The successful candidate will have demonstrable payments knowledge of multiple payment schemes and have a strong background of business analysis in banks or other financial institutions. We are looking for self-starters, who will readily take ownership and lead successful product delivery in an Agile environment. Additionally, you should boast the following:
• Excellent analytical skills and a passion for the detail –must demonstrate an ability to logically divide up a problem, identify and resolve contradictions and ambiguities
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Extensive experience of the creation and elaboration of epics & user stories using industry best practices
• Demonstrable experience of multiple Payment Schemes, such as, SCT Inst, SEPA, FPS, RTGS etc.
• In-depth understanding of ISO20022 payment messages, schemas and the usage of specific fields within those messages
• Experience of working in a Kanban or Scrum software development environment, always focusing on delivery of business value
• Ability to manage & prioritise backlogs of work for delivery squads
• Ability to identify and manage dependencies between work items to ensure blockers and conflicts are avoided
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate clearly with engineers, architects, clients at various levels
• Proven track record of working in Agile delivery environments
• Experience with the use of UML diagrams including Sequence Diagrams and State Diagrams using a modelling tool or similar
What do our Payments Business Analysts do?
• Requirements gathering, analysis, elaboration & refinement – for either internal or client facing (external) delivery projects
• Working with architects and stakeholders to agree solution / feature designs
• Documenting of requirements in detailed user stories reflecting the agreed design and achieving our definition of ready
• Running kick off sessions with delivery teams to talk through the requirements and agreed design so that the squad understands the overall goal before starting a project
• Maintaining and continually prioritising the backlog of work to deliver maximum business value
• Perform signoff for all user stories
• Ensure our ways of workingare adhered to
• Ensure delivered functionality is documented, production ready, appropriately tested and fit for purpose
• Run client or internal demos of functionality where necessary
• Identify and report risks and issues, take steps to resolve / mitigate, escalate where necessary
• Raise suggestions for new product functionality to the Product Owner where appropriate