Financial Crime Business Specialist (Change / Compliance)
Posted Today by GIOS Technology
£56 Per hour
Undetermined
Hybrid
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Financial Crime Business Specialist (Change / Compliance) role involves leading the design and optimization of workflows within the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements while translating them into actionable functional requirements. The position requires collaboration with Product and Engineering teams to enhance the Financial Crime tech stack and manage the project lifecycle in Agile/Scrum environments. The specialist will also be responsible for defining data quality checks and creating reporting dashboards for internal and regulatory use.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the design and optimization of FIU workflows, ensuring robust SLAs and clear audit trails.
- Act as a bridge between regulatory requirements and operational execution, translating compliance mandates into functional requirements.
- Drive the evolution of the Financial Crime tech stack by partnering with Product/Engineering teams.
- Define critical data lineage and quality checks for investigations; design MI dashboards and KPIs.
- Manage the full project lifecycle within Agile/Scrum environments, overseeing requirements elicitation and UAT scenario planning.
- Facilitate workshops and sprint ceremonies, aligning stakeholders to resolve dependencies and improve investigation efficiency.
Key Skills:
- BRDs/FRDs
- AML
- Fincrime
- FATF
- Policy-to-Procedure
- SAR
- Agile (Scrum/Kanban)
Salary (Rate): £56.25/hr
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
We are hiring for Financial Crime Business Specialist (Change / Compliance) Location : Hybrid - London Lead the design and optimization of Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) workflows—from alert triage and complex investigations to SAR/STR filing—ensuring all processes have robust SLAs, clear audit trails, and 1:1 alignment between global policy and local procedures. Act as the primary bridge between regulatory requirements (FATF, JMLSG, EU AMLDs) and operational execution, translating high-level compliance mandates into actionable functional requirements (BRDs/FRDs) and effective control frameworks. Drive the evolution of the Financial Crime tech stack by partnering with Product/Engineering teams to configure Case Management and Transaction Monitoring systems (e.g., Actimize, Mantas, SAS) and integrate third-party screening and adverse media tools. Define critical data lineage and quality checks for investigations; design MI dashboards and KPIs (e.g., false positive rates, SAR conversion, alert aging) to provide transparent reporting for internal committees and regulatory bodies. Manage the full project lifecycle within Agile/Scrum environments, overseeing requirements elicitation, UAT scenario planning, defect remediation, and the creation of operational readiness artifacts like SOPs and training run-books. Facilitate high-stakes workshops and sprint ceremonies, aligning diverse stakeholders across Legal, Risk, Technology, and FIU Leadership to resolve dependencies and drive continuous improvement in model tuning and investigation efficiency.
Key Skills : BRDs/FRDs / AML / Fincrime / FATF / Policy-to-Procedure / SAR / Agile (Scrum/Kanban)