FX Business Analyst

Worldpay; City Of London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading payments company based in the UK is seeking an FX Product Analyst to contribute to its mission of simplifying FX capabilities across payment types. The ideal candidate will have 3 to 7 years' experience as a Product Analyst or Owner and a Bachelor's degree. Responsibilities include translating product strategy into user stories, managing development backlogs, and applying Agile methodologies. This role requires strong negotiation, analytical, and communication skills, with a focus on delivering innovative FX products.

Qualifications

• 3 to 7 years FX Product Analyst / FX Product Owner / FX Business Analyst experience/knowledge.
• Certified Scrum Product Owner professional certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Understand product strategy, market, industry, and client goals.
• Convert business problem statements into user stories.
• Manage backlog of user stories for one or more products.
• Communicate feedback on development achievements.

Skills

Knowledge of acquiring and/or payments industry

Knowledge of FX products and pricing / risk management systems

Strong negotiation skills

Analytical skills

Excellent verbal communication

Strong problem-solving skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Are you ready to unleash your full potential? We're looking for people who are passionate about FX and payments to help chart Worldpay's path to being the largest and most-loved payments company in the world. About the team The Merchant Settlements & FX (Foreign Exchange) Product Domain is responsible for all aspects of the Worldpay's core financial relationship with its merchants, and we are on a mission to make that experience simpler and more flexible. Within MS&FX, the FX Product team is responsible for FX capabilities across all payment types, client categories, segments and regions. It is a high-profile, commercially focussed team managing some of Worldpay's most commercially successful products, delivering for a wide range of global super brands. We're revolutionising our FX products and systems, creating new to market FX propositions for cross-border payments that will help new and existing clients to serve their customers. There's lots to do, and we're moving quickly, so you'll have a crucial role, working directly with the product leads to translate features and strategy into user stories and work with the engineering teams to deliver on our vision.

General Duties & Responsibilities

• Understands product strategy, market, industry, and client goals.
• Works with stakeholders to understand business problem statements and convert them into user stories.
• Articulates product vision and user stories in a manner clearly understandable by development teams.
• Manages backlog of user stories for one or more products.
• Establishes user story acceptance criteria, accepts user stories, refines stories with Scrum teams.
• Reviews and provides feedback on test plans to ensure application changes meet acceptance criteria.
• Creates Sprint Release Plans with input from development teams.
• Monitors the development progress and provides updates to stakeholders, as requested.
• Applies Agile methods and processes to promote a disciplined project management process that encourages frequent inspection and adaptation of ongoing work product.
• Leads planning and review meetings to communicate feedback on development achievements.
• Conducts structured analysis of business problems, identifies root causes, and presents findings with actionable solution options to stakeholders.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree and 3 to 7 years FX Product Analyst / FX Product Owner / FX Business Analyst experience/knowledge. The Certified Scrum Product Owner professional certification is preferred but not.

General Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Knowledge of acquiring and/or payments industry
• Knowledge of FX products and pricing / risk management systems
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) experience and systems development environment experience are preferred
• Strong negotiation, organization, management, analytical and people skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to technical and non-technical audiences of various levels in the organization (e.g., executive, management, individual contributors)
• Positive outlook, strong work ethic, and responsive to internal and external clients and contacts
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with the ability to assess complex issues and propose practical solutions.