System Analyst (Financial Crime/ AML)

Responsibilities: API & Systems Integration: Define, document, and map technical integration specifications (REST APIs, JSON payloads) between Watchlist Management tools and core banking, CRM, and onboarding platforms. Watchlist Data Engineering: Configure systems to ingest, normalize, and reconcile structured and unstructured global watchlist data (Sanctions, PEP, Adverse Media) along with internal lists. Event Architecture & Alerting: Design event-driven workflows to enable real-time or near real-time alert generation for downstream case management systems (e.g., Detica, Actimize). System Calibration & Tuning: Develop and optimize fuzzy matching rules, filtering logic, and screening parameters to reduce false positives while maintaining regulatory compliance. Data Quality & Governance: Establish data quality frameworks, validation rules, and lineage controls to ensure accuracy, completeness, and traceability of screening data. Regulatory Compliance Alignment: Ensure solutions adhere to AML/CFT regulations (e.g., MAS, FATF, OFAC) and support audits and regulatory reporting requirements. Technical Documentation: Prepare Functional Specification Documents (FSDs), architecture diagrams, API data dictionaries, user stories, and process flows. UAT & Testing Governance: Lead User Acceptance Testing (UAT), regression testing, and validation activities for system upgrades and enhancements. Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with Compliance, Risk, Operations, Technology teams, and external vendors to gather requirements and drive alignment. Issue Resolution & Risk Management: Identify, track, and resolve issues, risks, and integration challenges impacting AML screening and compliance processes. Process Optimization: Continuously improve screening workflows, reduce manual intervention, and enhance operational efficiency. Training & User Enablement: Create training materials and support end-users during rollouts, upgrades, and process changes. Data Privacy & Security Compliance: Ensure adherence to data protection and privacy regulations (e.g., PDPA, GDPR) in handling sensitive data. Solutioning & Architecture Alignment: Bridge regulatory requirements with technical design, ensuring scalable, high-performance, and low-latency AML screening solutions. Requirements: Minimum 4 years of working experience in application testing, development and delivery. Minimum 6 years of functional experience within Financial Crime, Anti-Money Laundering (AML), or Sanctions compliance technology. Good understanding and experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). A strong & assertive communicator in speaking & writing Analytical mindset and good problem-solving skills Key Domain: Strong capability to write complex SQL queries, understand relational database schemas, and map data attributes across legacy and modern platforms. Experience within Financial Crime, Anti-Money Laundering (AML), or Sanctions compliance technology. Understanding of fuzzy matching principles, string-matching algorithms, and name screening data architectures Good to have: Proficiency with REST APIs, JSON formats. Database (Ability to use and understand for the purpose of analysis and design an investigation) Experience in configuring, implementing, or administering any Watchlist tool modules Analyse Requirements and form solutions for the application. Works with external application/user teams on E2E executions.