Finance Crime Compliance Business Analyst

Job Title: Finance Crime Compliance Business Analyst

Location: London, UK (Hybrid – 2 days per week in office)

Day Rate: £467 per day (Inside IR35)

Duration: 6 months

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Finance Crime Compliance Business Analyst to join a high-profile regulatory programme. This role will focus on reviewing, enhancing, and embedding financial crime compliance frameworks in line with regulatory expectations and industry best practice.

You will work closely with Compliance, Risk, and Operations teams to analyse existing processes, define business requirements, and support solution design and implementation. This is an excellent opportunity for a highly analytical professional with strong stakeholder engagement skills and proven experience within financial crime and regulatory change environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyse current financial crime compliance frameworks and identify gaps against regulatory requirements and industry best practice.
• Produce high-quality business requirements documentation, process maps, and functional specifications.
• Support solution design and implementation planning for framework enhancements.
• Facilitate workshops with stakeholders to validate requirements and ensure alignment across first and second lines of defence (1LoD and 2LoD).
• Collaborate with Compliance, Risk, and Operations teams to embed frameworks into business-as-usual (BAU) processes.
• Contribute to programme governance materials, including steering committee updates and management reporting.
• Support planning and execution of framework-related change initiatives.
• Maintain RAID logs, tracking business analysis risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies.
• Provide support across other financial crime programme workstreams as required.

Skills and Competencies

• Strong analytical capability, with the ability to interpret regulatory requirements and complex data.
• Proven expertise in requirements elicitation, process mapping, and solution design.
• Ability to manage ambiguity and balance competing stakeholder priorities.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills at all levels.
• Comfortable working across Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery environments.
• Proven experience delivering across the full project lifecycle within regulatory change or financial crime programmes.
• Strong knowledge of financial crime compliance frameworks, governance structures, and risk management.
• Demonstrable experience facilitating workshops and producing high-quality analysis artefacts.
• Solid understanding of financial services products, processes, and regulatory practices.