Systems Analyst - Financial Crime Compliance

United Trust Bank is a fast growing specialist lender. Our Financial Crime team are looking to hire a Systems Analyst who will be the SME for the department's systems.

This is a hybrid role working 3 days in the office (City of London location) and 2 days working from home.

Role Purpose:

• To represent the Financial Crime team in projects that impact the Bank’s exposure to financial crime
• To assist the Head of Financial Crime in the selection of any third-party providers used within the Bank’s Financial Crime Control environment. By leveraging technical skills and analytical capabilities, this role controls the development and maintenance of systems that detect and prevent financial crimes, ultimately supporting the integrity of the banking system

Responsibilities:

• Managing and owning the Lexis Nexis RiskNarrative (LNRN) project from a financial crime compliance perspective
• Working with other business units, to identify LNRN project deliverables and timelines
• Support LNRN project plan and monitor closely to ensure successful delivery
• Deliver assigned financial crime compliance deliverables for LNRN project to agreed timelines, scope, and quality
• Identify LNRN project risks and issues and escalate these as appropriate with mitigation plans
• Ensure the LNRN project is delivered to required quality with evidenced testing to support this
• Complete on-going testing to ensure LNRN and other third-party solutions are operating in line with requirements and the Bank’s risk appetite
• Create and maintain appropriate MI to evidence the effectiveness of the controls
• Make recommendations to the Head of Financial Crime on control environment changes to further enhance the Bank’s control environment
• Responsible for acting as the Financial Crime key stakeholder in Bank-wide projects
• Establish good working relationships with relevant project stakeholders for efficient implementation
• Liaise with Lexis Nexis and other third parties to deliver on project components
• Providing regular status updates on progress of LNRN project to Head of Financial Crime and UTB Committees as required
• Support Head of Financial Crime with other ad hoc work and system projects as required

Skills and Experience Sought:

• Experience of compliance system implementations (i.e. LexisNexis Risk Narrative) and development lifecycles, the roles and responsibilities on large projects and the motivations of the various stakeholders involved
• Experience working in a regulated environment (FCA, PRA) and knowledge of the financial crime compliance requirements associated with this
• Experience in documenting requirements, validating functional specifications, drafting testing approach plans and user acceptance test cases
• Understanding of how projects are delivered, including project lifecycle. Ability to understand and document processes using data flow diagrams
• Strong ability to understand and use complex systems and take a logical and constructive approach to investigating and communicating system problems
• Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships across all areas of the firm and communicate effectively across all levels
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, high level VBA skills within Excel

Equal Opportunities

We're an equal opportunity employer, which means we'll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and we're committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. During the application process, you will be asked to complete an equality questionnaire on a voluntary basis and any data we collect will be treated confidentially and used for evaluation purposes. This will be for a period of 6 months or longer with your permission. This helps us understand our applicants so we can make sure we are doing everything we can to attract a diverse range of people and ensure our recruitment processes are fair and inclusive.