Sanction Screening Subject Matter Expert

At Silent Eight, we develop our own AI-based products to combat financial crimes that enable things like money laundering, the financing of terrorism, and systemic corruption. We're a leading RegTech firm working with large international financial institutions such as Standard Chartered Bank and HSBC. Join us and help make the world a safer place

**Job Overview**:
Do you love to educate financial institutions about financial crime compliance and AI technology? We are seeking a skilled and experienced Sanction Screening Subject Matter Expert (SME) to join our team. In this fully remote role, you will be client-facing and collaborate closely with our Data Scientists to deliver exceptional results. As an SME, you will play a vital role in understanding our customer's use cases and ensuring that our solutions meet their specific needs. Your expertise will be critical in guiding our data scientists and providing the necessary insights to achieve successful outcomes.

**Responsibilities**:

- Create and confidently deliver technical presentations internally and externally
- Work alongside our experienced enterprise sales team, to attend meetings with potential key clients to determine technical and business requirements and ensure that all necessary information is collated prior to producing a solution
- Act as an SME from a product, technical, and regulatory perspective across the Silent Eight product offering
- Provide thought leadership on industry trends, challenges, and opportunities for fraud solutions.
- Contribute to go to market activities - Marketing Collateral, create industry blogs/white papers/articles, analyst briefings & webinars
- Support implementation teams and lead initiatives at key strategic projects
- Understanding our potential customer's use cases and ensuring that our solutions (name screening, transaction screening, and transaction monitoring) meet their specific needs
- Partner with professional service leadership to execute proofs-of-concept for the Silent Eight customer screening solution including data coverage and hit-rate data tests, optimizing results, and writing reports
- Understand business drivers and risks involved to the customer and Silent Eight
- Learn our name screening, transaction screening, and transaction monitoring solutions so that you can assess which is most appropriate
- Project manage cross-functional technical teams to get results
- Gain a deep understanding of the available data, scope and structures; and effectively communicate the requirements for initial training to our customers
- Provide guidance to data scientists regarding customer expectations, acceptable results, and potential issues that customers may or may not tolerate
- Prepare and deliver detailed reports to customers upon successful Proof of Value (POV)/Proof of Concept (POC) completion
- Provide accurate and timely management information, including - activity reports, KPI's

**Required qualifications and experience**:

- Minimum of 10 years of relevant financial crime experience, preferably in a major national or multi-national financial services organization. Alternatively, experience regulator
- Comprehensive knowledge of input data structures, such as SWIFT and SEPA messages, as well as the generation and resolution of alerts
- Experience in working with various screening alerts, such as name screening, onboarding screening, and transaction screening (experience with AML transaction monitoring is a plus)
- Technical understanding and ability to describe and sell the principles of APIs & integration, data formats, data security, SaaS, and cloud hosting
- Experience in pre-sales/sales engineering/solutions consulting
- Experience in working for an international bank and handling alerts from different jurisdictions and market segments
- Ability to introduce innovations in alert resolution methods, showcasing a broader perspective and understanding of use cases and data points
- Comprehensive understanding of the end-to-end process, enabling effective collaboration with data scientists and confident representation of the company to customers.
- Proficient in preparing reports on alert resolution and summarizing performance statistics.
- Experience negotiating risk policies and acceptance criteria for clients, demonstrating a strong grasp of risk perception and customer expectations.
- Proficiency in data analysis and reporting tools, with at least advanced knowledge of Excel, Google Sheets, or similar tools.
- Nice to have basic experienced with SQL, Python, Jupyter Notebook, or similar tools (but not required)

**Our culture**

**You will be co-creating our business solutions**

We believe that your feedback allows us to create the best solutions as well as adjusted work culture. You will have a real impact on the growth of the company and the product we develop.

**Experienced team**

We aren't your run-of-the-mill tech start-up. At Silent Eight, everyone is a leader in their own field with