Financial Crime Technical Business Analyst

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Job Title: Financial Crime Technical Business Analyst

Contract: Initial 6-Month Contract with potential to extend.

Location: London (2 days in office)

Rate: £550 - £650 inside umbrella

The Technical Business Analyst (TBA) is responsible for managing and maintaining the change lifecycle for the Financial Crime transaction risk analysis and fraud prevention platform. This role involves overseeing project deliverables, driving project management activities, and ensuring effective communication and stakeholder engagement across both business and technical team. The Technical Business Analyst is responsible for working closely with supporting ITSD technical teams to ensure that the product service is supported and maintained in line with the SLA.

Scale:

• Communicate with senior stakeholders to understand requirements, priorities, and report project progress.
• Take ownership and be held accountable for development and test deliveries, managing vendors and QA teams.
• Ensure that service providers are providing the service as expected, track this with KPI's.
• Collaborate and consult with project teams to analyse problems and influence best practice and creativity to resolve them.
• Responsible for working with multiple teams to ensure effective outcome.
• Ensuring that development is carried out correctly by our suppliers.

Accountabilities & Responsibilities:

• Manage, enhance, and support the banks Fraud fin crime (Actimize) applications.
• Manage and support the bank's Actimize fraud and financial crime applications.
• Drive and support multi-jurisdictional change initiatives to ensure compliance with global regulatory standards.
• Provide oversight and coordination for team activities.
• Deliver business analysis for EMEA requirements and contribute technical expertise to global projects.
• Perform impact assessments and gap analyses to translate business requirements into technical functional specifications.
• Collaborate with technology teams and vendors to define and deliver functional solutions within scope and timelines.
• Create and manage change requests for ongoing projects.
• Perform non-functional /technical testing and assist QA/UAT teams with validation and clarifications.
• Maintain vendor defect logs for assigned projects.
• Analyze business problems and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Gather and document business requirements and conduct data analysis to support decision-making.
• Recommend ways to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance quality.
• Work with cross-functional Agile teams and participate in Agile ceremonies.
• Manage and Provide updates on project progress, milestones, and dependencies.
• Use data to generate insights and support business strategies

Knowledge & Experience:

• Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Years of proven experience in technical business analysis within a financial institution, focusing on fraud prevention, and regulatory change programs.
• Good understanding of payments, financial crime, and compliance business domains.
• Strong experience delivering end-to-end IT projects, including scope definition, coordination, milestone tracking, and risk/issue management.
• Hands-on experience with fraud detection, payment systems, and regulatory compliance platforms (Actimize IFM preferred).
• Good knowledge of the Actimize platform, including policy rule configuration, fraud analytics, alert workflows, and transaction risk analysis.
• Ability to translate regulatory and fraud-risk requirements into clear business and technical specifications.
• Experience performing GAP analysis, impact assessments (e.g.,VOP, SEPAIP, ISO 20022, TRA), and documenting functional/technical requirements.
• Familiarity with risk-scoring models and global financial crime regulations.
• Proficient in project and delivery tools such as JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNow (SNOW), Power BI, and Microsoft Project (MPP).
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments, contributing to ceremonies and cross-functional collaboration.
• Demonstrated accountability in managing services, resolving issues, and coordinating stakeholders across teams or regions.

Skills:

• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving abilities
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to clearly articulate requirements to both business and technical audiences
• Strong ability to influence and collaborate with internal teams, vendors, and business stakeholders.
• Effective interperso