Business Systems Analyst – Payments – IT

Business Systems Analyst – Payments

Typical Day in Role:
• Collaborate with a cross-functional feature team comprised of Scrum Master, Product Owner(s), UX designers, UI and full-stack developers and QA specialists.
o Partner with technology teams across IT&S (both Agile and Waterfall) as required.
• Assist Product Owner with the analysis of the business domain, creation and grooming of a healthy Product Backlog.
• Facilitate common understanding and consensus of epics/features within the team – lead cadences such as sketching and story mapping sessions to identify, write and refine user stories/specifications.
• Learn the various flows/functionality within the existing channels platform and their dependencies on upstream systems and applications.
• Stretch skills and competencies to serve cross-functional needs of the team and/or where the opportunity presents itself (E.g. Perform testing, lead Scrum cadences such as sprint reviews.)
• Identify and implement continuous improvements; evolve the business analysis practice in the ecosystem by experimenting with new techniques and tools. (E.g. Acceptance tests-driven specification).
• Conduct impact analyses

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
1) 10+ years as a BA/BSA, preferably within banking
2) 3+ years’ experience doing deep analysis work in a collaborative Agile software development lab (story mapping, spec and sketch)
3) 3+ years’ experience with JIRA and Confluence
4) 3+ years’ experience with data management and analysis
5) Demonstrated experience with whiteboarding / visualization skills and PowerPoint

Nice-To-Have Skills:
1) BSA Experience in payments domain an asset
2) Experience working under an Agile framework – Kanban and Scrum
3) System testing experience
4) Cross-domain exposure in banking & finance

Soft Skills Required:
• Excellent facilitation skills.
• Absolute team player
• Ability to work independently
• Keen appreciation for user-centric design and customer-driven product development.
• Ability to ask strong questions to help the team identify impediments and areas of improvement.
• Have an open and curious mind – embrace an ‘experiment and learn’ mindset.

Education:
Post-secondary or equivalent work experience

Best VS. Average Candidate:
Ideal candidate has strong BSA experience with facilitation, working with outside parties and vendors; has experience from payments domain / FI experience; good experience in an Agile environment; strong improvement mindset with attitude to want to grow and learn daily; able to work with little or no requirements and be strong at gathering their own analysis, work with minimal hand holding.