Financial Crimes Data Consultant - (Hybrid - Toronto)
Capco – The Future. Now.
Capco is a distinctly and positively different place to work. Much more than consultants, we are active participants in the global financial services industry. Our passionate business and technology professionals enjoy a unique environment where they are actively encouraged to apply intellect, innovation, experience and teamwork. We ware dedicated to fully supporting our world class clients as they respond to challenges and opportunities in: Banking & Payments, Capital Markets, Insurance, Wealth & Asset Management and Energy. Experience Capco for yourself at capco.com.
Let’s Talk About You
You want to Own Your Career. You’re serious about rising as far and as fast as your work and achievements can take you. And you’re ready to write the next chapter of your career story: a challenging and rewarding role.
Let’s Get Down to Business
Capco is looking for talented, innovative and creative people to join our incredible and growing Team focused on our financial services clients. We are looking for experienced talent exceptional domain expertise who can work directly with our clients on mission-critical projects.
About the Role
A Financial Crime Data / KYC & AML Consultant is responsible for supporting anti-money laundering (AML) and know-your-customer (KYC) initiatives through data analysis, solution design, regulatory compliance, and technology enablement. This role blends domain expertise in financial crime with hands-on data skills to support investigations, reporting, and system enhancements.
Responsibilities
- Conduct data analysis to support AML transaction monitoring, KYC remediation, and financial crime investigations.
- Translate regulatory requirements (FATF, FINTRAC, OFAC, GDPR) into data and system requirements.
- Collaborate with compliance, risk, operations, and IT to define data models and rules for customer risk scoring, alerts, and suspicious activity reports (SARs).
- Create or refine rules for name screening, watchlist matching, and PEP detection.
- Support data migration, data cleansing, and integration projects for KYC/AML platforms.
- Design dashboards and reports for regulatory reporting and internal audits.
- Assist in selection and implementation of AML/KYC systems (e.g., Actimize, FICO TONBELLER, SAS AML, Oracle Mantas).
- Ensure data quality, lineage, and governance in financial crime data environments.
- Work with data privacy and security teams to ensure compliance with local and global regulations
Show Us What You’ve Got
It will be very useful if you have some or all of the following skills and experience:
- 5+ years of experience in AML/KYC/Financial Crime Compliance.
- Strong understanding of KYC lifecycle, customer onboarding, transaction monitoring, and sanctions screening.
- Proficiency in SQL, data analysis tools, and AML systems.
- Familiarity with data governance and privacy regulations.
- Excellent communication skills to liaise with business and tech stakeholders.
Nice to Have
- Experience with AML tools: Actimize, SAS, Oracle Mantas, NICE, etc.
- Certifications: CAMS (Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist), CKYCA, ICA AML.
- Knowledge of data platforms (Snowflake, Azure, GCP) and BI tools (Power BI, Tableau).
- Experience with regulatory audits or transformation programs in banking or fintech.
Professional experience is important. But it’s paramount you share our belief in disruptive innovation that puts clients ahead in a tough market. From day one, your key mission will be to perceive new and better ways of doing things to give your clients an advantage.
Now Take the Next Step
We have:
- Access to industry-focused talent globally
- Ability to leverage best-in-class innovative products and solutions for complex architecture and large-scale transformation
- Extended global geographic market reach
- Ability to capitalize on our client footprint and deep domain expertise within financial services and energy
Capco is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.
For more information about Capco, visit www.Capco.com.
