Financial Crime Analyst - Actimise AML Expert

Matrix Usa Inc; Jacksonville (FL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Matrix Usa Inc. seeks a Financial Crime Business Analyst with deep expertise in banking FCC and NICE Actimise solutions to support AML monitoring, sanctions screening, lookback, model validation, and platform optimization initiatives.

The ideal candidate will work with business, compliance, data, technology, model validation and vendor teams to translate regulatory requirements into system enhancements, improve alert quality, validate data, and strengthen financial crime risk management

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in banking, financial services, financial crime compliance, AML, or regulatory technology.
• Strong understanding of AML transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, FCC processes, and financial crime risk management.
• Demonstrated business analysis or functional experience with NICE Actimise SAM and WLF, including OOTB scenarios, custom rules, and screening workflows.
• Experience integrating sanctions screening feeds from external vendors or watchlist providers, including requirements gathering, field mapping, feed validation, and screening outcome testing.

Responsibilities

• Engage with banking, AML, sanctions, and FCC stakeholders to gather business and functional requirements.
• Assess existing financial crime processes and Actimise solutions to identify gaps, inefficiencies, and opportunities for improvement.
• Develop BRDs, functional specifications, user stories, process flows, and business rules.
• Translate regulatory and business needs into actionable solution requirements and testable acceptance criteria.
• Provide functional expertise in Actimise SAM, WLF, and sanctions screening workflows.
• Assess and validate transaction monitoring scenarios, screening configurations, alert generation, investigation workflows, and case disposition processes.
• Evaluate out-of-the-box scenarios and custom rules, recommending enhancements to improve detection and efficiency.
• Support rule configuration, parameter adjustments, threshold optimization, and testing of platform enhancements.
• Coordinate integration testing and UAT for sanctions screening feeds from external vendors.
• Investigate feed-related issues and collaborate with vendors and technology teams to resolve discrepancies.
• Support historical lookback initiatives, data assessment, lookback criteria, and scenario execution.
• Analyze lookback results, reconcile transaction populations, investigate discrepancies, and document findings.
• Ensure lookback activities are documented with traceability and business validation.
• Support model validation, scenario tuning, threshold optimization, alert quality improvement, and false-positive analysis.
• Collaborate with model risk management and validation teams to address findings.

Skills

NICE Actimise SAM

NICE Actimise WLF

AML Transaction Monitoring

Sanctions Screening

Business Analysis

Stakeholder Management

Data Integration

Tools

NICE Actimise

SQL

Job description

Matrix Usa Inc. seeks a Financial Crime Business Analyst with deep expertise in banking FCC and NICE Actimise solutions to support AML monitoring, sanctions screening, lookback, model validation, and platform optimization initiatives.

The ideal candidate will work with business, compliance, data, technology, model validation and vendor teams to translate regulatory requirements into system enhancements, improve alert quality, validate data, and strengthen financial crime risk management