Technical Business Analyst

Job Title: T echnical Business Analyst (BA) AVP

Location: London

Duration: 6 months (Highly likely extension)

Working Pattern: Full Time

Our client, a leading organisation in the financial services sector, is seeking a Technical Business Analyst (BA) AVP to lead critical technical and data analysis activities for their global Transaction Monitoring (Quantexa) project. This initiative is being delivered in two phases, with the first phase focusing on Capital Markets and the second on Trade and Sanctions.

Key Responsibilities:

The selected candidate will be responsible for:

• Engaging with stakeholders across Compliance, Operations, Technology, Data Governance, and third-party vendors to document technical, data, and integration requirements.
• Defining, documenting, and maintaining data requirements, ensuring that business, regulatory, and solution needs are translated into clear technical specifications.
• Analysing source systems, data flows, and data lineage to identify required data elements, system dependencies, and integration requirements.
• Developing and maintaining source-to-target mapping documentation to support data provisioning and transformation into the Quantexa platform.
• Assessing data sufficiency, completeness, accuracy, and quality while identifying gaps and associated delivery risks.
• Collaborating with Data Governance teams to document critical data elements, data ownership, and metadata requirements.
• Facilitating data discovery, profiling, and validation activities to ensure data supports transaction monitoring objectives effectively.
• Supporting solution design, integration design, testing, and implementation activities, ensuring end-to-end requirements traceability.
• Identifying and managing technical risks, issues, and dependencies throughout the delivery process.
• Producing high-quality analysis artefacts, including requirements specifications, data dictionaries, and mapping documents.
• Supporting implementation and production readiness activities, ensuring all data and technical requirements are validated prior to deployment.

Knowledge, Skills, Experience & Qualifications:

The ideal candidate will possess:

• A degree in Business, Technology, Data Management, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
• A professional Business Analysis qualification (BCS, IIBA CBAP, PMI-PBA, or equivalent) is desirable.
• Extensive Business Analysis experience within financial services, particularly within financial crime compliance and regulatory transformation initiatives.
• Proven experience working on Financial Crime, Transaction Monitoring, Anti-Money Laundering (AML), and Compliance projects.
• Strong knowledge of data analysis, data modelling, data lineage, source-to-target mapping, and data integration concepts.
• Familiarity with data analysis and visualisation tools such as SQL, Excel, and Power BI.
• A strong understanding of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Agile, and Waterfall methodologies.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage effectively with senior stakeholders and technology teams.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills with exceptional attention to detail.
• Financial services regulatory knowledge, particularly related to Financial Crime Compliance, AML, and Transaction Monitoring.

This role requires a proactive individual with a strong ability to manage competing priorities within large-scale change initiatives. The successful candidate will demonstrate resilience under pressure and a capacity to operate effectively at both strategic and detailed levels.

If you are a seasoned Technical Business Analyst with a passion for financial crime compliance and data management, this opportunity may be the perfect fit.

Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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