## Senior Counsel, Financial CrimeApplyremote type:

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Toronto, Ontario, CanadaHours:37.5Line of Business:LegalPay Details:$165,000
- $210,000 CADThe pay details posted reflect a temporary market premium specific to this role that is reassessed annually.
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Job Description
Department OverviewTD Legal is dedicated to providing industry-leading advice and counsel to all TD business segments and corporate functions. In this Senior Counsel, Legal
- Financial Crimerole, you will join a dynamic and collegial team of professionals at TD Legal, providing advice and supporting a wide range of legal and risk areas. This role primarily involves providing senior, expert level legal advisory services in relation to anti-money laundering (AML), anti-terrorist financing (TF), economic sanctions, anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws (ABAC), including regulatory expectations and best practices,



across all Canadian lines of business and functions within TDBG. Legal advice and guidance in other areas of financial crime, as well legal processes, may also be required.
Collaborating with talented colleagues and partners in a variety of legal specializations, you will have the chance to develop your skills every day.

From mentorship and training programs to leadership development, we will help you realize your full potential and achieve your career goals.Job AccountabilitiesThe Senior Counsel, Legal
- Financial Crime role is a member of TD Legal and reports into the VP and GC of Financial Crime and Enterprise Investigations in Canada. The role is expected to be proactive in anticipating legal, regulatory, economic and reputational risks, and to provide strategic and commercially practical legal advice on a wide range of initiatives, programs, processes, policies and events involving, or adjacent to, financial crime matters. Duties include:
* Working closely and building strong trusted relationships with control groups, such as Financial Crime Risk Management, Compliance, Risk, Audit, Fraud, Government Relations and external parties as required.
* Monitoring, tracking and remaining current on current and emerging AML, TF, economic sanctions, ABAC and criminal laws, regulations and bills; including translating legal terms into business requirements, guidance and advice.
* Providing expert level AML,



TD and economic sanctions advice to business and legal partners that is integrated with the strategies and objectives of the business and is consistent with the enterprise-wide risk policy, including by supporting the development and/or implementation of policies, procedures, and solutions.
* Proactively identifying key legal risks and mitigation strategies, while ensuring awareness among relevant stakeholders and other members of the TD Legal team.
* Providing regular oral and written reporting to senior management, including TD Legal.
* Overseeing and directing external counsel and other third-party vendors (including cost management).
* Other duties, as assigned, including people management.Qualifications/Skills/Experience* Law degree from an accredited law school and qualified to practice law in Canada.
* Possess 10+ years of post-call lawyer experience (with at least 5 years of in-house, private practice or regulatory experience in the areas of AML, TF and/or economic sanctions).
* In-depth knowledge of the *Proceeds of Crime Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorist Financial Act
* (and associated regulations) and robust experience assessing economic sanctions (including Global Affairs Canada directives and UN or foreign state equivalents).
* AML certifications are an asset.
* Experience in the banking and financial services sector, including engagement with relevant regulators, an asset.
* Experience in regulatory enforcement is beneficial but not required.
* Demonstrated senior-level excellence in judgment, leadership, and relationship management.
* Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, as well as an advanced ability to identify problems/ barriers, manage risk and

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