Senior Financial Analyst

Velocity FinCrimeSolutions Suite is currently seeking a senior financial analyst in the financial crime domain to join our growing software implementation team. This is a technocratic role, requiring experience in the implementation of financial crime and compliance management solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist project lead in deploying Alacer's Financial Crime solutions in a customer environment. This includes coordinating with customer's technical and business functional teams to ensure smooth implementation of Alacer's financial crime solution.
• Act as product owner
• Support all phases of deploying the Financial Crime solution at customer sites including initial installation, patches, upgrades, application configuration, user acceptance testing and go-live.
• Discuss and document configuration of client environment.
• Adopt and contribute to Financial Crime solutions best practice methodologies for knowledge dissemination throughout the implementation process.
• Understand system security principles, specifically around user authorization and authentication methods and technologies.
• Strong customer interaction skills and the ability to assess a client's IT processes and strategies. In addition, must be able to lead clients through the process of integrating the VFCS's solutions into their operational environment.
• Mature, self-starting, self-motivating, and capable of making decisions independently
• Must be willing to travel to any location in the world depending on the project needs
• Create business requirements documents, functional specification documents, technical specification documents and other related documents
• Perform source to target data mapping from external core systems, payment systems to product's data model
• Work with R&D developers on the ETL for the core system integrations
• Participate in pre-sales and RFI responses
• Lead analytics requirements of a product's road-map offering
• Research data to come up with features and models that help determine customer risk with regards to fraud and money laundering within consumer banking.
• Define and support analytics technology selections and POCs.
• Educate and support the development teams in analytics content development

Qualifications:

• An experienced analyst who has a broad understanding of Financial Crime Management solutions, ie Oracle's FCCM, NICE-Actimize, SAS-AML etc., industry best practices, multiple business processes or technology designs within a product/technology family.
• More than 3+ years of experience in Financial Crime & Compliance domain
• Anti-Money Laundering, Fraud, and/or Identity resolution experience within retail banking
• 3+ years' experience as business analyst or compliance system analyst/consultant
• 3+ Years' experience in NICE-Actimize or FCCM Mantas or Any other AML solutions
• Good with database and SQL scripting
• Operates independently to provide quality work products to an engagement.
• Performs varied and complex duties and tasks that need independent judgment, in order to implement Alacer's products and technology to meet customer needs.
• Applies Alacer's methodology, company procedures, and leading practices. Operates independently to deliver quality product to an engagement.
• Demonstrates expertise to deliver functional and technical solutions on moderately complex customer engagements.
• Effectively consults management (with IT/Compliance) of customer organisations.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience preferred.
• Product or technical expertise relevant to practice focus.
• Ability to communicate effectively.
• Ability to build rapport with team members and clients.
• Ability to travel as needed.
• As part of Alacer's employment process candidates will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment screening process. This will involve identity and employment verification, professional references, education verification and professional qualifications and memberships (if applicable)