Senior Business Analyst (AML/AFC)

The Financial Crime Risk Management Department of a banking end client is seeking a Senior Business Analyst (AML/AFC) to join the Anti-Financial Crime (AFC) System Management Unit. The person in this role will support the AML/KYC/CARS/EDD/Tax Value Stream, with primary focus on new CARS implementation, Transaction Monitoring requirements and implementation, Salesforce migration, and ongoing configuration support for Application Owners. The role requires close collaboration with business and technology stakeholders to analyse requirements, define solutions, optimise AFC processes and support delivery of technical capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Gather, analyse and translate business and regulatory requirements into technical specifications and implementation documentation.
• Design, implement and maintain Transaction Monitoring scenarios, business rules and related configurations.
• Support development and validation of customer risk scoring models and design optimised investigation workflows.
• Contribute to the CARS implementation and Salesforce migration efforts, including application configuration and coordination with Application Owners.
• Analyse customer and payment data, investigate data flows and support ETL and data quality activities.
• Apply process mining and change management practices to drive improvements in AFC processes and controls.
• Produce technical and typology documentation, analytical reports and stakeholder presentations.
• Coordinate requirements and implementation activities across business, data and technology teams to ensure alignment and timely delivery.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of professional experience, with extensive, proven hands-on experience in banking and financial crime domains.
• Solid practical expertise in AML/AFC processes, Financial Crime Risk Management, relevant methodologies, regulatory requirements and industry guidelines.
• Proven experience designing and maintaining Transaction Monitoring scenarios, business rules, customer risk scoring models and investigation workflows.
• Strong business analysis, process mining and change management capabilities.
• Advanced SQL skills for complex data extraction, efficient joins and query optimisation across large datasets.
• Proficiency in Python for data extraction and analysis, supported by statistical and data analysis skills.
• Experience with customer and payment data ETL processes and data flow investigation.
• Experience preparing technical specifications, implementation and typology documentation, analytical reports and presentations.
• Understanding of event-driven architectures, data lakes and data warehouses; familiarity with Kafka, Kubernetes and related tooling is desirable.
• Experience with Power BI and Tableau and practical knowledge of AWS is advantageous.
• Experience working with Jira, Confluence and Agile frameworks including Scrum, Kanban and SAFe.
• Strong stakeholder management, cross-functional collaboration and clear written and verbal communication skills.
• Fluent spoken and written English.
• Nice to have: experience with Bridger XG, Siron Suite, Compliance Lens or AML Analytics.

Benefits

• Long-term opportunity.
• Engagement with a strategic AFC programme supporting multiple delivery streams, offering varied technical and business challenges.
• Opportunity to work across business and technology teams and influence implementation of enterprise-level AML/AFC capabilities.
• Professional development through collaboration with experienced colleagues and exposure to current AFC tools and architectures.