Lead, Financial Crime

| What we are looking for The Lead, Financial Crime, will be part of the Payments Products team that plays a critical role in advancing Payments Canada’s objective to shape the future of payments and ensure a trusted and secure payment system with central services that enable Participants to outmaneuver fraud perpetrators. The incumbent will own and manage key activities including developing financial crimes roadmaps, coordinating, analyzing and executing on Financial Crimes work packages for the payment rails. This role will collaborate closely with Payment Canada’s Transform, Delivery, Run pillars as well as other cross-functional groups, to provide detailed knowledge of market conditions needed to ensure that necessary features, functionality and supporting structures are in place. | A day in the life Your responsibilities as the Lead, Financial Crime will include but are not limited to: Lead as the Product and Business Owner for financial crimes & Fraud Services, ensuring that all roadmap capabilities are fully qualified, business-cased, elaborated, and implemented in alignment with the needs of both internal and external stakeholders. This role requires a proactive, independent, and collaborative individual who can thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment while driving key initiatives to success. Provide business owner input into the central fraud services vision, roadmap, requirements and release plan. Serve as the subject matter expert and trusted advisor to their Director on all aspects of fraud management, providing strategic insights and guidance on best-of-breed product management capabilities to drive continuous improvement and innovation. Synthesize member, regulator and internal stakeholder’s insights, and translate into problem statements, goal statements for solution identification. Develop control journey flows, analyze quantitative and qualitative data, develop business requirements. Build solid relationships with key stakeholders throughout Payments Canada, in particular, the Member Fraud stakeholders, Industry Relations, Communications, Delivery, Operations, and Risk groups to achieve successful outcomes throughout the product life cycle. Manage internal and external interactions proactively by providing prompt responses to email inquiries, requests for meetings, management of meetings in a timely manner. Identify and execute on opportunities to improve processes and/or reporting.  Provide regular status updates on ongoing files, action points, etc. Support ad-hoc tasks and projects as required. Strategy & Business Support the elaboration of roadmap and development into corporate planning business case for central fraud services. Take responsibility for the central fraud services product, making strategic decisions and confidently overseeing the development of the product throughout its life cycle (i.e., idea generation to market research, delivery oversight and post-launch analysis). Research and document pre-discovery / discovery phase initiative(s) for prioritization to fraud services roadmap. Own the end-to-end process of resolving complex business issues. Drive product strategy and big-picture thinking with limited direction from senior resources. Provide thought leadership and keep current on emerging trends and developments. Analysis & Research Own large to complex risks, issues, actions and implement decisions from meetings. Conduct data analysis and produce meaningful insights from research data. Develop financial crimes capabilities and user journey flows. Analyze industry fraud data, identify emerging fraud trends and concerns. Develop options for further research that drive industry change. Review product designs for financial crimes support, user experience and provide feedback to development/engineering teams.  Collaborate with engineering and operational teams to improve user flows. Lead development of user tips, tools and guides to facilitate positive user experience. Analyze and resolve issues and recommend improvements.  Develop deep product usage insights to guide the roadmap. Relationship Management Manage stakeholder (member, vendor, regulator, internal cross functional teams) interactions proactively. Establish and maintain ongoing relationships with internal departments, members, regulators, vendors. Engage independently with internal stakeholders (working level and executives), members, regulators, solution providers (i.e., vendors), and third party collaborators.  Manage vendor relationships and support compliance to Service Level Agreements Leadership Establish product management discipline by providing thought leadership and drafting appropriate processes, procedures, and workflows. Mentor and assist junior resources within the Product Management team. Provide thought leadership and keep current on emerging trends. Technical Competencies In-depth understanding of fraud mitigation tools, techniques and end-user interactions.  Excellent presentation development skills. Business acumen related to the Financial Services and payments industry. Ability to develop user journey flows and write comprehensive descriptions of requirements. Has technical acumen with experience in digital, payment and financial technologies. Experience in using various product management and delivery tools. Personal Competencies Critical reasoning and analytical thinking. Embraces complex and ambiguous situations and can think creatively and understand multiple aspects and impacts of policy.  High degree of self-direction and results orientation. Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with ability to effectively communicate complex concepts to peers, executive, external partners, ecosystem users and regulators. Able to build effective working relationships across internal and external stakeholders. Excellent leadership and ability to mentor team members.  Commitment to continuous learning and skills development.   | What you need to be successful  Undergraduate degree in Business, Economics, Math or related discipline. Minimum of seven (7) to ten (10) years of progressive work experience in financial crimes, fraud management, risk management, and/or business analysis preferably in the financial sector. Experience in Product Development and Product Management disciplines, including Stage Gate is a preferred asset. Knowledge of payments and financial crime / anti-money laundering is considered an asset. Knowledge of anti-money laundering detection and investigations is an asset. Ability to effectively bridge cross-functional teams, and vendor teams to ensure successful delivery of the defined output. Ability to solve complex problems requiring cross organization strategy alignment.  Ability to manage uncertainty and synthesis of available information on fraud experiences, discern appropriate options and support a recommended path. Experience with developing and promoting financial crimes strategies. Experience showing leadership and managing ambiguity. Experience in liaising with internal and external stakeholders at all levels. Accreditation or enrollment in a fraud risk management certification including CFE, CRM, CFCI or CAMS. Experience working in an Agile environment is an asset. Experience working in a matrix environment is a strong asset. Eligibility to obtain and maintain a Government of Canada Reliability Status Clearance and can successfully complete enhanced background checks that may be carried out by Payments Canada.   | Salary range Our target starting rate for this role is $119,850 with flexibility based on your experience and qualifications. The full salary range and benefits package are detailed below.   Please submit your application by July 24, 2026.