Techno-Functional Financial Crime Compliance Business Analyst

Summary: The Techno-Functional Financial Crime Compliance Business Analyst is responsible for mapping financial crime risk processes across various business units and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. The role involves stakeholder engagement, systems identification, and documentation of processes to enhance operational efficiency. Additionally, the analyst will identify opportunities for automation and standardization within processes. The position requires a strong focus on delivering validated, audit-ready documentation and facilitating knowledge transfer to internal teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Map Financial Crime risk processes across multiple business units, segments, and teams.
• Develop detailed process maps capturing activities, decision points, hand-offs, dependencies, and approvals.
• Document processes using a consistent, recognised methodology.
• Identify Management Information (MI), KPIs, and KRIs associated with each process, including governance forums and oversight responsibilities.
• Engage with process owners, risk owners, compliance, governance, and operations teams to validate process flows.
• Facilitate workshops and walkthroughs to accurately capture current-state processes.
• Ensure all documented processes are reviewed and formally signed off by process owners.
• Identify and document all systems, tools, and data sources supporting each process.
• Clearly distinguish between manual and system-driven activities and data hand-offs.
• Capture key risk points, controls, approvals, and escalation pathways within each process.
• Ensure alignment with applicable Financial Crime regulatory and compliance requirements.
• Identify manual, repetitive, or decision-heavy process steps suitable for AI or automation.
• Highlight activities driven by rules, thresholds, or judgement that could benefit from AI-enabled solutions.
• Identify process variations across business units.
• Recommend opportunities for process standardisation or consolidation where feasible.
• Produce validated, audit-ready deliverables including process maps, process narratives, and RACI matrices.
• Deliver outputs in a reusable format suitable for future transformation and AI initiatives.
• Provide regular progress updates and final reporting to key stakeholders, including Compliance and Process Owners.
• Conduct structured handovers and walkthroughs to enable internal teams to maintain and evolve the process documentation post-engagement.

Key Skills:

• Experience in financial crime compliance and risk management.
• Strong analytical and process mapping skills.
• Proficiency in stakeholder engagement and facilitation of workshops.
• Knowledge of regulatory requirements related to financial crime.
• Ability to identify opportunities for automation and standardization.
• Excellent documentation and reporting skills.
• Familiarity with AI and automation technologies.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: Dubai

Country: United Arab Emirates

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other