Business Systems Analyst - Payments

Business Systems Analyst - Payments

Our client is a Toronto-based IT consulting boutique that strives for excellence in customer service and delivery in financial services and fintech industry.
Seeking exceptional software engineering candidates, someone who has successfully delivered large complex projects for Canadian or US banks.
They focus on technology advisory, cloud computing, integration solutions, and enterprise big data and analytics.
With a team of highly knowledgeable business and technical experts, we provide strategic, mission critical solutions to our clients.

Perm / FT role.
Salary: Market rate + benefits and performance bonus
Hybrid work environment - mix of home, office and client site - generally 2-3 days in-office/week
Company location: Downtown Toronto

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, 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.
• 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
• Minimum Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, or Mathematics.
• At least 5 years experiences of business and systems analysis in the Banking and Capital Markets areas.
• At least 5 years in requirement management and planning, elicitation, facilitation and documentation.
• 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.

Key Skiils:
1- Experience with high-value payments platforms, preferably FIS OPF (Open Payment Framework), SWIFT/Lynx/LVTS based on real time
2- Experience with next generation ACH payments solution
3- Experience with payment products from leading vendors such as Fiserv, Global Payments, First Data etc. an asset
4- Knowledge of ISO20022 payment standards
5- Experience working with MT/MX messaging
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