Sanctions Screening Tuning Specialist - FircoSoft

• Our client is investing in the effectiveness of its sanctions screening capability - and needs a hands-on FircoSoft
• specialist to tune it. Working within the institution's financial crime compliance function in Riyadh - with candidates
• welcomed from anywhere in the world, and relocation and mobilisation fully supported - you will assess, calibrate and
• optimise the FircoSoft screening environment across customer and payment screening: filter rules, matching
• algorithms, thresholds, list management and workflow configuration.
• Arabic fluency is central to the role, not incidental to it. Screening effectiveness in the Saudi market depends on how
• the filter handles Arabic names - transliteration variants, romanisation schemes, name particles, honorifics and
• orthographic differences between Arabic-script and Latin-script records. You will bring both the platform expertise to
• tune the engine and the linguistic judgement to know when a match rule is generating noise and when it is masking
• risk.

Requirements

• Assess the current FircoSoft configuration - matching algorithms, rules, thresholds, good-guy/exception lists, and
• screening scope across customer and transaction/payment screening.

• Tune filter parameters and matching logic to reduce false positives without compromising sanctions risk coverage,

with documented pre- and post-tuning analysis.

• Optimise Arabic name-matching performance: transliteration handling, romanisation variants, name particles and

script-conversion behaviour across watchlists and customer data.

• Review list management - sanctions list ingestion, versioning and update mechanisms (UN, OFAC, EU, UK and

local/SAMA-directed lists) - and the governance around exceptions and whitelisting.

• Conduct above-the-line/below-the-line style effectiveness testing of screening outcomes; document methodology,

results and recommendations to withstand model validation and regulatory challenge.

• Support alert workflow and operating model improvements - alert quality, hibernation/suppression logic, escalation

paths and investigator feedback loops.

• Coordinate with Compliance, Screening Operations, Technology and the vendor; present findings and

recommendations to senior stakeholders in Arabic and English as required.

Essential

• Hands-on FircoSoft tuning experience - filter configuration, matching algorithms, rules and threshold calibration (not

oversight of a team that did it).

• Professional fluency in Arabic and English, with practical experience of Arabic name-screening challenges:

transliteration, romanisation variants and script matching.

• Strong sanctions compliance knowledge - UN, OFAC, EU and UK regimes and screening obligations, and the

governance expectations around filter effectiveness.

• Experience of screening effectiveness testing and documentation to a standard that withstands model validation,

audit and regulatory review.

• Banking or financial institution experience, with the stakeholder skills to work across Compliance, Operations,

Technology and the vendor.

Preferred

• Saudi or wider GCC experience, and familiarity with SAMA supervisory expectations for sanctions screening.
• Exposure to ISO 20022 / SWIFT MT-MX message screening and payment-flow screening architecture.
• Experience with complementary screening or monitoring platforms and data analysis tools (SQL or similar).
• ACAMS, ICA or equivalent certification.