Financial Crimes Risk Signal Analyst
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Summary
A bank analyst role focused on evaluating and validating the risk signals, data inputs, and alerting used in fraud and BSA/AML/OFAC detection systems. Day to day the person cleanses and validates data, builds data-quality dashboards and KRIs/KPIs, performs root-cause analysis, and documents findings to support compliance, audit, and model/rule refinement.
The Financial Crimes Risk Signal Analyst specializes in evaluating alerting signals, data inputs, and risk indicators used across fraud and BSA/AML/OFAC detection systems. The role ensures signals are performing as intended, validates data quality, and supports reporting that informs model and rule refinement across financial crime programs.
PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Researches and validates risk signals used in transaction monitoring, fraud scoring, and rule-based alerting.
- Ingests, cleanses, transforms, and validates data from diverse sources to support analytics, dashboards, and enabled models.
- Supports end-to-end life cycle of alerting quality and effectiveness for Financial Crimes Programs.
- Supports data quality dashboards, scorecards, and alerting mechanisms.
- Conducts data quality assessments, contributes to root-cause analysis, and participates in remediation planning.
- Assists in development of KRIs and KPIs such as detection efficiency, signal precision, and false-positive ratios.
- Maintains structured documentation supporting compliance, audit, model, and financial crimes risk governance.
- Collaborates with Compliance, Enterprise Data, and Risk teams to refine signal thresholds, rule logic, and detection coverage.
- Translates complex analytical concepts into accessible insights for varied technical and business audiences.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
