Senior Manager / Associate Director (Financial Crime Compliance)

Tiger Analytics; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Tiger Analytics, a leader in advanced analytics, seeks a senior business consultant specializing in Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) to bridge compliance, risk, and IT teams. The role requires deep AML lifecycle knowledge and the ability to translate regulations into operational monitoring settings.

You will guide data modeling, data discovery, and vendor evaluations while leading test plans and UAT to ensure robust alerting and compliant outcomes.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of IT experience 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 programs to business outcomes.
• Proactively able to think through modernization implications.
• Working familiarity with Excel, SQL, BI/visualization tools and/or Python.
• Excellent communicator with multiple stakeholders and drive for compliance.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery sessions with compliance teams and risk leads to define monitoring scopes and workflows.
• Map source data fields to AML monitoring or screening engines; identify missing/corrupt data for alerts.
• Translate regulatory rules into transaction monitoring parameters and typology thresholds.
• Build test plans and manage UAT with business stakeholders to validate monitoring scenarios.
• Answer functional questions during build; document constraints and manage scope throughout the project.

Skills

Business Analysis

AML/KYC domain experience

Stakeholder communication

SQL

Excel

Python

BI/Visualization

Tools

Excel

SQL

BI tools

Python

Job description

Tiger Analytics is an advanced analytics consulting firm. We are the trusted analytics partner for several Fortune 100 companies, enabling them to generate business value from data. Our consultants bring deep expertise in Data Science, Machine Learning and AI. Our business value and leadership has been recognized by various market research firms, including Forrester and Gartner.

We are looking for a senior business consultant specializing in Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) to act as the vital bridge between business compliance teams, risk stakeholders, and IT/engineering teams. The ideal candidate should have strong understanding of AML lifecycle like; KYC / CDD / EDD data, Transaction Monitoring, Customer Risk Rating, Sanctions screening, AML investigations and case management & AML regulatory reporting.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery sessions with compliance teams, investigators, and risk leads to define monitoring scopes and operational workflows. Create Business Requirements Documents (BRDs), Functional Specification Documents (FSDs), user stories, and acceptance criteria. Perform gap analysis: Compare current ("AS-IS") compliance operations with the target ("TO-BE") platform capabilities to highlight missing elements.
• Inspect customer, account, and transaction data models from core banking systems; Define how source data fields map into the AML transaction monitoring or screening engine. Run data discovery tasks to identify missing or corrupt historical data fields needed for effective alert generation.
• Translate regulatory rules or internal risk mandates into specific transaction monitoring parameters or typology thresholds. Help evaluate vendor product modules against local jurisdictional compliance requirements, eg: define standardization rules, define cleansing rules. Facilitate Alignment between technical producers and business consumers.
• Build test plans, create realistic financial crime test cases, and manage User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with business stakeholders. Confirm that monitoring scenarios trigger alerts correctly under test conditions without producing unmanageable false-positive spikes.
• Answer functional questions from software developers, data engineers, and quality assurance teams during the build phase. Document constraints, track project assumptions, and manage scope adjustments throughout the project life cycle. Assist the Architects & Developers in discussions/conversations with domain knowledge.

• 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.

Significant career development opportunities exist as the company grows. The position offers a unique opportunity to be part of a small, fast-growing, challenging and entrepreneurial environment, with a high degree of individual responsibility.

Tiger Analytics provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.