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Capitex

Specializes in rapid FCC staffing solutions

Senior Consultant - Data Analytics & Transaction Monitoring Scenario Tuning

Risk, Regulatory & Legal AdvisoryConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeDubai - United Arab EmiratesNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • Minimum 3 years of experience in transaction monitoring, anti-money laundering analytics, scenario tuning, model validation, or financial crime compliance at UAE banks or similar institutions.
  • Strong understanding of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing, sanctions, proliferation financing, and relevant financial crime typologies; UAE experience is preferred.
  • Experience analysing transaction, customer, alert, and scenario performance data.
  • Experience supporting audit, regulatory, or model validation remediation.
  • Proficiency in SQL, advanced Microsoft Excel, and data visualisation tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
  • Familiarity with SAS transaction monitoring.
  • Strong analytical, documentation, stakeholder management, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

  • Assess existing transaction monitoring scenarios, thresholds, alert volumes, analyst workload, quality assurance findings, suspicious transaction report/suspicious activity report conversion rates, and regulatory observations.
  • Support remediation of findings raised by Internal Audit, Model Risk Management, regulators, and external reviewers.
  • Review and enhance the bank's typology coverage assessment process and identify potential scenario coverage gaps.
  • Perform ad hoc scenario parameter and threshold tuning to reduce false positives without compromising risk coverage.
  • Conduct pre- and post-tuning analysis, documenting methodology, results, and recommendations.
  • Support transaction-monitoring-related data profiling, reconciliation, validation, data quality assessment, and issue remediation.
  • Assist with the transaction monitoring system upgrade, including business requirements, data mapping, testing, user acceptance testing, regression testing, and post-implementation support.
  • Coordinate closely with Compliance, Transaction Monitoring Operations, Model Risk Management, Technology, Data Management, and system vendors.

Desired Qualifications

  • Knowledge of Python, R, SAS, or similar analytical tools is advantageous.
  • UAE experience in financial crime typologies is preferred.

About the Company

Capitex

Specializes in rapid FCC staffing solutions

Capitex Global provides staffing and recruitment services focused exclusively on financial crime compliance (FCC). Its offerings include Rapid Response Teams that deploy interim specialists within days to handle surges and remediation, Executive Search for discreet global permanent hires, and an Early Careers Programme to train and place emerging FCC professionals. Clients are banks, fintechs, and regulated firms, and Capitex supports them by providing pre-vetted talent across AML, KYC, sanctions, transaction monitoring, fraud, and ABAC, with deployments often in 24–48 hours. The goal is to help financial institutions scale their compliance functions quickly and effectively to meet regulatory requirements and manage financial crime risk.

Company size
11-50
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
Founded
2021

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