Senior Business Analyst – AML & Financial Crime

Join one of the leading banks in the Baltics – a well-established universal bank with a strong presence across the region, serving a large base of private and corporate customers. The bank is investing heavily in modern technology and data capabilities, and protecting its customers and the wider financial system from financial crime is one of its top strategic priorities. This is a chance to shape how a major regional bank fights money laundering and fraud – with real impact and visibility.

We are looking for a Senior Business Analyst with 7+ years of experience in banking – long-term, hands-on and proven banking experience is an absolute must. You will join the AFC (Anti-Financial Crime) System Management Unit within the Financial Crime Risk Management Department.

You will support the AML/KYC/CARS/EDD/Tax value stream, with a primary focus on new CARS implementation activities, Transaction Monitoring (TM) requirements and implementation, Salesforce migration initiatives, and supporting Application Owners with new CARS and TM configuration tasks.

You will work closely with business and technology stakeholders to analyse requirements, define solutions, optimise financial crime processes and support the implementation of Anti-Financial Crime (AFC) capabilities. The role requires strong expertise in AML/AFC domains, business analysis, regulatory requirements and data-driven solution design.

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What you need:

Very proven, practical skills in the following are required:

• Strong expertise in banking AML/AFC domains and Financial Crime Risk Management, including AML/AFC processes, methodologies, regulatory requirements and industry guidelines

• Experience designing, implementing and maintaining Transaction Monitoring scenarios and business rules

• Customer risk scoring model expertise

• Business analysis, process mining, change management and workflow design experience, including investigation workflow design and optimisation

• Strong, proven, practical SQL skills (joins, querry optimisation, work with many millions of records etc.)

• Python proficiency for data extraction and analysis, plus statistical and data analysis skills

• Experience with customer and payment data ETL processes and knowledge of data lake and data warehouse concepts

• Understanding of event-driven architecture, familiarity with Kafka, Kafkabat and Kubernetes, and AWS knowledge

• Experience with Power BI, Tableau, Jira and Confluence

• Experience producing technical specifications, implementation, technical and typology documentation, as well as analytical reports and presentations

• Experience working in Agile environments (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe), with strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and fluent English (spoken and written)

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Nice to have:

These will put you ahead of other candidates:

• Experience with Bridger XG

• Experience with Siron Suite

• Experience with Compliance Lens

• Experience with AML Analytics

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What we offer:

• A senior role with real influence on the anti-financial crime capabilities of one of the region’s leading banks

• Start as soon as possible, full-time (approximately 160 hours per month)

• Hybrid, mainly remote work from the Baltics or the EU

• Possible monthly business trips to Riga, Tallinn or Vilnius, paid by the client

• Modern data and technology environment – Kafka, Kubernetes, AWS, data lake and BI tools

• An international working environment

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Hiring process:

• Teamence – initial screening

• Interview with the consultancy

• Interview with the bank