Business Analyst

Avance Consulting; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A consulting firm in Greater London is hiring a Business Analyst focused on transaction monitoring in the financial crime sector. The role involves detailed requirements gathering, data mapping, and a transition to a Behavior-Driven Development approach. Ideal candidates will possess experience in the Anti-Financial Crime space, user story creation, and basic SQL for data analysis. Familiarity with Python is desirable. This position offers the opportunity to influence monitoring practices on a global scale.

Qualifications

• Experience in Transaction monitoring / Anti-Financial Crime (AFC) space.
• Ability to create user stories and drive solutions in an Agile team.
• Ability to write basic SQL queries for data analysis.

Responsibilities

• Gather detailed requirements and document them.
• Create data mapping and transformation specifications.
• Transition from traditional documents to a BDD approach.
• Establish benchmarks for model specification capabilities.

Skills

Transaction monitoring

Agile methodology

SQL

Data analysis

Tools

Python

Job description

The Role

As a Business Analyst you will be responsible for Transaction monitoring for financial crime. Team works closely with front office with a strong quantitative focus. Associate is expected to establish a benchmark for the "model specification" capability. The successful process will then be cloned for other regions across the world. Role primarily focuses on payments but can also include loans and trade transactions, varying by region. The team works with the business to validate and implement the monitoring scope.

Key responsibilities :

• Detailed requirements gathering and documentation.
• Creating granular data mapping and transformation specifications (down to the data element level).
• Moving from traditional Word documents to a Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) approach using the "Given-When-Then" syntax.
• To establish a benchmark for the "model specification" capability.

Your Profile

Essential skills / knowledge / experience :

• Experience in Transaction monitoring / AFC space
• Ability to create user stories with right analysis and drive the solution in an Agile team
• Ability to write simple SQL queries to be able to perform data analysis

Desirable skills / knowledge / experience :

• Working knowledge on Python.