Compliance Business Analyst

Compliance Business Analyst

£500-£525pd Inside IR35

5 days on site

Initial 6 month project

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.

The Compliance Business Analyst will play a critical role in delivering compliance and financial crime initiatives across the organisation. Acting as a subject matter expert, the role partners closely with Compliance, Financial Crime, Technology, and Business stakeholders to design and implement solutions that meet regulatory obligations while supporting operational efficiency.

This position is instrumental in ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements across Compliance, AML, KYC, Sanctions, and broader Financial Crime frameworks, within complex, regulated banking environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide subject matter expertise across Compliance and Financial Crime processes, including AML, KYC, sanctions screening, and regulatory reporting

• Engage proactively with business users, compliance teams, and technology stakeholders throughout the full project lifecycle

• Lead business requirements gathering, translating regulatory and operational needs into clear, formal documentation (Business Requirements Documents, Functional Specifications)

• Analyse existing processes and formulate value‑driven, compliant solutions, presenting recommendations clearly to senior stakeholders

• Support the design and enhancement of compliance systems, controls, and data flows

• Define testing approaches, develop test plans, and execute system integration testing (SIT)

• Support business stakeholders during User Acceptance Testing (UAT), including defect management and resolution coordination

• Compile and present test results, status reports, and project documentation to relevant forums

• Ensure all project artefacts are complete, accurate, and stored in line with governance standards

• Identify, track, and report project risks, issues, and dependencies to project management

• Promote a culture of responsiveness, collaboration, and high‑quality delivery across teams

• Build strong, effective relationships across Compliance, Financial Crime, Technology, Operations, and Front Office functions

Key Requirements

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst within a top‑tier bank or consultancy

• Strong understanding of the end‑to‑end project lifecycle, including requirements definition, solution design, testing, and delivery

• Solid knowledge of Compliance and Financial Crime, including:

  • AML and KYC

  • Sanctions screening

  • Data quality, governance, and regulatory reporting

• Understanding of banking products, including:

  • Bonds

  • Derivatives

  • FX

• Experience working with data analysis, reconciliations, and controls

• Proficiency in SQL, with the ability to query and analyse datasets

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage senior stakeholders

• Familiarity with Front Office Trading platforms such as Bloomberg and Murex

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”