Job Description

Position: AML SME (Actimize)

Location: NYC, NY

Setting: Onsite (5 days onsite)

Type: LTC (Long Term Contract)

Role Overview

The Domain SME Financial Crimes at NICE Actimize provides deep functional, regulatory, and industry expertise across AML, Fraud, Sanctions, and Financial Crime Compliance to support Actimize product implementations, enhancements, and client engagements.
This role acts as the functional authority ensuring Actimize solutions meet regulatory expectations while aligning with client business processes and risk frameworks.

The SME collaborates closely with product management, engineering, cloud teams, implementation consultants, and client stakeholders.

Typical Actimize Titles

• Financial Crime Domain SME
• AML SME Actimize
• Principal Consultant Financial Crime
• Senior Business Analyst Financial Crime
• Risk & Compliance SME

Key Responsibilities

Actimize Product & Domain Leadership

• Serve as the financial crime domain authority for Actimize platforms, including:
  • IFM (Integrated Fraud Management)
  • CDD / KYC
  • SAM (Suspicious Activity Monitoring)
  • ActOne
• Guide solution configuration, scenario design, and functional architecture
• Review and approve detection logic, rules, thresholds, and segmentation

Financial Crime Expertise

• Provide subject matter expertise across:
  • AML Transaction Monitoring
  • KYC / CDD / EDD
  • Sanctions & Watchlist Screening
  • Fraud typologies (payments, cards, digital, internal fraud)
• Translate global regulatory requirements into practical Actimize use cases
• Advise on typologies, red flags, and emerging financial crime risks

Solution Design & Implementation Support

• Partner with delivery and cloud teams to define functional requirements and solution designs
• Ensure Actimize configurations align with client:
  • Risk assessments
  • Compliance policies
  • Regulatory obligations
• Support data mapping, ingestion logic, and alert workflows
• Participate in UAT, defect review, and go live readiness

Model Tuning & Optimization

• Support scenario tuning, segmentation strategies, and threshold calibration
• Balance regulatory compliance with false positive reduction
• Review alert quality metrics and recommend optimization approaches
• Provide expert input to model validation and independent testing activities

Regulatory, Audit & Client Support

• Support client regulatory exams, audits, and remediation activities
• Assist in preparing compliance documentation and regulatory narratives
• Respond to regulator and auditor questions with Actimize specific explanations
• Provide impact assessments for regulatory changes affecting Actimize clients

Stakeholder Engagement & Knowledge Sharing

• Act as liaison between:
  • Actimize product teams
  • Client compliance & operations teams
  • Implementation and cloud engineering teams
• Lead client workshops, training sessions, and design discussions
• Contribute to Actimize product enhancements through domain insights
• Mentor junior consultants and analysts on financial crime concepts

Required Skills & Expertise

Financial Crime Domain

• Strong experience in:
  • AML / Transaction Monitoring
  • KYC / CDD / EDD
  • Sanctions Screening
  • Fraud Risk Management
• Deep understanding of banking products and transaction flows

Regulatory Knowledge

• Expertise in:
  • BSA/AML
  • FATF recommendations
  • OFAC / global sanctions regimes
  • US, UK, EU, or APAC regulatory standards

Technical & Analytical Skills

• Hands on experience with Actimize platforms (strongly preferred)
• Ability to work with alert data, scenarios, and rules logic
• Understanding of:
  • Case management workflows
  • Data models and transaction structures
• SQL or report analysis experience is a plus

Communication & Leadership

• Ability to translate regulatory language into system logic
• Strong documentation and presentation skills
• Comfortable engaging with senior compliance officers, regulators, and auditors
• Proactive, detail oriented, and risk focused mindset

Education & Certifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Risk, Compliance, or related field
• 7 15+ years of financial crime or compliance experience
• Preferred certifications:
  • CAMS
  • CFE
  • CRCM
  • ICA

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