Technical Business Analyst (Financial Crime / Quantexa)
Location: London (100 Liverpool Street)
Contract: Fixed-Term/Contract Opportunity
Department: Transformation & Change Management
Sector: Banking & Financial Services
The Opportunity
We are recruiting for a Technical Business Analyst to join a major Financial Crime Transformation programme within a leading global banking environment.
This role will support the implementation of a new Transaction Monitoring solution, working across Compliance, Technology, Data Governance, Operations and third-party vendors. The successful candidate will play a key role in defining data, integration and technical requirements, ensuring data quality and supporting the successful delivery of a strategic financial crime initiative.
This opportunity would suit an experienced Technical Business Analyst with a strong background in Financial Crime, Transaction Monitoring, AML, data analysis and systems integration.
Key Responsibilities
- Engage with business and technology stakeholders to gather, analyse and document technical and data requirements.
- Analyse source systems, data flows, interfaces and system dependencies.
- Develop and maintain source-to-target mapping documentation.
- Perform data discovery, profiling and validation activities across multiple source systems.
- Assess data quality, completeness and integrity, identifying gaps and remediation actions.
- Support the definition of data governance requirements, critical data elements and data quality controls.
- Collaborate with technical teams to define integration requirements and support solution design activities.
- Maintain traceability between business requirements, technical specifications, solution design and testing outcomes.
- Support data readiness, implementation and production deployment activities.
- Participate in testing activities including SIT, UAT and data validation.
- Produce high-quality documentation including data dictionaries, mapping documents, requirements specifications and data gap assessments.
- Identify, manage and communicate project risks, issues and dependencies.
Skills & Experience
We are looking for professionals with experience in:
- Business Analysis within Banking or Financial Services.
- Financial Crime, AML, Transaction Monitoring, Sanctions, Fraud or Compliance transformations.
- Data analysis, data mapping and data governance.
- Source-to-target mapping and data lineage.
- Data quality assessment, profiling and validation.
- System integrations, interfaces and APIs.
- Working across both business and technology teams.
- SDLC, Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies.
- SIT, UAT and defect management.
Desirable Experience
Experience in any of the following would be advantageous:
- Transaction Monitoring implementations.
- Quantexa or comparable Financial Crime platforms.
- Capital Markets, Payments, Trade Finance or Transaction Processing environments.
- Data migration or data integration programmes.
- SQL, Power BI, Excel or similar analytical tools.
- Financial Crime Compliance, AML or Sanctions regulations.
Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate will be a proactive and analytical Technical Business Analyst who is comfortable operating within complex transformation programmes. You will be able to translate business needs into technical solutions, work effectively with a broad range of stakeholders and contribute to the successful delivery of large-scale regulatory change initiatives.