Transaction Monitoring Analytics Consultant
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About the Role
The role involves optimizing transaction monitoring rules, data analysis, and collaboration with compliance teams to enhance detection and reduce false positives.
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Contract Duration
6 Months (with potential extension)
Overview
We are seeking an experienced
Transaction Monitoring Analytics Consultant
to support a financial institution in Dubai on a 6-month contract.
The consultant will focus on
optimising and tuning transaction monitoring rules and thresholds
to improve detection of suspicious activity while reducing false positives.
The role requires strong expertise in
AML transaction monitoring systems, data analysis, and model/rule optimisation
, working closely with Financial Crime, Compliance, and Data teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Analyse existing
- transaction monitoring rules and scenarios
- to assess effectiveness and performance.
- Conduct
- threshold tuning and optimisation
- to improve alert quality and reduce false positives.
- Perform
- data-driven analysis
- of transaction patterns and alert outcomes.
- Evaluate
- rule efficiency and detection coverage
- against typologies and regulatory expectations.
- Develop and test
- new scenarios or rule enhancements
- where gaps are identified.
- Produce
- analytics, dashboards, and reports
- to support tuning decisions.
- Support
- model validation, documentation, and governance requirements
- .
- Collaborate with
- Compliance, Financial Crime, and Technology teams
- to implement rule changes.
- Assist with
- UAT testing and deployment
- of updated monitoring thresholds or rules.
- Ensure alignment with
- UAE regulatory expectations and AML best practices
- .
Required Experience
- 5+ years of AML / Financial Crime experience
- , with strong exposure to
- transaction monitoring systems
- .
- Proven experience with
- threshold tuning, scenario optimisation, or TM model calibration
- .
- Experience working with systems such as:
- Actimize
- SAS AML
- FICO TONBELLER
- Oracle FCCM
- or similar transaction monitoring platforms
- Strong
- data analytics capability
- (SQL, Python, R, SAS, or similar).
- Ability to interpret
- alert performance metrics and detection efficiency
- .
- Experience working with
- large transaction datasets
- .
Preferred Experience
- Experience with
- UAE / GCC regulatory frameworks
- .
- Background in
- banking, fintech, or consulting environments
- .
- Familiarity with
- AML typologies, risk-based monitoring approaches, and model governance
- .
Deliverables
- Transaction monitoring
- rule performance analysis
- Threshold optimisation recommendations
- Scenario tuning documentation
- Reduction in false positives while maintaining detection coverage
- Implementation support and
- post-deployment performance monitoring
• Data Analysis & Statistical Methods
- SQL / Python / SAS / Data tools
- Stakeholder Management
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