Financial Crime Business Analyst

Summary: The Financial Crime Business Analyst role focuses on supporting the design and delivery of intelligence-led processes for exiting high-risk customers in the banking sector. The position requires a strong background in financial crime compliance, data analysis, and collaboration with various teams to ensure adherence to regulatory obligations. The analyst will also be responsible for documenting requirements, analyzing client profiles, and producing management information reports. This role is critical in enhancing the organization's approach to financial crime risk management.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the design and delivery of the intelligence-led exits process across Corporate, Investment, and Private Banking units.
• Gather, document, and validate business and functional requirements for exiting high-risk customers based on internal intelligence or external regulatory/legal obligations.
• Analyze client profiles, transaction patterns, and financial crime intelligence to support decision-making and case escalation.
• Work closely with Financial Crime Investigations, Client Risk Assessment teams, and Legal to ensure due process is followed in client offboarding.
• Produce MI (Management Information) and reporting on case volumes, trends, SLAs, and investigation outcomes.
• Identify control gaps, process inefficiencies, or system enhancement opportunities and contribute to solutions design.
• Act as liaison between the business, compliance, and technology teams to ensure system changes or enhancements align with regulatory and operational expectations.
• Assist in policy/procedure updates and contribute to training material creation when required.

Key Skills:

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst within Financial Crime/Compliance/Anti-Money Laundering (AML) domains.
• Prior involvement in intelligence investigations, client risk exits, or customer offboarding programs within banking.
• Solid understanding of financial crime risk typologies, including AML, sanctions, and fraud.
• Familiarity with regulatory expectations (eg, FCA, PRA, OFSI, and global regulators like FinCEN).
• Strong data analysis and documentation skills - experience with Excel, JIRA, Confluence, Visio, etc.

Salary: £450 per day

City: City of London

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other

Detailed Description From Employer:

Financial Crime - Business Analyst

Location: London
Duration: 31/12/2025

Required Skills & Experience

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst within Financial Crime/Compliance/Anti-Money Laundering (AML) domains.
• Prior involvement in intelligence investigations, client risk exits, or customer offboarding programs within banking.
• Solid understanding of financial crime risk typologies, including AML, sanctions, and fraud.
• Familiarity with regulatory expectations (eg, FCA, PRA, OFSI, and global regulators like FinCEN).
• Strong data analysis and documentation skills - experience with Excel, JIRA, Confluence, Visio, etc.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the design and delivery of the intelligence-led exits process across Corporate, Investment, and Private Banking units.
• Gather, document, and validate business and functional requirements for exiting high-risk customers based on internal intelligence or external regulatory/legal obligations.
• Analyze client profiles, transaction patterns, and financial crime intelligence to support decision-making and case escalation.
• Work closely with Financial Crime Investigations, Client Risk Assessment teams, and Legal to ensure due process is followed in client offboarding.
• Produce MI (Management Information) and reporting on case volumes, trends, SLAs, and investigation outcomes.
• Identify control gaps, process inefficiencies, or system enhancement opportunities and contribute to solutions design.
• Act as liaison between the business, compliance, and technology teams to ensure system changes or enhancements align with regulatory and operational expectations.
• Assist in policy/procedure updates and contribute to training material creation when required.

Please apply to the advert for more information.

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