Our client, a major UK retail bank, provides everyday banking services to over 17 million retail customers. Their expertise spans Business Services, Corporate Banking, Wealth Management, Group Functions, Retail and Investment Banking. In a 12‑month contract, AMS is seeking a Transaction Monitoring Business Analyst (SQL) located in London, Manchester or Edinburgh (2 days per week in the office). The assignment is undertaken under an umbrella or PAYE engagement model.
Purpose of the Role
Focus on identifying financial crime risk, meeting regulatory expectations, and improving alert quality and risk coverage. Work closely with AML SMEs, data and modelling teams, technology partners, and compliance stakeholders.
Responsibilities
* Translate AML risk typologies and regulatory requirements into clear functional and data requirements for machine‑learning‑based transaction monitoring solutions.
* Elicit, document and manage business, regulatory, and operational requirements across the end‑to‑end monitoring lifecycle, including future‑state process design.
* Collaborate with data engineers and modelling teams to confirm data availability, data quality, feature mapping and model readiness, ensuring model outputs align with financial crime risk indicators.
* Support design of end‑to‑end workflows from data ingestion through scoring, alerting and case management.
* Contribute to UAT, scenario walkthroughs and model validation, ensuring outcomes meet regulatory expectations for explainability, transparency and bias management.
* Facilitate workshops and playback sessions, translate technical concepts into business‑friendly language, and support training, communications and post‑go‑live refinement.
Qualifications
* Strong AML/Transaction Monitoring experience with deep understanding of financial crime risk and alerting frameworks.
* Hands‑on data capability, including strong SQL skills and ability to extract and analyse transaction and customer data independently.
* Experience delivering analytics, AI or machine‑learning solutions.
* Business analysis background with proven experience defining scope and writing high‑quality requirements in complex change programmes.
* Agile delivery experience and comfort working in fast‑paced, multi‑stream environments.
* Excellent communication skills.
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