Financial Crime Business Analyst - Northampton

FDM Group; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy firm in the UK is seeking an experienced Financial Crime Business Analyst for a hybrid role in Northampton. This position involves supporting compliance initiatives, defining change roadmaps, and collaborating with stakeholders across various teams. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in financial crime analysis and regulatory requirements. Competitive benefits including career coaching and opportunities for professional development are offered.

Benefits

Career coaching

Annual leave

Work-place pension

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst in Financial Crime, AML or Compliance.
• Strong knowledge of regulatory requirements and financial crime typologies.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Support the end-to-end rollout of updated policies and standards.
• Define and drive the change roadmap for compliance initiatives.
• Establish strong project governance and communication channels.
• Support the delivery of the Risk Reduction Plan for operational processes.
• Analyse business processes and emerging financial crime trends.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Communication

Organisational skills

Analytical skills

Problem solving

Education

Relevant certifications (CAMS, ICA, CFE)

Tools

Process mapping tools

Job description

Financial Crime Business Analyst - Northampton

About The Role

FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking an experienced Financial Crime Business Analyst to work for our client within the banking sector. This is initially a 3-month contract with the potential to extend and will be a hybrid role based in Northampton.

The role bridges the gap between business needs, compliance requirements, and technology solutions.

This is a fantastic opportunity to drive meaningful change in a highly regulated and evolving environment. We invite candidates with strong stakeholder engagement, communication, and organisational skills to apply.

Responsibilities:

• Support the end-to-end rollout of updated policies and standards, working closely with key stakeholders to re-write processes and standard operating procedures.
• Define and drive the change roadmap, setting out key deliverables to ensure timely execution of financial crime and compliance initiatives.
• Establish strong project governance, implement effective communication channels across business and compliance teams, and embed industry best practices to ensure successful delivery in a highly regulated environment.
• Support the delivery of the Risk Reduction Plan, focusing on initiatives that enhance operational processes and strengthen risk awareness across teams. You'll help assess impacts on people and workflows, ensuring sustainable risk mitigation in line with regulatory expectations and internal control frameworks.
• Analyse end-to-end business processes, data sets, and emerging financial crime trends to proactively identify risk exposures and support the development of effective mitigation strategies.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders across Compliance, Risk, and Technology to gather, document, and validate business and functional requirements for financial crime initiatives, including AML, sanctions screening, and fraud prevention - ensuring solutions meet regulatory standards and operational needs.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive business requirements documents, detailed process flows, and functional specifications.
• Identify control gaps and inefficiencies within financial crime processes, and provide actionable recommendations to enhance operational effectiveness, regulatory compliance, and risk mitigation.

About You

Requirements:

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst in Financial Crime, AML or Compliance
• Proven Business Readiness experience
• Strong knowledge of regulatory requirements and financial crime typologies
• Proficiency in process mapping tools
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and documentation skills

Desirable:

• Relevant certifications (eg CAMS, ICA, CFE) are preferred but not required

About Us

Why join us?

• Career coaching, mentoring and access to upskilling throughout your entire FDM career
• Assignments with global companies and opportunities to work abroad
• Opportunity to re-skill and up-skill into new areas, develop non-linear career paths and build a skillset within your field
• Annual leave, work-place pension and BAYE share scheme

About FDM

We are a business and technology consultancy and one of the UK's leading employers, recruiting the brightest talent to become the innovators of tomorrow. We have centres across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, and a global workforce of over 3,500 Consultants. FDM has shown exponential growth throughout the years, firmly establishing itself as an award-winning employer and is listed on the FTSE4Good Index.

Diversity and Inclusion

FDM Group is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, provincial or local laws.