Business Analyst

We are looking for Business Analyst for our client in Hanover, NJ

Job Title: Business Analyst

Job Location: Hanover, NJ

Job Type: Contract

Job Overview:

Pay Range: $55hr - $60hr

Requirement/Must Have:

• 1+ years of experience in FIU/Investigations, AML/CTF, KYC/CDD/EDD, SAR/STR processes, typology analysis, escalation frameworks.
• Strong understanding of FATF Recommendations, FCA/JMLSG guidance, EU AMLDs (incl. 4th/5th/6th), and local AML regimes.
• Hands-on exposure to Transaction Monitoring (TM) and Case Management solutions (Actimize/Mantas/SAS/NetReveal/NICE/Pega) and Sanctions/Name Screening tools.
• Experience with BRD/FRD, user stories, process mapping (BPMN), acceptance criteria, UAT planning, traceability, change control.
• Ability to work with SQL/basic queries, data dictionaries, and define MI/reporting.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies, JIRA/Confluence, workshop facilitation, and stakeholder communication.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities:

• Elicit and document business, functional and non-functional requirements (BRD/FRD/Use Cases) for FIU operations, case management, and investigation workflows.
• Translate policy/regulatory changes (FATF, FCA/JMLSG, EU AMLDs) into actionable process specifications and control designs.
• Define data needs for investigations (customer, transaction, KYC/CDD/EDD, screening hits, TM alerts, adverse media).
• Map current-state FIU processes (intake, triage, investigation, escalation, SAR/STR submission) and design target-state workflows with clear SLAs, hand-offs and audit trails.
• Define control points, quality checks, QA sampling, and risk indicators/KPIs (e.g., alert aging, false positive rates, time-to-close, SAR conversion).
• Ensure policy-to-procedure alignment; maintain playbooks, SOPs, RACI, and governance artefacts.
• Partner with product/tech to shape features in case management and TM platforms (e.g., Actimize, Mantas, SAS, NetReveal, NICE, Pega).
• Specify integrations with screening tools (World-Check, Dow Jones, LexisNexis), Adverse Media, Open Banking/APIs, and data warehouses.
• Work with data teams on data lineage, data quality checks, and investigation MI dashboards; define reporting for regulators and internal committees.
• Plan and execute UAT, define test scenarios and acceptance criteria; support defect triage and remediation.
• Support operational readiness training materials, run-books, cutover checklists, and go-live support.
• Track outcomes via MI/Reporting; prepare packs for ORCs/FC committees; contribute to continuous improvement and model tuning feedback loops.
• Engage FIU leads, FC Ops, Compliance, Legal, Risk, Product, and Technology stakeholders.
• Facilitate workshops, backlog refinement, sprint ceremonies; manage dependencies and clear impediments.

Nice to Have:

• Experience in Payments/Cards, Correspondent Banking, Trade Finance, Digital Channels, Fraud & Scams, Crypto/Virtual Assets.
• Experience with adverse media, entity resolution, graph/link analysis tools.
• Familiarity with model governance for TM scenarios, threshold tuning, and optimization.