Financial Crimes UAT & Business Systems Consultant

Financial Crimes UAT & Business Systems Consultant

Location:

Phoenix, AZ | Hybrid

Employment Type:

Contract Industry: Banking & Financial Services – Risk & Compliance

Build Better Financial Crime Investigations Through Technology

Corner Stone Technology Talent Services (TTS) is seeking an experienced Financial Crimes UAT & Business Systems Consultant to support a major financial-services organization as it enhances the technology, data, and workflows used by Financial Crimes Compliance and investigative teams. This is an excellent opportunity for a senior financial-crimes professional who understands both how investigators work and how technology should support them.

The ideal candidate has hands-on experience within BSA/AML, Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), transaction monitoring, sanctions, KYC, fraud, or regulatory compliance environments and can translate investigator and compliance needs into clear business requirements, test scenarios, data validations, and technology improvements.

You will work closely with Financial Crimes stakeholders, technology teams, product owners, data teams, and investigators to validate enhancements to a case-management and investigative platform, ensuring new functionality, data, workflows, and automation perform as intended before being released to users.

Financial Crimes Business Analysis

• Partner directly with Financial Crimes Compliance, investigations, operations, and technology stakeholders to understand current investigative workflows and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Translate investigator, compliance, and regulatory needs into detailed business requirements, functional requirements, data requirements, acceptance criteria, and test scenarios.
• Analyze workflows across areas such as: BSA/AML Transaction monitoring Customer screening Sanctions KYC / Customer Due Diligence Enhanced Due Diligence Financial Intelligence Unit investigations Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) processes Regulatory and audit reviews
• Help ensure technology solutions align with real-world investigative and compliance processes.

UAT & Platform Testing

• Lead and support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for enhancements to financial-crimes case-management and investigative platforms.
• Develop comprehensive test scenarios, test cases, expected results, and acceptance criteria based on business requirements and investigator workflows.
• Execute and coordinate testing across business, data, and technology teams.
• Document test results, defects, exceptions, and business impacts.
• Track defects through remediation and retesting to final acceptance.
• Perform positive, negative, boundary, regression, and end-to-end testing where appropriate.
• Validate that system behavior, investigative workflows, alerts, cases, and underlying data meet documented requirements.
• Support testing of transaction-monitoring rules, thresholds, scenarios, and related data where applicable.

Data Validation & Investigator Enablement

• Analyze investigative and transactional data to determine whether platform functionality is producing accurate and usable results.
• Validate data mappings, source-to-target logic, calculations, field-level results, and downstream outputs.
• Partner with technical teams on solutions that improve investigator efficiency, including:
  Automated data retrieval Investigator data pre-fetch capabilities Workflow automation Case enrichment Reporting and dashboards Data-quality improvements
• Use querying, reporting, or analytical tools to research discrepancies and validate test results.
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual investigator effort while maintaining strong compliance controls.

Documentation & Project Coordination

• Maintain clear, audit-ready documentation covering:
  Business requirements Process flows Test plans Test scenarios and scripts Test evidence Defects and issue logs Decisions and approvals Project status and risks
• Coordinate across compliance, business, technology, data, QA, and project-management teams.
• Communicate issues, dependencies, testing progress, and business impacts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Support governance, internal audits, regulatory reviews, and examination-readiness activities as needed.

The strongest candidates will bring a combination of Financial Crimes domain expertise, business analysis, data analysis, and hands-on UAT experience.

Required Qualifications

• Extensive professional experience within banking, financial services, risk, compliance, or financial-crimes environments.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of one or more of the following: AML / BSA Transaction monitoring Financial-crimes investigations FIU operations KYC / CDD / EDD Sanctions screening Customer or transaction screening SAR investigation and filing processes
• Experience gathering and documenting business, functional, data, and testing requirements.
• Hands-on experience developing and executing UAT test cases and test scenarios.
• Experience documenting testing outcomes, defects, issues,…