Senior Analyst - Banking & Financial Services

Job Title: Senior Analyst

Location City: Gurgaon/Bangalore

Industry: Research and Advisory Services

Company: Everest Group

About Everest Group

Confident decisions driven by deep expertise and tenacious research.

Everest Group is a research firm helping business leaders confidently navigate today's market challenges, driving maximized operational and financial performance and transformative

experiences.Our deep expertise and tenacious research focused on software, technology, business processes, and engineering through the lenses of talent, sustainability, and sourcing delivers precise and action-oriented guidance. For more information, visit www.everestgrp.com.

Job overview

The Financial Crime and Compliance (FCC) technology and services team focuses on current and emerging trends across the FCC lifecycle (e.g., sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, KYC/CTF, fraud prevention, case management, investigations, and regulatory change management) and assesses how these trends shape corresponding software products, platforms, data models, and operational ecosystems. This team advises enterprises, technology/platform providers, and service providers on how the FCC technology stack should evolve to meet tightening regulatory expectations, rising financial crime risks, and rapid advancements in analytics and automation. From our published research to custom decision support, the FCC team equips clients with fact-based insights to analyze market shifts, thematic issues, and provider capabilities across the FCC landscape.

As this is a fast-evolving domain, the Senior Analyst is expected to continuously track developments in the FCC industry in line with regulatory updates, evolving typologies, emerging risk vectors, and innovation across the technology and service provider ecosystem. This includes monitoring specialist FCC technology vendors, broader data and analytics platforms, digital workflow and case management solutions, and managed services/BPaaS providers that support end-to-end or modular FCC processes. The Senior Analyst will contribute to the research program by producing high-quality, original research and custom advisory projects. The role requires maintaining ongoing dialogue with senior executives at financial institutions and FCC technology and service providers on key challenges and opportunities and supporting their inquiries with relevant insights. The candidate will also deliver custom research engagements within the FCC technology domain and collaborate with technology product marketing, growth, and strategy practitioners to derive implications for the industry.

Key responsibilities

• Identify areas of research based on industry and client needs
• Problem solve and structure work to manage deliverables and timelines
• Contribute significantly to the published research agenda of the FCC practice
• Lead medium sized custom research engagements
• Actively augment domain expertise and build a PoV across FCC technology platform areas in various lines of businesses, via market tracking, and connecting with internal/external SMEs
• Support business development efforts through proposal writing and other initiatives
• Participate proactively in external market communication by responding to analyst inquiries, conducting executive conversations, and maintaining/growing long-term client relationships

Skills & activities

• Strong problem-solving skills and analytical capability, and high levels of intellectual curiosity
• Strong oral and written communication skills with attention to detail
• Project management skills: self-motivated, ability to multi-task, work under pressure and successfully manage deadlines
• Ability to interact and effectively work with others in a team environment. Long term desire to contribute to business growth and build a career as a business leader
• Ability to pick up new areas in FCC technology market and build expertise
• Desire to be in a non-hierarchical, entrepreneurial environment; comfort with ambiguity
• Proficient in Microsoft office (PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and Outlook)

Education & experience

• Bachelor's degree, MBA preferred (preferably from Tier-1 B-School)
• Experience in at least one product/platform used in FCC industry (such as Nice Actimize, Moody's, Quantexa, ComplyAdvantage or screening platforms such as LexisNexis Risk Solutions, LSEG World-Check, or Symphony AI ) is a must
• 2 to 4 years of work experience as one of the following:
• Business analyst leading configuration or implementation of FCC technology platforms as mentioned above
• Consultant advising BFS enterprises on product/platform selection exercises
• Product manager or client success manager for an FCC product/ platform provider
• Strong understanding of products/platforms used in banking and financial services and their features and functionalities
• History of excellence in academics, personal, and vocational achievements