Job Title: Senior Business Analyst
Location: London/Northampton
Role Overview
The Business Analyst (AVP) will lead analytical activities across Financial Crime change initiatives, covering KYC, AML, Sanctions, Client Onboarding, and control‑uplift programmes. This role provides analytical leadership, shapes end‑to‑end solution design, ensures regulatory alignment, and drives decision‑making across senior stakeholders.
The AVP will support the entire change lifecycle — from scope definition and requirements gathering through to solution design, testing, readiness, and implementation — partnering closely with SMEs, Product Owners, Compliance, Technology, and Operations.
Hybrid working:
The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.
Your Role
Key Responsibilities
- Analysis Leadership
- Define analysis scope, approach, deliverables, and governance for Financial Crime transformation initiatives
- Lead requirements elicitation, ensuring clarity, completeness, regulatory alignment, and consistent traceability
- Challenge and refine business needs with senior stakeholders, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives
- Requirements & Process Analysis
- Produce well‑structured, testable requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria for cross‑functional workstreams
- Conduct detailed current‑state assessments, control evaluations, and data flow mapping
- Identify systemic gaps, process inefficiencies, dependencies, and opportunities for control enhancement
- Shape the future‑state processes, controls, and operating models, ensuring compliance, scalability, and operational efficiency
- Stakeholder Management & Facilitation
- Influence senior stakeholders across Compliance, Operations, Technology, Risk, and Product