the payment transaction, to assess the risk, and determine if the payment can be released, cancelled or blocked. More specifically, payments that are sent/received to/from RBC are screened against government sanctions lists (U.S. EU, UK and Canada) that identify individuals/entities/countries in respect of which/whom RBC is prohibited from conducting all certain types of transactions. It is the responsibility of the GES Payments Team to review the flagged payments, investigate and decision the payment.

*This is a 6 month contract role*

What will you do?

Global Economic Sanctions (GES) Payments Specialists are responsible to review and decision payments (incoming and outgoing) to support global business units and local compliance teams. Real time payments are reviewed to assess and address the sanctions risk, investigated to ensure the transaction is permissible under the regulations, and decisioned in accordance with the applicable sanctions regulations i.e. US, UK, EU and Canada. This position is under significant stress that is distinct from other areas within AML Compliance, and more broadly, Global Compliance, given funds are held, and not sent or paid, pending the outcome of the investigation.  If the GES Payments Specialists does not make the appropriate decision, RBC will be subject to a high degree of regulatory/legal, reputational, and financial risk. USD payments, regardless of dollar value, may be blocked by a US correspondent whose role is to clear the transaction subsequent to origination by RBC. It is therefore critical for an investigation to be thorough and accurate, as the results could have a severe negative impact to RBC.

What do you need to succeed?

Must have

• Undergraduate Bachelor’s Degree
• 2-5 years 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 high paced, high pressured environment
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Knowledge of SWIFT and ACH Transactions
• Knowledge of US, EU, UK and Canadian sanctions regulations

Nice to have

• ACAMS certification

What’s in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

• 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

Job Skills

Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Communication, Data Gathering Analysis, Detail-Oriented, Economic Sanctions, Financial Regulation, Group Problem Solving, Internal Controls, Operational Integrity, Process Management

Additional Job Details

WATERPARK PLACE, 20 BAY ST:TORONTOTorontoCanada37.5Full timeGROUP RISK MANAGEMENTContract (Fixed Term)Salaried2026-11-072026-11-29

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

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