Business Analyst SAM (Suspicious Activity Monitoring)
NYC, NY / Alpharetta, GA (Onsite from Day 1)
Contract
Role Overview:
Act as the bridge between compliance SMEs and technology teams to design, validate, and optimize Actimize SAM scenarios for effective AML monitoring.
Responsibilities:
Requirement gathering: Engage compliance and risk stakeholders to capture monitoring needs and typologies.
Scenario design: Translate suspicious activity typologies into Actimize SAM detection logic.
Alert tuning: Optimize thresholds to balance false positives and regulatory coverage.
Data validation: Profile and validate transaction data feeds to ensure completeness and accuracy.
Testing support: Assist in SIT/UAT cycles, validate scenario outputs against compliance expectations.
Documentation: Maintain BRDs, functional specs, scenario libraries, and audit logs.
Stakeholder communication: Present findings and tuning results in executiveready formats.
Skills & Qualifications:
AML domain expertise: Strong knowledge of FATF, BSA, EU AML directives, and typologies.
Actimize SAM knowledge: Handson experience with scenario configuration and tuning.
Data analysis: SQL proficiency, data profiling, and statistical analysis.
Documentation skills: Ability to produce clear BRDs, functional specs, and auditready artifacts.
Strong analytical mindset, stakeholder management, and communication
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