Financial Crime Business Analyst - Northampton

• Support the end-to-end rollout of updated policies and standards, working closely with key stakeholders to re-write processes and standard operating procedures.
• Define and drive the change roadmap, setting out key deliverables to ensure timely execution of financial crime and compliance initiatives. 
• Establish strong project governance, implement effective communication channels across business and compliance teams, and embed industry best practices to ensure successful delivery in a highly regulated environment.
• Support the delivery of the Risk Reduction Plan, focusing on initiatives that enhance operational processes and strengthen risk awareness across teams. You'll help assess impacts on people and workflows, ensuring sustainable risk mitigation in line with regulatory expectations and internal control frameworks.
• Analyse end-to-end business processes, data sets, and emerging financial crime trends to proactively identify risk exposures and support the development of effective mitigation strategies.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders across Compliance, Risk, and Technology to gather, document, and validate business and functional requirements for financial crime initiatives, including AML, sanctions screening, and fraud prevention - ensuring solutions meet regulatory standards and operational needs.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive business requirements documents, detailed process flows, and functional specifications.
• Identify control gaps and inefficiencies within financial crime processes, and provide actionable recommendations to enhance operational effectiveness, regulatory compliance, and risk mitigation.

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst in Financial Crime, AML or Compliance
• Proven Business Readiness experience
• Strong knowledge of regulatory requirements and financial crime typologies
• Proficiency in process mapping tools 
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and documentation skills

• Relevant certifications (eg CAMS, ICA, CFE) are preferred but not required

Why join us?

• Career coaching, mentoring and access to upskilling throughout your entire FDM career
• Assignments with global companies and opportunities to work abroad
• Opportunity to re-skill and up-skill into new areas, develop non-linear career paths and build a skillset within your field
• Annual leave, work-place pension and BAYE share scheme

About FDM

We are a business and technology consultancy and one of the UK's leading employers, recruiting the brightest talent to become the innovators of tomorrow. We have centres across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, and a global workforce of over 3,500 Consultants. FDM has shown exponential growth throughout the years, firmly establishing itself as an award-winning employer and is listed on the FTSE4Good Index.

Diversity and Inclusion

FDM Group is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, provincial or local laws.