Compliance Product Analyst

Kforce - Tempe, AZ

Full-time - Mid Level

Tempe, AZ

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

The Compliance Product Analyst role at Kforce involves acting as a Business Product Owner/Product Analyst within the Financial Crimes Risk Management (FCRM) organization. This position focuses on initiatives related to Financial Crimes, including Fraud, Sanctions, KYC, and AML. The analyst will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design business processes, report on project statuses, and create detailed user stories and acceptance criteria. The role requires a deep understanding of financial crimes operations and the ability to develop digital solutions across organizational boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Act as Business Product owner and/or Business Analyst within the BSA, Sanctions or Payments initiative inside the FCRM organization.
• Collaborate with cross functional team members to align on business process design as it relates to solution definition and adherence to FCRM required controls and processes.
• Provide status reporting for business side of project-oriented work efforts as Financial Crimes.
• Utilize detailed domain knowledge to determine FCRM system impacts and create detailed user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Demonstrate prior experience in developing seamless end-to-end digital solutions across organizational boundaries.
• Identify and define current 'As-Is' business processes and 'To-Be' business processes, conduct gap analysis, analyze requirements and deliver various project artifacts.
• Conduct JAD sessions.
• Participate in Product Increment Planning, sprint planning, and t-shirt sizing activities for assigned work area.
• Design and implement effective change management strategies and plans that include the communication strategy, education and training approach, resistance to change, sustaining change after implementation, measuring expected benefits and ROI.
• Configure and draft Business Architecture diagrams & workflows.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional experience in Product owner/business analyst related to Financial Crimes, BSA and OFAC.
• Advanced knowledge of Bank Secrecy Act (BSA)/Anti-money laundering (AML) disciplines to include KYC operations, Sanctions Operations, Fraud Operations, AML Operations and Compliance.
• Hands on knowledge in CIP, CDD, EDD, Customer Risk Rating, SAR filing, CTR, 314a, 314b, Transactions screening, PEP/Adverse Media party screening, etc.
• Knowledge in Payments & channels Business Systems Analysis knowledge in Agile framework & Agile tools.
• Experience in drafting backlogs, PI & sprint planning, burn down & burn up metrics, KPIs.
• Hands on experience in Jira, Confluence, OFSAA KYC Engine, OFSAA ECM, Fircosoft, Bottomline, SAS AML alert engine.
• Hands on experience in drafting Map & Gap analysis, Workflows & Wireframes, User Stories/Business Requirements, UAT, SQL queries, Data Mapping, Deployment plan, Business Roll Back plan, Change Management, Training.
• Advanced Business Systems Analysis experience.
• Experience working in Core Banking Systems, Payment Systems, Middleware and Transaction Screening Systems.
• Deep understanding of Commercial Banking operations is a must.

Nice-to-haves

• Technical knowledge of FCRM related Systems & Tools inclusive of OFSAA, Fircosoft Accuity, Bottomline, SAS AML alert engine, LexisNexis, MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, MS Project, Outlook, SQL, Data Warehousing, OBIEE, Reporting, SharePoint, Pivot Charts, Pivot Tables.
• Flexibility to work in global time zones to support international business stakeholders and project team.
• Ability to multi-task within a pressed timeframe is required.
• Strong presentations and communication skills that includes verbal, written, active listening.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance.
• Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA).
• 401(k) plan.
• Life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees.
• Paid time off for salaried personnel.