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Director, Financial Crime Analytics and Model Validation

Company

Sun Life

Location

Waterloo, Ontario

Posted

July 06, 2026

Position Overview

Job Description

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About the role:

The Director, Financial Crime (FC) Analytics & Model Validation is an enterprise leader responsible for the strategy, governance, and independent validation of financial crime models (Name Screening, Transaction Monitoring, Client Risk Rating). The role ensures models are risk-based, effective, and audit-defensible, aligned with regulatory expectations (e.g., OSFI, FINTRAC, OFAC/OFSI) and the firm’s risk appetite.

You will partner across Compliance, Technology, Data Science, and Model Risk to enhance detection effectiveness, regulatory defensibility, and operational efficiency.

What will you do?

1. Model Validation & Governance

  • Own the enterprise model governance framework for FC detection models
  • Lead independent validation across NS, TM, and CRR models
  • Assess conceptual soundness, data integrity, and model assumptions
  • Execute validation techniques (back-testing, sensi...
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