Payments Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

What will you contribute?

Develop business requirements and collaborate in the translation of business requirements into technical requirements. Define system and functional requirements.

Responsibilities & Deliverables:

Your deliverables as a Payment Business Analyst will include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Creates recommendations and feature definition to address market opportunities within Essence Payments and Payment Manager.
• Gathers information from stakeholders to document functional, system, and/or data requirements.
• Perform product system impact analysis to determine affected functional areas of the application.
• Collaborates with team members to create detailed functional and/or technical specifications for complex development of new or modifications to existing applications or systems. May review requirements developed by other staff and provide guidance to improve requirement quality as necessary.
• Collaborates with team members in the development of specifications to create unit and integrated test cases.
• Assists in the analysis of results of unit and integration testing.
• Provides overall direction for product enhancements and general product development requirements.
• Serves as a liaison between internal and external stakeholders
• Collaborates with technical communications writer to develop proper and thorough documentation (internal and external) describing product changes as appropriate.
• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, and distinguish defects from enhancement requests.
• Identifies training needs and designs, and trains employees on product usage and new features/functionality.
• Provides direction to less skilled employees in business systems analysis concepts. May design and implement training plans.
• Identifies continuous improvement opportunities for Product Management processes.
• May act as a team lead for project work and facilitate meetings, webinars, and focus groups.
• Assist in release preparation duties including release notes, bulletins, and/or supporting documentation.

Required Experience:

• 5-7 years of business analysis or relevant experience in a financial payments context.
• Hands on experience specifying products to work with CSMs such as Swift, SEPA, UKFPS and others.
• Experience with ISO20022 message formats.
• Financial industry experience preferred.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office applications.
• Strong technical, analytical, and development skills including the ability to provide solutions to a variety of business problems of complex scope and complexity.
• Strong verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills required.
• Ability to mentor less experienced analysts.
• Advanced facilitation skills to conduct and facilitate focused requirements analysis discussions.
• Ability to work independently or within a team environment and handle multiple projects simultaneously.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Ability to organize and lead others in accomplishing project goals and objectives.
• Knowledge of the Software Development Lifecycle.
• Advanced knowledge of defining system and functional requirements.