Senior Business Analyst (AML/AFC)

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Business Analyst (AML/AFC)
• Focus: AML/AFC system management, Transaction Monitoring, CARS implementation, Salesforce migration

Description

You will support the AML/AFC system management unit, with primary focus on new CARS implementation and Transaction Monitoring requirements/configuration, plus Salesforce migration. The role translates business and regulatory requirements into technical specifications, designs monitoring scenarios and rules, and supports risk scoring and investigation workflows. You’ll also analyse customer and payment data, support ETL/data quality activities, and help drive AFC process improvements using process mining and change management.

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/validation of customer risk scoring models and investigation workflows
• Contribute to CARS implementation and Salesforce migration (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 to improve AFC processes and controls
• Produce typology documentation, analytical reports and stakeholder presentations
• Coordinate requirements and implementation activities across business, data and technology teams

Requirements

• Minimum 7 years of professional experience in banking and financial crime
• Extensive hands-on experience in AML/AFC processes and Financial Crime Risk Management
• Proven experience with Transaction Monitoring scenarios, business rules, risk scoring models, and investigation workflows
• Strong business analysis, process mining and change management capabilities
• Advanced SQL for complex data extraction, efficient joins, and query optimisation
• Python for data extraction and analysis (including statistical/data analysis)
• Experience with customer and payment data ETL and data flow investigation
• Experience preparing technical and typology documentation, analytical reports, and presentations
• Understanding of event-driven architectures and data lakes/warehouses (Kafka/Kubernetes desirable)
• Ability to work with Jira, Confluence and Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe)
• Strong stakeholder management and clear written/verbal communication
• Fluent spoken and written English

Benefits

• Long-term opportunity and engagement with a strategic AFC programme across multiple delivery streams
• Opportunity to work across business and technology teams and influence enterprise-level AML/AFC capabilities
• Professional development through collaboration and exposure to current AFC tools and architectures