Description

Key Responsibilities

• Lead business analysis activities for AML initiatives including sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, risk scoring/KYC, lookback reviews, and SAR/STR case management processes, ensuring alignment with regulatory expectations.
• Conduct detailed application, process, and data analysis to understand current-state workflows, identify pain points, and define future‐state enhancements.
• Prepare and manage comprehensive requirements documentation, including business requirements, functional specifications, data mapping, and process flows.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams—Business, Compliance, Technology, QA, and Operations—to ensure clear understanding and successful delivery of AML features.
• Create high-quality user stories and acceptance criteria within an Agile environment; actively participate in SAFe ceremonies including PI Planning, backlog refinement, and sprint reviews.
• Perform gap analysis to compare current-state capabilities with regulatory or business expectations, proposing actionable solutions.
• Utilize SQL for data extraction, analysis, validation, and investigation of AML alerts or cases.
• Support testing activities by clarifying requirements, reviewing test scenarios, validating outcomes, and ensuring alignment with AML compliance standards.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience as a Business Systems Analyst within the AML/Financial Crime domain.
• Strong working knowledge of AML processes including screening, real-time transaction monitoring, alert adjudication, lookback exercises, case management and suspicious activity reporting (SAR/STR).
• Experience in defining look back scope, sampling criteria and execution methodology.
• Experience in any one of the AML platforms such as Nice-actimize, Feedzai, SAS AML, Oracle, FICO Tonbeller, Symphony, LexisNexis
• Strong knowledge on FINCEN/FINTRAC regulations and its best practices.
• Proficiency in Agile delivery models, with preference for candidates experienced in SAFe Agile.
• Demonstrated experience with data analysis, including writing and executing SQL queries.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to work effectively in hybrid onsite/remote environments.
• Proven experience eliciting, documenting, and managing complex business and functional requirements.

Advantage if you have

• Hands on experience Look-back analysis and performed AML lookback reviews including historical transaction deep-dives, rules management, risk assessment and its configuration(highly preferred)
• Experience working with domain-focused consulting firms.
• CAMS certification (Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist) or equivalent AML compliance credentials.
• Understanding of Canadian regulatory frameworks (FINTRAC, OSFI guidelines) is an advantage

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree