Senior Business Analyst - Financial Crime

Role

Atrium EMEA are supporting a large managed service provider looking for a Senior Business Analyst who will lead analysis activities across Financial Crime change initiatives, including KYC, AML, Sanctions, Onboarding, and control uplift programmes.

The role provides analytical leadership, shapes solution design, ensures regulatory alignment, and influences decision making across senior stakeholders.

The Snr BA will drive end to end analysis from scope definition through to implementation, acting as a key partner to SMEs, Product Owners, Compliance, Technology and Operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead definition of analysis scope, approach, deliverables and governance for Financial Crime change initiatives.
• Drive high quality requirements elicitation, ensuring clarity, traceability, regulatory alignment and senior level challenge.
• Produce structured, testable requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria across complex, cross functional workstreams.
• Lead current state analysis, control reviews, data flow mapping and identification of systemic gaps and dependencies.
• Shape future state processes, controls, and operating models, ensuring compliance, scalability and operational efficiency.
• Influence senior stakeholders, facilitate workshops, drive alignment across business, tech and control functions.
• Support solution design, test strategy coverage, and readiness planning, ensuring end to end delivery integrity.
• Provide leadership in change adoption activities: training input, procedures/controls documentation and readiness assurance.

Mandatory Skills & Experience

• Extensive BA experience in Financial Crime, regulatory, or control heavy change environments.
• Strong leadership across requirements governance, process and control analysis, and cross functional delivery.
• Ability to interpret regulatory expectations (AML, KYC, Sanctions) and translate into actionable requirements.
• Excellent communication, structured documentation and senior stakeholder influencing skills.
• Proven ability to drive analysis across complex, multi team programmes.

Desirable Skills

• Experience with enterprise level operating model and control framework design.
• Knowledge of JIRA, Confluence, Visio, and workflow/automation platforms.
• Experience in regulatory remediation, control uplift, or enforcement led programmes.
• Experience mentoring or coaching BAs.