Business Systems Analyst (AML & Data)

Job Details:

• 📍 Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid – 2–3 days/week onsite)
• 💼 Employment Type: Contract

We're looking for an experienced Business Systems Analyst (BSA) to support enterprise AML data initiatives for one of our leading banking clients. If you have a strong background in AML, data analysis, SQL, and stakeholder management, we'd love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

• ✔️ Gather, analyze, and document business, functional, and data requirements for AML initiatives.
• ✔️ Perform impact assessments for system, data, regulatory, and process changes.
• ✔️ Develop and maintain source-to-target mappings, data lineage, data flow diagrams, and business rules documentation.
• ✔️ Collaborate with AML Compliance, AML Operations, Technology, Data Engineering, and Regulatory Reporting teams.
• ✔️ Support enhancements across:
• Name Screening
• Customer Risk Rating (CRR)
• Transaction Monitoring (TM)
• FINTRAC Regulatory Reporting
• ✔️ Analyze customer, account, transaction, relationship, and KYC data requirements.
• ✔️ Define transformation rules, reconciliation controls, and data quality requirements.
• ✔️ Create test strategies, test scenarios, and test cases while supporting SIT/UAT.
• ✔️ Validate development deliverables and ensure end-to-end requirements traceability.
• ✔️Support production issue analysis, root cause investigations, and regulatory audit requests.
• ✔️Maintain project documentation, data dictionaries, lineage artifacts, and compliance records.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of Business Systems Analysis experience in Data Warehouse, Data Lake, or AML environments.
• Strong understanding of AML processes, including Name Screening, Customer Risk Rating, Transaction Monitoring, and Regulatory Reporting.
• Hands-on experience with data analysis, data mapping, and Source-to-Target Mapping (STM).
• Strong SQL skills for data validation and analysis.
• Knowledge of Data Governance, Data Quality, Data Lineage, and Regulatory Compliance.
• Experience working in Agile and Waterfall environments.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and documentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Banking or Financial Services domain experience.
• Knowledge of FINTRAC regulations and AML/KYC processes.
• Familiarity with DataStage, Python, Hadoop/Hive, and Enterprise Data Lake environments.
• Experience supporting regulatory audits and compliance initiatives.