Financial Crime Business Analyst

Key responsibilities

• Gather, document and validate business and functional requirements across Financial Crime processes.
• Work with Financial Crime SMEs to understand current processes, pain points and future-state requirements.
• Translate business and regulatory needs into clear requirements for technology vendors and delivery teams.
• Support requirements development for RFI/RFP and vendor selection activities.
• Document current and future-state processes, workflows and user journeys.
• Support analysis of data, integration and migration requirements across relevant systems.
• Work closely with stakeholders across Financial Crime, Operations, Technology, Architecture, Data and Procurement.
• Support vendor demonstrations, requirements traceability, solution evaluation and UAT where required.
• Identify dependencies, gaps, risks and areas requiring further business decisions.

Experience required

• Approximately 5+ years’ Business Analysis experience, ideally within Financial Services.
• Strong practical knowledge of Financial Crime, particularly KYC/CDD and client onboarding.
• Experience gathering and documenting detailed business and functional requirements.
• Experience with process mapping and translating business processes into technology requirements.
• Comfortable working with both business SMEs and technical stakeholders.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

Desirable

• Experience implementing or selecting KYC/CLM, case management or Financial Crime technology platforms.
• Experience supporting an RFI/RFP or vendor selection process.
• Understanding of screening, ongoing monitoring, transaction monitoring, payment monitoring, eID&V and associated Financial Crime data.
• Experience working on Financial Crime transformation or remediation programmes.