# Transaction Monitoring Analytics Consultant

> Capitex · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · Contract · Posted 2026-03-27

**Workplace:** on_site

## Description

### **Job Title: Transaction Monitoring Analytics Consultant (Contract)**

**Location:** Dubai, UAE  
**Engagement Type:** Contract (Consulting Assignment)  
**Industry:** Banking / Financial Services

### **Overview**

We are seeking an experienced **Transaction Monitoring Analytics Consultant** to support a leading bank in Dubai on a high-impact financial crime compliance initiative. This role focuses on enhancing, building, and optimizing transaction monitoring systems to improve detection capabilities, reduce false positives, and ensure regulatory alignment.

You’ll be stepping into the engine room of financial crime prevention—tuning the signals, refining the filters, and making sure nothing suspicious slips through the cracks.

### **Key Responsibilities**

-   Design, enhance, and optimize **transaction monitoring scenarios and rules** across AML systems
-   Perform **threshold tuning and calibration** to balance detection efficiency and false positive rates
-   Conduct **model validation and performance assessments** for transaction monitoring frameworks
-   Analyse large datasets to identify trends, typologies, and gaps in existing monitoring controls
-   Support the development and implementation of **new detection scenarios** based on emerging risks and regulatory expectations
-   Collaborate with compliance, technology, and data teams to ensure effective system integration and deployment
-   Document methodologies, assumptions, and validation results in line with regulatory standards
-   Provide insights and recommendations to improve **overall financial crime risk management frameworks**

### **Key Requirements**

-   Proven experience in **transaction monitoring, AML analytics, or financial crime consulting**
-   Strong hands-on expertise with **transaction monitoring systems** (e.g., Actimize, Fircosoft, SAS AML, or similar)
-   Experience in **model validation, scenario design, and threshold optimisation**
-   Proficiency in **data analysis tools** (SQL, Python, SAS, or similar)
-   Solid understanding of **AML regulations and typologies** (preferably within banking environments)
-   Ability to translate complex analytical findings into actionable business recommendations
-   Strong stakeholder management and communication skills

### **Preferred Qualifications**

-   Experience working with **Middle East banking clients or regulators**
-   Familiarity with **risk-based approaches and regulatory expectations in the UAE**
-   Background in consulting or project-based environments

### **What You’ll Deliver**

-   More effective and efficient transaction monitoring rules
-   Reduced false positives without compromising risk coverage
-   Clear, defensible model validation and documentation
-   Tangible improvements in financial crime detection capability

### **Contract Details**

-   Competitive day rate (dependent on experience)
-   Initial contract with potential extension
-   On-site / hybrid working model in Dubai

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