Job Description
Anti-Financial Crime (AFC) Triggers Business Analyst – Change Delivery Focus
Location: Canary Wharf - Hybrid Working Model
Department: Financial Crime CDD
Reports To: Delivery Lead
Type: Contract till the end of 2025 with likely extension into 2026
Salary: Competitive Day Rate inside IR35
Job Overview:
We are seeking an experienced and detail-oriented Business Analyst with strong expertise in Anti-Financial Crime (AFC) triggers and change delivery to join Deloitte Operations and support our client's CDD Delivery Function. This role will support the enhancement and implementation of trigger-based controls across our financial crime systems, playing a key role in shaping solutions to improve detection and reduce risk across customer lifecycles.
Key Responsibilities:
* Act as a subject matter expert (SME) in AFC triggers, including customer, transaction, and behavioural event triggers.
* Lead end-to-end business analysis activities across AFC change initiatives, from discovery through to delivery.
* Collaborate with stakeholders across Compliance, Technology, Risk, and Business Units to define trigger logic, thresholds, and data requirements.
* Map current state trigger processes and design target operating models (TOM) aligned with regulatory expectations and business goals.
* Gather and document business, functional, and non-functional requirements to support new or enhanced trigger functionality.
* Drive impact assessments and gap analyses for trigger changes across systems, policies, and workflows.
* Partner with technology teams to translate business requirements into actionable development backlogs or configuration changes.
* Support testing, implementation, and post-deployment validation of AFC trigger enhancements.
* Champion change management, ensuring stakeholders are engaged and adoption is smooth, with risks and issues actively managed.
* Maintain documentation for regulatory traceability and audit readiness.
Key Skills & Experience:
* Proven experience as a Business Analyst in Financial Services, ideally within Anti-Financial Crime, Financial Crime Risk, or Compliance functions.
* In-depth understanding of AFC triggers – including KYC refresh, adverse media, sanctions alerts, transaction monitoring, or behavioural anomalies.
* Strong experience in delivering business change initiatives in complex regulatory environments.
* Knowledge of banking products, customer lifecycles, and AML/KYC regulations.
* Demonstrated ability to work with cross-functional teams (e.g. Compliance, IT, Data, Ops).
* Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; comfortable working with data models, flows, and trigger logic.
* Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills – both written and verbal.
* Experience with Agile and/or Waterfall delivery methods.
* Proficiency with tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Visio, Excel, and process modelling software.