Senior Payments & Transactions Analyst (Remote)

Brandt Information Services; Tallahassee (FL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Vision and dental coverage

Flexible PTO

Paid holidays

401(k) with company match

Parental leave

Life and disability insurance

Professional development

Job summary

Brandt Information Services is hiring a Senior Business Analyst to drive clarity and execution across complex financial and transactional systems. This fully remote role works with distributed teams across Product, Engineering, Finance, and Operations to ensure payments are processed, reconciled, and reported accurately.

You’ll focus on discovering requirements, defining data and process flows, and aligning business and finance workflows to improve financial outcomes while supporting production

Qualifications

• 4–8+ years of experience as a Business Analyst in a technology-driven environment.
• Hands-on experience with transactional systems (authorization, settlement, reconciliation, gateways, ledger platforms).
• Strong understanding of transaction lifecycles, including authorization, settlement, reconciliation, and ledger posting.
• Experience working with financial reporting, auditability, and data integrity requirements.
• Proven ability to lead discovery and drive alignment across cross-functional teams.
• Strong analytical skills, including root-cause analysis and production issue investigation.
• Experience translating complex workflows into clear requirements and data/process models.
• Experience working in agile environments and with agile tooling (Scrum, Jira, Azure Dev Ops, Confluence, process modeling tools).
• Excellent communication skills and ability to influence in a remote, distributed team.
• Ability to operate independently, prioritize effectively, and own outcomes end-to-end.
• Experience with government systems, regulated environments, or high-audit financial systems is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery for payments, transaction lifecycles, ledger entries, and financial reporting.
• Translate business needs into clear, testable requirements, user stories, and process/data flows.
• Ensure requirements are complete and aligned before development begins—minimizing rework.
• Document workflows and data mappings across transaction and financial systems.
• Own requirements quality and completeness from discovery through delivery.
• Partner with Product Owner, Engineering Tech Lead, Finance, and Operations to align on scope, priorities, and outcomes.
• Drive backlog refinement and prioritization using business value, financial impact, and risk.
• Identify dependencies and risks early, especially those affecting reconciliation, reporting, or ledger accuracy.
• Actively participate in testing and validation to ensure implementation meet business requirements and financial expectations.
• Operate expertly in an agile scrum environment.
• Analyze and resolve issues in payment processing, transaction flows, and reporting pipelines.
• Partner with Finance and Stakeholders to validate ledger behavior, reconciliation processes, and reporting outputs.
• Identify and drive improvements in accuracy, traceability, and efficiency across financial workflows.
• Triage issues impacting transactions, payments, or reporting accuracy.
• Escalate high-impact issues affecting customers or financial data.

Skills

BA experience

Transactional systems

Transaction lifecycles

Financial reporting

Discovery leadership

Root-cause analysis

Requirements modeling

Jira

Azure DevOps

Confluence

Scrum

Communication

Self-management

Regulated environments

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

Confluence

Job description

Brandt Information Services is hiring a Senior Business Analyst to drive clarity and execution across complex financial and transactional systems. This fully remote role works with distributed teams across Product, Engineering, Finance, and Operations to ensure payments are processed, reconciled, and reported accurately.

You’ll focus on discovering requirements, defining data and process flows, and aligning business and finance workflows to improve financial outcomes while supporting production