Business Analyst - Financial Crime

Financial Crime Business Analyst

Initial 4-6 months

£65-68k 6 month FTC

2 days on site - London

emagine is a high-end professional services consultancy and solutions firm specialising in providing business and technology services to the financial services sector. We power progress, solve challenges, and deliver real results through tailored high-end consulting services and solutions.

We have created a culture of openness and integrity by building genuine and strong relationships and partnerships, enabling us to be uncompromising in our dedication to delivering the optimal service for our clients. Our commitment is not just towards our clients — we aim to foster a positive and equitable working environment with our consultants and colleagues, which stems from our core values: Confident, Dedicated, Responsible, Genuine.

We are seeking a highly skilled Financial Crime Business Analyst to drive analysis and change delivery across Financial Crime (FC) investigation workflows, with a focus on Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) processes. This role covers end-to-end business analysis—from requirements elicitation and process design to UAT and production readiness—ensuring controls, MI/reporting, and policy-to-procedure alignment meet global regulatory expectations.

Main Responsibilities

Requirements & Analysis

• Elicit, document, and maintain business, functional, and non-functional requirements (BRD/FRD/Use Cases) for FIU operations, case management, and investigation workflows.

• Translate policy and regulatory changes (e.g., FATF, FCA/JMLSG, EU AMLDs) into actionable process specifications and control designs.

• Define data requirements for investigations, including customer, transaction, KYC/CDD/EDD, screening hits, transaction monitoring alerts, and adverse media.

• Map current-state FIU processes (intake, triage, investigation, escalation, SAR/STR submission) and design target-state workflows with clear SLAs, hand-offs, and audit trails.

• Define control points, quality checks, QA sampling, and key risk indicators/KPIs (e.g., alert aging, false positive rates, time-to-close, SAR conversion).

Stakeholder Management & Delivery

• Partner with operational teams, compliance, and technology to ensure requirements are implemented effectively.

• Support UAT, production readiness, and process adoption across FIU and wider Financial Crime operations.

• Ensure MI/reporting and controls are aligned with policy, regulatory expectations, and operational excellence objectives.

Key Requirements

• Experience as a business analyst within Financial Crime environments.

• Proficiency in requirements gathering, documentation, and process mapping.

• Strong understanding of regulatory frameworks (FATF, FCA, EU AML).

• Strong analytical and investigative skills with experience in case management and workflow design.

• Proven ability to map processes and design efficient, compliant workflows.

• Experience with regulatory reporting tools and AML transaction monitoring systems.

• Background in financial services, banking, or compliance sectors..

Our People

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working. As your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle, from strategy to implementation. This will provide you with a broad base of experience from which to build an outstanding career.

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working and as your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle.

We pride ourselves on;

• Providing our people with a supportive culture, rooted in our values and driven by our purpose.

• Promoting a culture of inclusion, collaboration, well-being, and learning and development.

• Providing increased agility and flexibility within our hybrid working model

• Investing in employees’ growth through ongoing training and development

• Autonomy to take ownership of projects, making decisions and demonstrating individual expertise

• Providing an transparent performance and career management experience.

Our consultants are integral to delivering successful consulting engagements, addressing our clients’ most pressing business challenges, and build lasting value in disciplines such as:

• Solve sophisticated, ambiguous business, change and technology problems, bringing structure and meticulous analysis and planning, acting, and taking decisions with little strategic direction

• Build, develop and sustain trusted senior client relationships in the C-suite by remaining highly attuned to client needs

• Drive, enable and support the business, partnering with our leaders, clients, and consultants across our practices to take the best of emagine to our clients through opportunity identification/qualification, solution development/presentation

Interested?

At emagine, we are committed to building an international and diverse team by embracing our different backgrounds.

If you are up to the challenge and would like to find out more, get in touch with us immediately, our internal recruitment team is always keen to hear from dynamic individuals that are looking to further their career and explore their full potential. 

“emagine is an equal opportunity employer, and employment practices are based strictly on merit. It is the policy of the Company to give equal opportunity in employment regardless of sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, religion or ethnic origin”