Business Analyst

$90,000 - $120,000/Yr

K2 Integrity - Washington, DC

Full-time - Mid Level

Washington, DC

About the position

K2 Integrity is seeking a dynamic and experienced Business Analyst to enhance its financial crimes compliance program. This role focuses on the development of a banking payments risk platform that integrates data, detects risks, screens customers, and supports analyst workflows and business reporting. The Business Analyst will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the platform aligns with client needs and business objectives, driving business requirements to fulfill the overall product vision.

Responsibilities

• Leverage bank payments domain expertise to articulate, gather, rationalize, and document business requirements.
• Analyze business problems, ensuring all contexts are understood and integrated into actionable insights.
• Create business use cases, user personas, and user stories.
• Document business models, workflows, and processes.
• Capture and analyze business user feedback to measure and report customer delight.
• Support internal/external documentation.
• Prioritize features and enhancements based on customer feedback and market awareness.
• Work closely with both internal and external teams to support delivery of high-quality products within our markets.
• Facilitate communication between teams and ensure alignment on goals and timelines.
• Monitor industry trends, competitive landscapes, and emerging technologies to identify opportunities for innovation and improvement.
• Support the development of key performance indicators (KPIs) for the platform and track performance against these metrics, using data to drive decision-making and iterate on the product.
• Support product-related functional inquiries.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or master's degree.
• 8-10 years of business analyst experience within commercial banking payments processing units.
• Expert-level knowledge of bank payment processing operations and technologies, such as SWIFT, mobile payments, peer-to-peer transfers, and online payment platforms.
• Strong knowledge of unique regulatory and operational requirements of Money Service Businesses, including licensing, reporting, and compliance obligations.
• Proven ability to analyze data and use insights to drive product decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional teams and manage multiple stakeholders.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to think strategically and execute methodically.
• Strong communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic, and collaborative team environment.
• Experience with tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence preferred.
• Knowledge of financial crimes compliance concepts and the technology commonly utilized to support KYC, transaction monitoring, and sanctions screening inclusive of data integration, architecture, APIs, UI/UX, workflow management, reporting, and integration strategies preferred.
• Knowledge of product management frameworks and best practices preferred.
• CAMS or similar certification preferred.

Benefits

• Competitive salary ranging from $90,000 to $120,000.