Techno-Functional Financial Crime Compliance Business Analyst

Job description / Role

Key responsibilities

End-to-end process mapping

Map financial crime risk processes across multiple business units, segments, and teams. Develop detailed process maps capturing activities, decision points, hand-offs, dependencies, and approvals. Document processes using a consistent, recognised methodology. Identify management information (MI), KPIs, and KRIs associated with each process, including governance forums and oversight responsibilities.

Stakeholder engagement & validation

Engage with process owners, risk owners, compliance, governance, and operations teams to validate process flows. Facilitate workshops and walkthroughs to accurately capture current-state processes. Ensure all documented processes are reviewed and formally signed off by process owners.

Systems & data identification

Identify and document all systems, tools, and data sources supporting each process. Clearly distinguish between manual and system-driven activities and data hand-offs.

Risk & control visibility

Capture key risk points, controls, approvals, and escalation pathways within each process. Ensure alignment with applicable financial crime regulatory and compliance requirements.

AI & automation readiness

Identify manual, repetitive, or decision-heavy process steps suitable for AI or automation. Highlight activities driven by rules, thresholds, or judgement that could benefit from AI-enabled solutions.

Consistency & standardisation

Identify process variations across business units. Recommend opportunities for process standardisation or consolidation where feasible.

Documentation & deliverables

Produce validated, audit-ready deliverables including:

• Process maps
• Process narratives
• RACI matrices

Deliver outputs in a reusable format suitable for future transformation and AI initiatives. Provide regular progress updates and final reporting to key stakeholders, including compliance and process owners.

Knowledge transfer

Conduct structured handovers and walkthroughs to enable internal teams to maintain and evolve the process documentation post-engagement.