Payments Specialist Business Analyst

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This role is based in the United Kingdom and as such all normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom.

Job Description
Join us as a Payments Specialist Business Analyst

  • Take on a critical role supporting the ongoing payments transformation programme as part of the Central Change Transformation Team
  • You\'ll be working in a vibrant, diverse and inclusive forward looking team and helping us to shape the future of our business
  • It\'s a great chance to hit the ground running, take advantage of our development opportunities, and advance your career while making a difference to our customers and colleagues

What you\'ll do

In your new role, you\'ll be supporting the analysis of complex cross franchise and pan group requirements, as part of the wider payments transformation programme. You\'ll be capturing, validating and documenting business and system requirements and making sure that they are in line with key strategic principles. In the course of your work, we\'ll also look to you to build, manage and maintain a positive working relationship with stakeholders and third party suppliers across multiple franchises and functions.

You\'ll also:

  • Create and maintain documentation, as well as support controls and quality assurance for key stakeholders and suppliers
  • Identify and support cut-over and implementation tasks
  • Trace and link business requirements to future state design
  • Create and execute test scenarios and test scripts at various stages of the project in order to validate the solution design
  • Facilitate user acceptance testing and support business users in executing this

The skills you\'ll need

You\'ll need to hold an appropriate business analyst certification, such as BCS, BAX, CPRE and CBAP. Additionally, you\'ll have a highly analytical mindset, with strong organisational skills and the ability to prioritise your work.

Payment experience for this role is essential, such as SWIFT, CHAPS, SEPA, Faster Payments or ISO20022. Implementation of new payments products or payments systems and migration to ISO20022 standards would be ideal.

You\'ll also need:

  • Experience of applying business analysis tools and techniques
  • A background of delivering business analysis in a banking, technology or IT function
  • Agile methodology and delivery experience
  • Strong stakeholder management skills
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