Senior AML & FCC Solutions Lead

Tiger Analytics Inc.; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Tiger Analytics is seeking a senior business consultant specializing in Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) to act as a bridge between business compliance teams, risk stakeholders, and IT/engineering. The ideal candidate will have in-depth AML lifecycle knowledge including KYC/CDD/EDD, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, and AML investigations.

Responsibilities include leading discovery sessions, documenting BRDs/FSDs, mapping data models, and translating regulatory rules into monitoring

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in IT as a Business Analyst in Banking/Financial domain.
• 3-7+ years experience in AML/FCC/KYC for a domain-heavy role.
• Ability to think from client's business standpoint aligning all program executions to right business outcomes or aligned to business needs.
• Proactively able to think through what could be effective for to implement/augment during modernization initiative.
• Working familiarity with analytical tools such as Excel, SQL, BI/visualization tools and/or Python.
• Excellent communicator who can manage multiple stakeholders and be assertive to get their attention and drive compliance.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery sessions with compliance teams, investigators, and risk leads to define monitoring scopes and operational workflows.
• Create BRDs, FSDs, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Perform gap analysis: AS-IS vs TO-BE platform capabilities to highlight missing elements.
• Inspect data models from core banking systems; map source data fields to AML engine.
• Run data discovery tasks to identify missing or corrupt historical data fields.
• Translate regulatory rules into specific transaction monitoring parameters or typology thresholds.
• Help evaluate vendor product modules against local jurisdictional requirements.
• Facilitate alignment between technical producers and business consumers.
• Build test plans, create realistic financial crime test cases, and manage UAT.
• Confirm monitoring scenarios trigger alerts correctly under test conditions.
• Answer functional questions from developers, data engineers, and QA teams.
• Document constraints, track assumptions, and manage scope adjustments.
• Assist Architects & Developers in discussions with domain knowledge.

Skills

Communication

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

AML/KYC domain knowledge

Data-driven decision making

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/Banking/Finance

Tools

SQL

Python

BI/Visualization tools

Excel

Job description

Tiger Analytics is seeking a senior business consultant specializing in Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) to act as a bridge between business compliance teams, risk stakeholders, and IT/engineering. The ideal candidate will have in-depth AML lifecycle knowledge including KYC/CDD/EDD, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, and AML investigations.

Responsibilities include leading discovery sessions, documenting BRDs/FSDs, mapping data models, and translating regulatory rules into monitoring