Lead Business Analyst - Banking + Financial Crime Prevention

Technical Business Analyst

Responsibilities

• Act as the bridge between business and technology, translating business requirements into clear, actionable technical changes
• Lead and support initiatives in financial crime prevention, particularly in the area of name screening
• Work across the client lifecycle management domain, including client onboarding and offboarding processes
• Drive change from the ground up, challenge the status quo and propose effective solutions
• Collaborate with multiple stakeholders, managing and aligning diverse requirements and expectations
• Liaise closely with developers to clarify requirements, resolve their queries, and explain business needs in technical terms
• Perform detailed data analysis using SQL to support decision-making and solution design
• Contribute to the delivery of both greenfield and brownfield projects, ensuring high-quality outcomes
• Support Scrum Master responsibilities, including managing and maintaining GitLab boards to track and prioritize work items
• Assist in testing activities to validate deployments in lower environments, ensuring solutions meet business and technical expectations

Requirements

• 10-15 years of overall experience in IT, including 8+ years as a technical BA, primarily within the banking domain
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or related discipline
• Proven record of working with complex engineering teams and enterprise-scale change in banking or financial services
• Expertise in financial crime prevention, with hands-on experience in name screening
• Understanding of client lifecycle management, including onboarding and offboarding
• Proven experience delivering greenfield and brownfield projects
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to think fast and respond quickly in dynamic environments
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with business and technical stakeholders
• Capability to work closely with developers to sort their queries and explain requirements and solutions in technical language
• Demonstrated ability to convert complex business requirements into well-defined technical specifications and deliverables
• Proficiency in SQL, Power BI and GitLab for data analysis, reporting and Scrum Master duties such as managing boards, backlogs and workflow visibility

Nice to have

• Basic Python skills
• Experience working on Agentic AI or similar AI-driven projects