Description
Payments Business Analyst is required for a 6 month initial contract at a Financial Services/payments organisation based in London. They require a Senior Business Analyst with a solid background in the Payments industry, specifically UK Payments. As the Senior Business Analyst you will be working on a large scale payments project, it is a hands on BA role performing business level process analysis using the accepted tools and methodologies as well as preparing functional specifications. You will also work alongside the development teams to provide iterative analysis of the detailed specifications and to provide a link between the business and the development teams.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the analysis phase of a project with one or more BA's aligned to them to support its delivery
- Build and maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Collecting, understanding, and communicating the business requirements for the project, and translating these into functional specifications and detailed test analysis that can be utilised by the solution development teams
- Collaborate with technical and solution architects to define solutions
- Analyse and document business processes
- Document the results of business analysis and obtain sign-off from client on the specifications
- Design, specify and execute test scenarios and test scripts
- Analysis, preparation and management of change requests in relation to the project plans to ensure agreed deadlines are met
- Work with the Project Manager to allocate and prioritise analysis work to BA's within project teams
- Support and develop BA's working within your project team
Experience:
- Demonstrated evidence of analysing and documenting complex business processes and system flows
- Demonstrated experience writing requirements specifications for Information Systems within the payments environment
- Demonstrates flexibility and adaptability to work at all levels across projects
- Working knowledge of the payment industry
- Working knowledge of SWIFT, ISO 20022, low-value and high-value such as SEPA, SWIFT, CHIPS, BACS etc
- End to end experience of the project life cycle