Job Description

Job Title: Senior Business Analyst

Location: London/Northampton

The Business Analyst (AVP) will lead analytical activities across Financial Crime change initiatives, covering KYC, AML, Sanctions, Client Onboarding, and control‑uplift programmes. This role provides analytical leadership, shapes end‑to‑end solution design, ensures regulatory alignment, and drives decision‑making across senior stakeholders.

The AVP will support the entire change lifecycle — from scope definition and requirements gathering through to solution design, testing, readiness, and implementation — partnering closely with SMEs, Product Owners, Compliance, Technology, and Operations.

Hybrid working:

The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

Your Role

Key Responsibilities

1. Analysis Leadership

• Define analysis scope, approach, deliverables, and governance for Financial Crime transformation initiatives
• Lead requirements elicitation, ensuring clarity, completeness, regulatory alignment, and consistent traceability
• Challenge and refine business needs with senior stakeholders, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives

2. Requirements & Process Analysis

• Produce well‑structured, testable requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria for cross‑functional workstreams
• Conduct detailed current‑state assessments, control evaluations, and data flow mapping
• Identify systemic gaps, process inefficiencies, dependencies, and opportunities for control enhancement
• Shape the future‑state processes, controls, and operating models, ensuring compliance, scalability, and operational efficiency

3. Stakeholder Management & Facilitation

• Influence senior stakeholders across Compliance, Operations, Technology, Risk, and Product
• Facilitate workshops to drive alignment, clarify requirements, and resolve cross‑functional challenges
• Provide analytical insight to support risk reviews, design decisions, and governance forums

4. Delivery Support & Change Execution

• Support solution design, ensuring alignment between regulatory intent, business needs, and technical feasibility
• Contribute to test strategy, coverage planning, and end‑to‑end delivery validation
• Drive business readiness activities, including:
  • Training inputs
  • Procedures & control documentation
  • Operational readiness assurance

5. Change Adoption & Quality Assurance

• Ensure deliverables meet regulatory expectations and internal quality standards
• Support change adoption, ensuring smooth transition into BAU
• Provide leadership in root‑cause analysis and remediation planning where required

Your Job

Mandatory Skills & Experience

• Extensive Business Analysis experience within Financial Crime, regulatory change, or control‑heavy environments
• Strong capability across requirements governance, process/control analysis, and multi‑team delivery
• Ability to interpret and translate regulatory expectations across AML, KYC, Sanctions into actionable change requirements
• Excellent communication, structured documentation skills, and ability to influence senior stakeholders
• Proven ability to drive complex analysis across large, multi‑disciplinary programmes

Desirable Skills

• Experience designing enterprise‑level operating models and control frameworks
• Knowledge of JIRA, Confluence, Visio, and workflow/automation platforms
• Experience working on regulatory remediation, control uplift, or enforcement‑driven programmes
• Experience mentoring and coaching Business Analysts

We are a Disability Confident Employer:

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme.As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:

• Declare they have a disability, and
• Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.

Please opt in during the application process.

Make It Real (what does it mean for you):

• You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions.
  To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
• You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.
• You will be joining one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies®, as recognised by Ethisphere® for 13 consecutive years. We live our values by making ethical business choices every day. Working ethically is at the centre of our culture at Capgemini, meaning you will be helping to create a future we can all be proud of.

Why you should consider Capgemini:

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini:

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.
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