The PCM Business Analyst is expected to have experience in some of the following functional areas:
- Payments engine and clearing (At least one):
- Payment engines
- SWIFT (MT/MX Messages), ISO20022
- Regulatory Clearing & Settlement applications
- Instant Payments
- Compliance Frameworks: Anti‑Money‑Laundering (AML), Sanctions Screening (Optional)
- Core banking applications (Optional)
- Treasury management (Optional)
The role involves collaborating with various stakeholders mainly business, operations and global teams to ensure that our technologies align with regulatory standards and effectively addresses their challenges. The candidate should have solid experience in gathering requirements.
Responsibilities
- Understand what the business does and how it does it
- To collect, understand, and transmit the business or functional support requirements for the project/request/incident, and to translate these into functional specifications and detailed test plans
- Collaborate with stakeholders to identify business requirements related to banking applications within the organizations
- To analyse and document business processes and to involve end users in all the project/request/incident resolution phases
- To design the business cases hand by hand with users and required central teams covering the complete cycle of operations and IT processes
- To document workflows and results of business analysis and obtain sign-off from client on the specifications.
- To document the systems and functional processes making it easy for the new comers to understand the system
- To close communications with stakeholders through well‑structured functional specifications and detailed test plans
- To closely liaise with PCM architecture teams to design the solution and explain it to all stakeholders
- Ensure a smooth integration and implementation of new standards following the standard methodologies
- To support the functionalities of all the banking production modules related to all business activities
- Provide both functional and technical support to users in the region
- To support the functional operations of all standard and non-standard application systems according to the business needs of the organization
- To plan, execute, monitor, control and manage IT projects
Technical & Behavioral Competencies
Mandatory
- The candidate should have strong functional and excellent communication skills
- Good understanding of Payments Domain
- Knowledge of Domestic payments of MEA region would be a plus
- Knowledge of ISO 20022 XML formats for payment processing
- Experience with SQL, Oracle RDBMS
- Ability to collaborate closely with technical teams to design both technical and procedural solutions
Good to Have
- Background in software development would be considered a plus
Transversal Skills
- Analytical Ability
- Ability to understand, explain and support change
- Ability to anticipate business / strategic evolution
- Ability to develop others & improve their skills
- Ability to develop and leverage networks
Behavioral Skills
- Ability to collaborate / Teamwork
- Decision Making
- Creativity & Innovation / Problem solving
Education Level
Bachelor's degree or equivalent
Location
Mumbai, Chennai