Financial Crime Systems Analyst

Reporting to the Lead Transaction Monitoring & Systems, The role supports the development, optimization, and continuous enhancement of Safaricom’s financial crime systems, including Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Transaction Monitoring, Sanctions Screening, Customer Risk Rating, Fraud Detection, and Case Management platforms. The role is responsible for ensuring these systems operate effectively, leverage high-quality data, and deliver timely, risk-based insights to support the detection, prevention, and reporting of financial crime in line with regulatory requirements and Safaricom policies.The role works closely with Technology, Data Science and product teams with the analyst supporting system configuration, data integrity monitoring, alert analysis, and performance optimization. The role contributes to the implementation and adoption of intelligent financial crime solutions, leveraging automation, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and behavioural monitoring techniques to strengthen detection capabilities, improve alert quality, reduce false positives, and enhance operational efficiency across financial crime processes.The Financial Crime Systems Engineer also plays a key role in supporting digital transformation and innovation initiatives by identifying opportunities to automate manual activities, streamline investigations, enhance management reporting, and improve decision-making through data-driven insights. The role supports regulatory reviews, audits, model validations, and system enhancement projects while ensuring Safaricom maintains a resilient, scalable, and future-ready financial crime control environment capable of responding to evolving financial crime threats, emerging technologies, and changing regulatory expectations.Financial Crime Systems Management• Support the administration, configuration, maintenance, and optimization of financial crime systems, including AML, Transaction Monitoring, Sanctions Screening, Customer Risk Rating, Fraud Detection, and Case Management platforms.• Ensure systems operate effectively, efficiently,...