Finance Crime Compliance Business Analyst

Stott and May; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking an experienced Finance Crime Compliance Business Analyst in London. This hybrid position involves enhancing financial crime compliance frameworks and collaborating with key teams. Responsibilities include analyzing compliance frameworks, producing documentation, and facilitating stakeholder workshops. The ideal candidate has strong analytical skills, experience in regulatory change, and a solid understanding of financial services. This role offers a competitive day rate of £467 for a duration of 6 months.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical capability to interpret regulatory requirements.
• Proven expertise in requirements elicitation and process mapping.
• Experience in delivering across the full project lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Analyse financial crime compliance frameworks and identify gaps.
• Produce business requirements documentation and process maps.
• Facilitate workshops to validate requirements with stakeholders.
• Collaborate with teams to embed frameworks into BAU processes.

Skills

Strong analytical capability

Requirements elicitation

Process mapping

Solution design

Stakeholder engagement

Agile methodologies

Waterfall methodologies

Financial services knowledge

Job description

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.