System Analyst

Responsibilities:

API & Systems Integration: Define, document, and map technical integration specifications (REST APIs, JSON payloads) between Watchlist Management tools and core banking, CRM, and onboarding platforms.

Watchlist Data Engineering: Configure systems to ingest, normalize, and reconcile structured and unstructured global watchlist data (Sanctions, PEP, Adverse Media) along with internal lists.

Event Architecture & Alerting: Design event-driven workflows to enable real-time or near real-time alert generation for downstream case management systems (e.g., Detica, Actimize).

System Calibration & Tuning: Develop and optimize fuzzy matching rules, filtering logic, and screening parameters to reduce false positives while maintaining regulatory compliance.

Data Quality & Governance: Establish data quality frameworks, validation rules, and lineage controls to ensure accuracy, completeness, and traceability of screening data.

Regulatory Compliance Alignment: Ensure solutions adhere to AML/CFT regulations (e.g., MAS, FATF, OFAC) and support audits and regulatory reporting requirements.

Technical Documentation: Prepare Functional Specification Documents (FSDs), architecture diagrams, API data dictionaries, user stories, and process flows.

UAT & Testing Governance: Lead User Acceptance Testing (UAT), regression testing, and validation activities for system upgrades and enhancements.

Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with Compliance, Risk, Operations, Technology teams, and external vendors to gather requirements and drive alignment.

Issue Resolution & Risk Management: Identify, track, and resolve issues, risks, and integration challenges impacting AML screening and compliance processes.

Process Optimization: Continuously improve screening workflows, reduce manual intervention, and enhance operational efficiency.

Training & User Enablement: Create training materials and support end-users during rollouts, upgrades, and process changes.

Data Privacy & Security Compliance: Ensure adherence to data protection and privacy regulations (e.g., PDPA, GDPR) in handling sensitive data.

Solutioning & Architecture Alignment: Bridge regulatory requirements with technical design, ensuring scalable, high-performance, and low-latency AML screening solutions.

Experience:

Minimum 4 years of working experience in application testing, development and delivery.

Minimum 6 years of functional experience within Financial Crime, Anti-Money Laundering (AML), or Sanctions compliance technology.

Good understanding and experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

A strong & assertive communicator in speaking & writing Analytical mindset and good problem-solving skills.

Strong capability to write complex SQL queries, understand relational database schemas, and map data attributes across legacy and modern platforms.

Understanding of fuzzy matching principles, string-matching algorithms, and name screening data architectures

Good to have: Proficiency with REST APIs, JSON formats.

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