Senior Business Analyst – Financial Crime / AML

Location: Baltic States (Hybrid/Remote)
Contract: B2B, Full-time (approx. 160 hours/month)
Start Date: ASAP
Contract Duration: Until December 31, 2027
Language: English

Job Summary

For our client in the banking sector, we are looking for an experienced Senior Business Analyst with a strong background in Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Anti-Financial Crime (AFC), and Transaction Monitoring.

You will join a team responsible for developing and improving financial crime prevention systems, supporting new system implementations, transaction monitoring solutions, customer risk assessment processes, and system migration initiatives.

This role combines business analysis, technical understanding, and financial crime expertise. You will work closely with business stakeholders, compliance teams, developers, and application owners to translate complex regulatory and business requirements into practical technical solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Gather, analyse, and document business and technical requirements for AML/AFC systems.
• Support the implementation and configuration of new Customer Risk Scoring (CARS) and Transaction Monitoring (TM) solutions.
• Design, improve, and maintain transaction monitoring scenarios, business rules, and customer risk scoring models.
• Analyse and optimise investigation workflows, AML/KYC processes, and financial crime prevention controls.
• Support Salesforce migration and system integration initiatives.
• Work with customer and payment data, including data extraction, transformation, and analysis.
• Prepare functional specifications, technical documentation, and implementation requirements.
• Collaborate with developers, application owners, compliance specialists, and business stakeholders throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Support system testing, validation, change management, and continuous process improvement.

Requirements

Financial Crime & Business Analysis

• Strong experience in AML/AFC, KYC, and financial crime prevention within banking or financial services.
• Hands-on experience designing, implementing, or maintaining Transaction Monitoring scenarios and business rules.
• Knowledge of customer risk scoring models, investigation workflows, and AML regulatory requirements.
• Proven experience as a Business Analyst in complex IT or financial services projects.
• Experience with business process analysis, workflow design, process mining, and change management.
• Ability to prepare clear business requirements, technical specifications, and implementation documentation.

Technical Skills

• Strong SQL skills and practical experience with data analysis.
• Experience using Python for data extraction and analysis.
• Understanding of ETL processes involving customer and payment data.
• Familiarity with data warehouses, data lakes, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, and Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe).
• Knowledge of reporting and visualisation tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
• Familiarity with cloud and integration technologies such as AWS, Kafka, Kubernetes, and Kafkabat.

Communication & Collaboration

• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work effectively with both business and technical stakeholders.
• Excellent communication, documentation, and presentation skills.
• Fluent English, both written and spoken.

Nice to Have

• Previous experience within Financial Crime Risk Management teams.
• Experience with Bridger XG, Siron Suite, Compliance Lens, or AML Analytics.
• Experience supporting large-scale banking system implementations or migrations.

What We Offer

• A long-term B2B contract until the end of 2027.
• Opportunity to work on financial crime prevention and banking technology initiatives.
• Collaboration with international business and technology teams.
• Hybrid working arrangement in the Baltic States.
• Full-time engagement with approximately 160 working hours per month.

Interested?

If you have experience in AML/AFC systems, Transaction Monitoring, and business analysis, we'd be happy to hear from you.

Apply now and let's discuss the opportunity!