Business Analyst - KYC/AML/CDD - TOM

Business Analyst - KYC/AML/CDD - Building TOM

A Leading Financial Services business are looking to hire a Business Analyst, ideally with extensive experience within KYC/AML/CDD projects and having set up new Target Operating Models on a Global scale.

• 6 month initial contract (significant scope to roll)
• £600 - £700 pd via Umbrella company (Inside IR35)
• Based in London, City.
• Hybrid Working - 3 days in the office (flexible)

Overview

This role will deliver the Business Analysis function for this project, working with teams across Financial Crime, Compliance, Operations, Regulatory, Legal and IT in London and the other EMEA offices.

The ideal candidate for this role is a Business Analyst with a demonstrable track record of delivering complex change projects within a corporate banking environment. The candidate should have:

• Extensive knowledge and experience in business related activities ahead of a KYC/CDD platform implementation and should be able to demonstrate end-to-end delivery of business driven change within a financial services organisation.
• Experience of delivering Client Onboarding, KYC/AML and CDD processes, ideally implementing a Client Onboarding platform solution across a number of regions/jurisdictions with common requirements across bank subsidiaries/Legal Entities (LE) while also identifying varied/unique requirements local to particular jurisdiction/s.
• Knowledge in the areas of CLM / KYC / ALM to accurately interpret local regulations and compliance procedures.
• Ability to develop policy documentation (front to back) through close collaboration with multiple teams and people. Subsequent experience working with technology teams to integrate policy documentation and hence offer support to IT for producing technology requirements and functional specifications.
• Good understanding in information security and data privacy regulations in the EU.
• Understanding of Regulatory documentation and experience interpreting policy documentation and operational guidance.
• Adept in documenting process flows using Microsoft Visio and prepare high quality presentations using standard Microsoft Office tools.
• Exceptional stakeholder communication skills and experience working with senior level internal and external stakeholders through various mediums across geographies.
• Strong track record of building successful and lasting stakeholder relationships.

Duties and Responsibilities

Business Analysis

• Review and update 'AS IS' and 'TO BE' process flows, to ensure that they reflect current end-to-end operating model of the Client Lifecycle Management function.
• In the process, liaise and collaborate with individual business teams across EMEA to identify any regional process flow deviations and also ascertain common/unique tasks, roles & responsibilities.
• Supplement the information upon capturing the process flows and requirements detail which documents a customers need to provide to the Bank to enable them to trade from Financial Crime Policies, Compliance, AML, Operations, Legal and Compliance perspective. Update process flows to complete documentation of 'AS IS' processes and workflows.
• Review and analyse Global TOM, organise/participate in workshops with Project team to customise the TOM to make it fit for purpose for London and rest of EMEA.
• Identify changes in the Data Model and assist in the identification and documentation of data requirements in the onboarding platform and downstream.
• Operate effective change control and promptly report risks, dependencies and issues.

Quality & Assurance

• Develop Use cases, Functional Specifications and Test scenarios ensuring Requirements traceability.
• Assist in preparing Data Mapping documentation.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience

• University degree or equivalent
• Strong business process and data analysis skills and tools
• Understanding of Customer Lifecycle Management front to back processes including Client Onboarding, rolling reviews, product registration and offboarding processes in a Corporate Banking environment with ideally system implementation experience in a similar environment. Securities experience too is desirable.
• Strong communication skills.
• Ability to engage with a wide range of stakeholders in order to gather information across Front & Middle Office, Operations, AML, Financial Crime Policies, Compliance, Legal and Regulatory functions.
• Demonstrable corporate banking products knowledge.
• Ability to efficiently handle complex datasets in Excel, Access and other bespoke internal systems.