Senior Business Analyst with Payments experience

Boardroom Appointments; South Africa; Hybrid; ZAR 700,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency in South Africa is searching for a Senior Business Analyst with Payments experience to develop and implement payment solutions. The role involves managing and delivering payment projects, conducting analysis, and collaborating with stakeholders. Candidates should have 5-8 years of experience and relevant IT qualifications, particularly in business analysis. This position offers an exciting opportunity to lead essential payment projects in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of BA experience, managing multiple IT Projects and exposure to complex projects.
• Proficient in conducting strategy analysis and solution evaluation.
• Experience in leading program/squad ceremonies.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver end-to-end Payment Solutions.
• Conduct requirements analysis and design definition.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to refine and prioritize the product backlog.

Skills

Payment analysis experience

Requirements analysis

Agile concepts

Business analysis techniques

Education

IT qualification, Certificate in BA endorsed by IIBA

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

About the job Senior Business Analyst with Payments experience

Key purpose:
As a Senior Business Analyst with Payments experience, you will work within the strategic business area to help develop and implement payment solutions. You'll be responsible for developing and delivering end-to-end Payment Solutions including projects such as: Integrating third-party systems; Interfacing with 3rd parties' back-office systems; Developing new payment products; Migrating legacy processes or modules into the new environment; Integration of SWIFT transfers (if required); Project Management & Control.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Payment analysis experience (payments, settling, SWIFT, etc)
• Conduct iterative and adaptive planning and monitoring tasks to estimate, organize and coordinate the BA efforts on large/complex enterprise initiatives
• Conduct elicitation and collaboration tasks to obtain information from stakeholders.
• Conduct requirements analysis and design definition to structure, organize, specify and model requirements and designs.
• Conduct Requirements Life Cycle Management tasks to manage and maintain requirements and design information from inception to retirement
• Conduct strategy analysis to define the future and transition states needed to address the business need, the work required to define that need and the scope of the solution
• Conduct Solution Evaluation to assess the performance of and value delivered by a solution, and eliminate barriers/constraints that prevent the full realization of the value
• Execute according to IIBA best practices, agile product delivery and lean principles based on the clients delivery approach as per the BA methods, frameworks, standards, tools, techniques, competencies and practices
• Analyse and document requirements based on changes to users, interfaces, processes, data flows, constraints, environments, and non-functional requirements
• Understand the portfolio's strategic themes, product roadmap, vision, KPIs and metrics, and align requirements accordingly.
• Understand all elements of the program and team backlog and align requirements accordingly.
• Explore and articulate the opportunity/problem to be solved and identify stakeholder wants and needs and participate to define the proposed solution.
• Use visual diagrams and collaborative games to model scope, interfaces, story context, data flows, processes, retrospectives and dependencies across projects.
• Decompose and document epics, features, themes, hypothesis statements, PI objectives and user stories by identifying gaps, missing stories and acceptance criteria, scenario development and all requirement categories.
• Own decomposition of portfolio epics, features, elicitation, analysis, story writing and acceptance criteria writing throughout the requirements value chain.
• Collaborate/co-create process and capability alignment by pairing with the PE and Business Architect
• Support the team in working on impediments and spikes and enabler epics, enabler stories, and synthesise the data to articulate requirements
• Work with development/QA to identify test cases/scenarios, conduct user acceptance testing and train the trainer/user and support change management commercialisation
• Conduct/participate in Backlog Refinement, prioritisation, WSJF, and increment planning and drive
• Devops and Built-in quality principles
• Analyse/document data requirements and model data flows through all seven product dimensions on a solution/program level by pairing with BDMs
• Foster stakeholder relationships and engagement for discovery and delivery, backlog refinement, dependencies and enterprise delivery up to senior level
• Conduct system demos and contribute to I&A and offer and implement suggestions for improvement
• Actively participate and lead program/squad ceremonies by pairing with Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, Product Owners
• Drive minimum viable thinking, continuous deployment and integration
• Ensure early remediation by reducing waste, reworking, identifying risks, issues

Qualifications and experience:

• IT qualification, Certificate in BA endorsed by IIBA, Safe Certification
• IIBA endorsed
• 5 - 8 years of BA experience, managing multiple IT Projects and exposure to complex projects, business exposure, industry exposure. Guiding others on how to effectively use common techniques.
• Demonstrate these skilled proficiency descriptors
• Research Methodology
• BA Body Of Knowledge
• Business writing skills
• Agile Concepts
• Data and Business Analysis
• Process Engineering Skills
• Global business analysis Trend
• Business Analysis Discipline, Techniques and Practices
• Microsoft Office Product