Business Systems Analyst
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Define scope and requirements for technology projects and information systems.
- Gather functional, non-functional, and data requirements from various stakeholders and document them accurately and logically.
- As a product owner, develop project vision for development team, manage product backlog, prioritize product needs, manage product roadmap, product backlog, oversee development, and support agile development teams.
Lead product functional design based on business and user knowledge. Translate product roadmap features into user stories and acceptance test criteria. Act as SME.
- Develop specifications for business processes, processing workflows or data flows.
- Verify the target solution and support the technology to ensure that the target system will meet the requirements.
- Test the solution to validate the project requirements and objectives.
- Develop effort estimation for requirements elicitation activities.
- Facilitate meeting / interviews and communicate requirements to sponsors, stakeholders and project team members.
- Investigate and assist in resolving data issues in risk systems.
- Help and support other team members.
REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, or Mathematics.
- At least 5 years experiences of business and systems analysis in the Banking, payments, wires, investment, financial services sectors
- At least 5 years in requirement management and planning, elicitation, facilitation and documentation.
- Good knowledge of relational data model and data manipulations using SQL.
- Thorough understanding of both waterfall and agile methodologies and approaches.
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills.
- Excellent in technical and business writing.
- Logical and analytical mindset.
- Strong Communication skills.
- Strong team player.
Experience with 2 or more of :
1) Experience and working knowledge of the payments processing life cycle and interactions among systems within a financial institution and with the SWIFT network.
2) Experience and working knowledge of high-value wire payments and the LVTS / Lynx platforms.
3) Experience and working knowledge of SWIFT messages (MT, MX) and data attributes used in payments messages.
4) Experience and working knowledge one or more of these functional areas : payments processing and operations (institutional transactions or credit cards transactions), KYC, anti-money laundering (transaction monitoring, compliance requirements) and back-office operations.
5) Experience with payment products from leading vendors such as Fiserv, Global Payments, First Data etc. is an asset
6) Knowledge of ISO20022 payment standards is an asset.