Senior Business Analyst – Card Payments

Sabenza IT & Recruitment; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Sabenza IT & Recruitment seeks a Senior Business Analyst with strong banking and card payments expertise to deliver complex transformation and migration initiatives. You will bridge business and tech teams across issuing, acquiring, scheme integrations and processing platforms, driving requirements, data mapping, and migration specs.

Ideal candidates bring 8+ years of BA experience in banking, hands-on payments knowledge, and certification (FTI/IIBA).

Qualifications

• 8+ years of BA experience in banking and card payments
• Strong hands-on payments experience (issuing and/or acquiring)
• Proven migration or transformation project delivery
• Solid understanding of core banking systems, card management systems, and payment processing platforms
• Requirements elicitation, process modelling, and documentation experience
• Strong stakeholder management across business and IT
• Agile/Scrum experience
• FTI or IIBA certification required

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end BA for card payment migration projects
• Gather and document requirements with business, product, compliance, and technical teams
• Conduct impact analysis across card systems, payment platforms, and downstream integrations
• Produce business process models, user stories & epics, functional/non-functional requirements, data mapping and migration specs
• Support data migration strategy, validation, and reconciliation
• Facilitate workshops and drive stakeholder alignment
• Translate business requirements into technical specifications
• Provide SME input on card lifecycle, authorization flows, settlement, disputes, and compliance
• Support UAT planning, execution, defect triage, and sign-off
• Identify and manage migration risks
• Contribute to Agile sprint planning and backlog refinement

Skills

Banking knowledge

Card payments

Agile/Scrum

Requirements elicitation

Process modelling

Documentation

Stakeholder management

Education

FTI or IIBA certification

Tools

Postilion

Base24

Job description

Senior Business Analyst – Card Payments

Role Type: 6-month contract

Seasoned BA with deep banking and card payments expertise to deliver complex transformation and migration projects. Covers issuing, acquiring, scheme integrations, and processing platforms. Works across business and technology teams on requirements, impact assessments, stakeholder engagement, regulatory alignment, and seamless system/process integration.

Key responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end BA for card payment migration projects
• Gather and document requirements with business, product, compliance, and technical teams
• Conduct impact analysis across card systems, payment platforms, and downstream integrations
• Produce business process models, user stories & epics, functional/non-functional requirements, data mapping and migration specs
• Support data migration strategy, validation, and reconciliation
• Facilitate workshops and drive stakeholder alignment
• Translate business requirements into technical specifications
• Provide SME input on card lifecycle, authorization flows, settlement, disputes, and compliance
• Support UAT planning, execution, defect triage, and sign-off
• Identify and manage migration risks
• Contribute to Agile sprint planning and backlog refinement

Advantageous

• Major scheme experience (Visa, Mastercard)
• Payment switch/platform exposure (e.g. Postilion, Base24)
• Data migration tools and reconciliation techniques
• CBAP, PMI-PBA or equivalent
• PMBOK, PRINCE2 or structured delivery frameworks

Requirements

• 8+ years’ BA experience in banking
• Strong hands-on payments experience (issuing and/or acquiring)
• Proven migration or transformation project delivery
• Solid understanding of core banking systems, card management systems, payment processing platforms, and regulatory/compliance frameworks
• Requirements elicitation, process modelling, and documentation experience
• Strong stakeholder management across business and IT
• Agile/Scrum experience
• FTI or IIBA certification (required)