AML Business Analyst

Matrix Global•Jacksonville, FL

About The Position

Matrix is seeking an experienced Financial Crime Business Analyst to support AML transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, historical lookback, model validation and tuning, and platform optimization initiatives. The role requires hands-on business and functional analysis experience with NICE Actimize SAM (Suspicious Activity Monitoring) and WLF (Watch List Filtering), including sanctions screening vendor-feed integration, rule optimization, onboarding new data sources, and end-to-end User Acceptance Testing (UAT). The analyst will work with business, compliance, data, technology, model validation, and external vendor teams to translate regulatory and business requirements into system enhancements; improve alert quality; validate data and screening outcomes; and strengthen financial crime risk management capabilities. Responsibilities include requirements management, Actimize workflow and rule assessment, vendor-feed integration, historical lookback analysis, scenario tuning and validation, data-quality review, testing and defect management, stakeholder coordination, and maintaining documentation for governance, audit, regulatory review, and operational readiness. Matrix describes itself as a global technology services and consulting company with over 17,000 employees worldwide. It offers a challenging and engaging work environment, competitive compensation and benefits, and career development opportunities, within a diverse and inclusive culture that encourages collaboration, continuous learning, and growth.

Requirements

8 or more years of experience in banking, financial services, financial crime compliance, AML, or regulatory technology.
Strong understanding of AML transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, financial crime compliance processes, and financial crime risk management.
Demonstrated business analysis or functional experience with NICE Actimize SAM and WLF, including out-of-the-box scenarios, custom rules, and screening workflows.
Experience integrating external sanctions screening vendor or watchlist-provider feeds, including requirements gathering, field mapping, feed validation, and screening-outcome testing.
Understanding of sanctions data structures, watchlist ingestion, matching logic, screening configuration, and alert generation.
Experience supporting historical transaction lookback exercises, scenario assessments, and results analysis.
Knowledge of model validation, scenario tuning, threshold optimization, alert-quality improvement, and false-positive analysis.
Experience gathering requirements and supporting new data source integrations into Actimize platforms.
Ability to plan, coordinate, and execute UAT for Actimize implementations, enhancements, or optimization initiatives.
Strong experience developing test strategies, test cases, acceptance criteria, and end-to-end validation scenarios.
Experience with SIT, UAT, regression testing, defect management, test evidence, and business sign-off.
Familiarity with data mapping, data profiling, data-quality analysis, and reconciliation.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, documentation, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
SAM and WLF experience and AML business-analysis capability.

Nice To Haves

Experience with AML or sanctions remediation programs, regulatory commitments, audit findings, or compliance transformation initiatives.
Working knowledge of SQL for data analysis, validation, and reconciliation.
Experience with Actimize implementations, platform enhancements, rule optimization, or production remediation.
Experience integrating multiple sanctions screening vendor feeds into Actimize or other financial crime compliance platforms.
Exposure to model risk management, independent validation, internal audit, or regulatory examination teams.
CAMS or other relevant AML and financial crime certifications.
Experience working in Agile delivery environments and coordinating distributed business and technology teams.

Responsibilities

Gather business and functional requirements from banking, AML, sanctions, and financial crime compliance stakeholders; assess existing processes and Actimize solutions for gaps and improvement opportunities.
Prepare business requirements documents, functional specifications, user stories, process flows, business rules, and testable acceptance criteria.
Provide functional expertise in NICE Actimize SAM, WLF, and sanctions screening workflows; assess scenarios, configurations, alerts, investigations, and case dispositions.
Evaluate out-of-the-box scenarios and custom rules, and support rule configuration, parameter adjustments, threshold optimization, testing, and enhancements.
Gather requirements for external sanctions vendor and watchlist feeds; assess feed formats, data structures, field mappings, and ingestion requirements.
Validate watchlist loading, mappings, completeness, screening coverage, matching logic, and alert generation; coordinate integration testing and UAT and investigate feed-related issues.
Support historical transaction lookback by defining scope and criteria, assessing data, executing scenarios, analyzing results, reconciling populations, investigating discrepancies, and documenting findings.
Support model and scenario validation, tuning, threshold optimization, and effectiveness assessments; analyze false-positive and false-negative trends, alert volumes, and scenario performance.
Recommend rule enhancements, parameter changes, and new scenarios, and collaborate with model risk management and independent validation teams on findings and remediation.
Gather requirements for onboarding new data sources; perform source-to-target mapping and data profiling; validate data quality and coordinate reconciliation and issue resolution.
Develop UAT strategies, test plans, scenarios, and cases; execute and coordinate testing for rules, tuning changes, lookbacks, vendor feeds, and new data sources.
Support SIT, UAT, regression testing, defect triage, retesting, release validation, test evidence and coverage tracking, business sign-off, and production readiness assessments.
Coordinate with compliance, business, technology, data, vendor, and validation stakeholders; communicate issues, testing progress, risks, dependencies, and remediation status.
Ensure proposed changes align with AML and sanctions requirements, internal policies, audit expectations, and organizational risk appetite; maintain documentation for governance, auditability, regulatory reviews, and operational readiness.