Business Analyst - Financial Crime

Job Title: Business Analyst – Financial Crime

Location: London

About the Job you are considering:
The Business Analyst – Financial Crime supports the successful delivery of Financial Crime transformation and regulatory change initiatives across KYC, AML, Sanctions, Client Onboarding, and broader risk and control-focused programmes. The role is responsible for requirements analysis, process assessment, impact evaluation, and supporting controlled delivery of business and technology change.

Working closely with Compliance, Operations, Technology, Product Owners, Risk teams, and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), the Business Analyst ensures that regulatory obligations, business objectives, and operational requirements are accurately translated into high-quality solutions that strengthen the Financial Crime control environment.

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:

Business Analysis & Requirements Management

• Support the definition of project scope, business analysis approach, and required BA deliverables.
• Conduct requirements gathering through workshops, stakeholder interviews, process walkthroughs, and document analysis.
• Produce clear, concise, and testable business requirements, functional specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Ensure requirements align with regulatory obligations, internal policies, and strategic business objectives.
• Maintain end-to-end requirements traceability throughout analysis, design, development, testing, and implementation phases.
• Support prioritization and management of requirements across multiple workstreams.

Financial Crime & Regulatory Analysis

• Analyze Financial Crime business processes covering KYC, AML, Customer Due Diligence (CDD), Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD), Sanctions Screening, and onboarding controls.
• Assess regulatory impacts and support interpretation of policy requirements into business processes and controls.
• Identify compliance risks, control weaknesses, process gaps, and remediation opportunities.
• Contribute to regulatory change initiatives and control enhancement programmes.
• Support the implementation of sustainable solutions that improve risk management and regulatory compliance.

Process Improvement & Control Design

• Document and maintain accurate As-Is process flows and control frameworks.
• Support the design and validation of To-Be processes focused on efficiency, control effectiveness, and operational excellence.
• Perform gap analysis, root cause analysis, and impact assessments.
• Evaluate dependencies across systems, processes, controls, and operational functions.
• Recommend process improvements that drive simplification, consistency, and risk reduction.

Your Skills:

Essential

• Proven Business Analysis experience within Financial Services, Banking, Risk, Compliance, or Regulatory Change environments.
• Strong experience in requirements elicitation, documentation, process analysis, and stakeholder management.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex business issues into structured requirements and actionable solutions.
• Experience facilitating workshops and working with cross-functional teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Understanding of Financial Crime disciplines including KYC, AML, CDD, EDD, Sanctions, or Client Onboarding processes.
• Experience supporting project delivery through analysis, testing, and implementation phases.

Desirable

• Experience supporting Financial Crime regulatory change programmes.
• Knowledge of control design, control remediation, and risk reduction initiatives.
• Exposure to operating model design, workflow optimization, or enterprise process modelling.
• Experience working within Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Background in major banking or financial services institutions.
• Understanding of regulatory frameworks and compliance obligations impacting Financial Crime operations.

We are a Disability Confident Employer:

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:

• Declare they have a disability, and 
• Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.

Please opt in during the application process.

Make It Real (what does it mean for you):

• You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation.  We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. 
  To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
• You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.
• You will be joining one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies®, as recognised by Ethisphere® for 13 consecutive years. We live our values by making ethical business choices every day. Working ethically is at the centre of our culture at Capgemini, meaning you will be helping to create a future we can all be proud of.
  
  

Why you should consider Capgemini:

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask.  When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts.  We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible.  It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future.  By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini:

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.
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