Business Analyst Life- Financial Crime in Edinburgh, Scotland

At M&G our purpose is to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work. As an international savings and investments business with roots stretching back more than 170 years, we offer a range of financial products and services through Asset Management, Life and Wealth. All three operating segments work together to deliver attractive financial outcomes for our clients, and superior shareholder returns.

AMS is a global workforce solutions partner committed to creating inclusive, dynamic, and future-ready workplaces. We help organisations adapt, grow, and thrive in an ever-evolving world by building, shaping, and optimising diverse talent strategies. We partner with M&G to support their contingent recruitment processes.

On behalf of M&G, AMS are looking for a Business Analyst Life- Financial Crime based in Edinburgh/ London for an initial 6-month contract. It is a hybrid model. We will consider flexible working arrangements for any of our roles and also offer workplace accommodations to ensure you have what you need to effectively deliver in your role.

Purpose of the role: The Business Analyst will support the delivery of the Framework Implementation workstream within the Financial Crime Enhancement Programme (FCEP) for the Life Business. This workstream focuses on embedding enhanced financial crime frameworks, including governance, risk appetite, policies, standards, and MI reporting, to strengthen the organisation's control environment and meet regulatory expectations. The role involves gathering and analysing requirements, designing solutions, and supporting implementation activities to ensure frameworks are effectively integrated across the business. The BA will work closely with Programme Managers, the Financial Crime team, Compliance, Risk, and Operations teams to translate strategic objectives into actionable deliverables.

What you'll do:

• Analyse current frameworks and identify gaps against regulatory requirements and best practice.
• Produce high-quality gap analysis outputs, business requirements documents and process maps.
• Support solution design and implementation planning for framework enhancements.
• Facilitate workshops with stakeholders to validate requirements and ensure alignment across 1LoD and 2LoD.
• Collaborate with Financial Crime team, Compliance, Risk, and Operations teams to embed frameworks into BAU processes.
• Provide input into programme governance packs and steering committee updates.
• Assist with planning and execution for framework-related changes.
• Maintain RAID for BA-related risks and issues.
• Support other FCEP workstreams as required to meet programme priorities.

The skills you'll need:

• Strong analytical skills with ability to interpret data and regulatory requirements.
• Expertise in requirements elicitation, process mapping, and solution design.
• Ability to manage ambiguity and conflicting stakeholder priorities.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills e.g. comfortable discussing Financial Crime requirements with senior business stakeholders.
• Comfortable working in Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid environments.
• Able to own deliverables with minimum supervision.
• Significant experience delivering across the full project lifecycle in regulatory or financial crime programmes.
• Experience conducting gap analysis between current (as-is) and target (to-be) states.
• Skilled in facilitating workshops and producing high-quality analysis artefacts.
• Experience and knowledge of Financial Services Life and pensions products and practices.

We have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture at M&G plc, underpinned by our policies and our employee-led networks who provide networking opportunities, advice and support for the diverse communities our colleagues represent. Regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, nationality, disability or long term condition, we are looking to attract, promote and retain exceptional people. We also welcome those who take part in military service and those returning from career breaks.