Senior Business Analyst - Compliance Transformation / Financial Crime

Senior Business Analyst – Compliance Transformation / Financial Crime

London | Hybrid

4 Days In Office

6 Month Rolling Contract

£600 per day (Inside IR35)

We’re partnering with a leading global investment bank to hire an experienced Senior Business Analyst to support major Compliance and Technology transformation initiatives across the organisation.

You’ll work across strategic programmes including the a global initiative to implement a unified compliance technology platform supporting consistent financial crime monitoring and a Kofax Fax upgrade programme focused on modernising application infrastructure and ensuring continued service availability.

This role will sit at the intersection of business and technology, working with Compliance stakeholders, technical teams, and subject matter experts to define requirements, shape solutions, and support delivery across the project lifecycle.

What You’ll Do

• Lead requirements gathering and produce key BA documentation including Business Requirements, Functional Specifications, Target Operating Models, and Technical Design Overview documents.
• Work with Compliance, Financial Crime, Business, and Technology stakeholders to define and validate solutions.
• Analyse current processes and support future-state design.
• Facilitate workshops and manage stakeholder relationships across the organisation.
• Develop testing approaches, test plans, and test cases.
• Support System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Analyse data, perform reconciliation activities, and support decision-making through insights.
• Manage project documentation, risks, issues, and delivery updates.
• Provide BA expertise across compliance systems, application upgrades, integrations, and governance processes.

What We’re Looking For

• Strong Business Analyst experience within a tier-one bank or financial services consultancy.
• Proven experience across Financial Crime, including, AML, KYC and Sanctions Screening
• Experience delivering end-to-end BA activities across complex transformation programmes.
• Strong requirements gathering, process analysis, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience producing functional documentation and supporting testing activities.
• Knowledge of data analysis and reconciliation.
• SQL experience (ability to query and analyse data).
• Understanding of banking products including, Bonds, Derivatives, Securities Financing, Loans and Deposits

Desirable Experience

• Experience delivering compliance technology or regulatory transformation programmes.
• Understanding of application upgrades, integrations, infrastructure dependencies, and technical governance.
• Exposure to trading platforms such as Bloomberg, Apex, or Murex.
• Previous Kofax experience is beneficial but not essential.