About ClearBank
ClearBank is the UK’s first purpose-built clearing bank in over 250 years. We’re transforming the banking infrastructure landscape with a cloud-native platform that enables fintech’s, banks, and regulated institutions to deliver real-time, secure, and scalable financial services.
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Business Analyst (BA), ideally with Financial Crime experience, to initially support the design, enhancement, and optimisation of Financial Crime Products, starting with KYC (Know Your Customer), KYB (Know Your Business), and ongoing monitoring capabilities, while also contributing to ClearBank’s expanding Digital Assets initiatives and other Financial Crime priorities.
This role sits at the intersection of regulatory compliance, operational efficiency, product development, and digital transformation, supporting both emerging propositions) and strategic programmes.
The BA will work closely with Product, Engineering, Financial Crime, Compliance, and Digital Assets teams to ensure ClearBank delivers robust, scalable, and regulatoryaligned controls.
Key Responsibilities
Requirements Gathering & Analysis
Capture and refine business requirements initially for new Financial Crime products, e.g. KYC/B & Digital Assets
Map target-state processes across different business segments, products and services
Design process improvements that reduce manual intervention and increase straight-through processing
Collaborate with product managers to shape capabilities required by new propositions
Stakeholder Engagement
Engage cross-functional teams (Product, Engineering, Compliance, Digital Assets, Billing, Vendor Management) to align on solution design.
Liaise with thirdparty providers to ensure functional and technical alignment.
Documentation & Quality Assurance
Produce high-quality artefacts—business requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, workflows, data dictionaries, process maps, billing logic, etc.
Support UAT planning, execution, and defect triage for new features.
Essential Skills & Experience
Demonstrable BA toolkit: requirements elicitation, process mapping, user stories, gap analysis.
Ability to work with crossfunctional teams including Product, Engineering, Risk, Compliance, and External Vendors.
Strong analytical mindset with the ability to break down complexity.
Excellent written and verbal communication, with an emphasis on clarity and precision.
Desirable
Experience in KYC, KYB, AML, Financial Crime or Regulatory Change within a bank or fintech.
A little bit more about us!
ClearBank is Where You Can belong:
At ClearBank we think about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) a lot. Not because we think we should. But because we know we should – how else can we build a happy workforce and be successful as a business. We’re committed to making sure our teams reflect society. And we put energy and effort into making this a place where everyone feels at home, where they’re given the trust and encouragement to do their very best work. Here are some of the things we’re most proud of:
42% of our senior management roles are held by women
Our enhanced family leave policies
Launching our partnership with Code First Girls
Increasing awareness of neurodiversity in the workplace through our partnership with the Inclusive Group
Our hiring process and what you can expect:
Application: a member of our talent acquisition team will review your application against the key requirements for the role and let you know within two weeks whether you’re moving forward to the next stage;
Screening: You’ll spend 30-45 minutes speaking to one of our recruiters learning more about the role and ClearBank, and we’ll get it know more about you, your experience and how your skills align with the role (this will be via phone or Teams video call). You can expect to hear back from us within seven days following this meeting (if things are taking longer than expected, we’ll let you know that too);
First Interview: You’ll spend one hour with a member of our hiring team focusing on your skills, competencies and your ways of working at the same time we’ll give you time to ask more questions about the role, the team and learn more about the ClearBank culture. This will be via Teams.
Second Interview: This will be a competency-based interview with one or more members of our team.
Final Stage: You will have a final meeting with the Head of Department. This will be around 45-60 minutes.
Offer: Congratulations! Get ready to transform banking forever!
Our commitment to you as a candidate:
We will always try our best to get back to you within seven days of your interview whether you’ve been successful or not and provide you with feedback. Sometimes things take a little longer, so we may not have a decision to share but we will get it touch to let you know we need a little more time.
We’re unable to provide specific individual feedback at the application or screening stage but know that your application was reviewed and considered carefully.
We wish you the best of luck with your application and maybe we’ll be celebrating your new role at ClearBank soon!
Equal Opportunities
ClearBank is committed to ensuring equal opportunities throughout every stage of the recruitment process. ClearBank recognises that diversity is vital to the long-term success of the business in the communities and markets in which it operates. ClearBank is also a firm believer that an inclusive culture fosters greater employee engagement and collaboration.
ClearBank strives for diversity and inclusion of all forms, including (but not limited to): gender, age, educational and professional background, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief and sexual orientation.
As part of the Company’s commitment to equal employment opportunity, we provide reasonable adjustments, to candidates during the recruitment process, including to individuals with disabilities. We want to create a safe space that welcomes everyone so please let us know how we can accommodate you. In case you have any accessibility requirements you can share that with our Talent Acquisition team prior to your interview stage, if applicable.
The legal bit
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