Data Scientist III (Financial Crimes Network Analytics)

Work Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hours: 37.5

Line of Business: Analytics, Insights, & Artificial Intelligence

Pay Details: $96,900 - $136,800 CAD

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Job Description:

R_1504116 Data Scientist III (Financial Crimes Network Analytics)

Summary Join the Advanced Analytics & Insights team within Financial Crimes Risk Management (FCRM) Canada to advance an innovative Financial Crimes Network Threat Detection & Prioritization capability.

This high-impact initiative focuses on uncovering hidden high-risk customer connections that conventional detection methods often miss, enabling effective risk identification, prioritization, and strategic insights.

The Data Scientist III will lead the enhancement & operationalization of this detection capability, primarily including developing analytical detection methods, generating risk insights, building visualization and decision-support tools for business users.

Key Accountabilities Financial Crime Analytics & Detection

• Translate financial crime typologies into detection strategies, generate hypothesis, design analytical approaches, develop querying logic, and validate findings through data analysis.

• Perform periodic Exploratory Data Analysis to identify emerging risk patterns, customer characteristics, and risk operation insights.

• Synthesize and present data-driven findings and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences.

Technical Solutions & Operationalization

• Design and develop interactive visualization and decision-support tools that allow business users to explore identified high-risk networks, understand risk drivers, and interpret analytical outputs.

• Automate recurring operational workflows to improve scalability and efficiency.

Modelling & Innovation

• Develop, calibrate, and test supervised-learning model(s) for network ranking

• Monitor model performance, evaluate existing modelling methodologies and practices, and develop new detection methodologies and analytical approaches

Ad-hoc Analysis

• Translate business problems into structured analytical problems and develop practical solutions

• Conduct ad-hoc analysis including such as root-cause analysis and impact analysis to meet business objectives

• Perform independent analytical review and effective challenge of existing methodologies and analytical solutions; assess assumptions, data, results, and business implications and provide constructive recommendations for enhancement

• Contribute to documentation, governance, controls, and ongoing monitoring required

Stakeholder Management

• Collaborate with internal team members, business users, and data engineers, technology teams, and other partners to deliver solutions.

Qualifications & Skills

• Core skills: SQL, Python for data analytics; statistics;

• ML/AI modelling experience, Large Language Modelling experience, AI agentic experience are bonus.

• Domain knowledge: Anti-financial crime (money laundering, terrorist financing), regulatory and governance knowledge and working experience are beneficial but not required; training and guidance will be provided.

• Education: Bachelor's degree in STEM (e.g., Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science, Economics).

• Work Experience: 1 year or above, intern / co-op experience in analytical fields is counted.

Why join us

• Anti-Money Laundering (AML) is TD Bank's current top one priority. Support the bank's one of the most essential objectives through a high-impact analytical initiative with visibility across senior leadership.

• Contribute to an industry-leading capability from an early stage with opportunities to influence future direction on how the bank manages financial crime risks.

• Work at the intersection of data science, anti-financial crime, and strategic decision making.

• Receive mentorship and career development support in both business and technical lens, including but not limited to advanced analytics, machine learning/AI, product design & management, stakeholder influence, and leadership development.

Who We Are: TD is one of the world's leading global financial institutions and is the fifth largest bank in North America by branches/stores. Every day, we strive to make every interaction, product, and experience remarkably human and refreshingly simple for over 27 million households and businesses in Canada, the United States and around the world. More than 95,000 TD colleagues bring their skills, talent, and creativity to foster deeper relationships, ensure disciplined execution, and build a simpler, faster banking experience. TD is deeply committed to being a leader in client experience, that is why we believe that all colleagues, no matter where they work, are client facing. Together, we are reimagining what banking can be for our clients, colleagues and communities.

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Additional Information: We’re delighted that you’re considering building a career with TD. Through regular development conversations, training programs, and a competitive benefits plan, we’re committed to providing the support our colleagues need to thrive both at work and at home.

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If you’re passionate about helping clients and building deep, lasting relationships, TD offers diverse career paths where you can grow your expertise and make a meaningful impact.

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Interview Process We’ll reach out to candidates of interest to schedule an interview. We do our best to communicate outcomes to all applicants by email or phone call.

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We look forward to hearing from you!

Language Requirement (Quebec only): Sans Objet