(Senior) Business Analyst – Payments (M/F)

Position Summary

Under direction from the Project or Product Managers, the (Senior) Business Analyst will gather, define and document business requirements, write use cases and functional specifications, create user interface specifications, and build user interface prototypes. The artifacts produced by the (Senior) Business Analyst will be used by the engineering and QA teams in order to build and test the functionality of products built upon the Bank Payment Hub or Open Payment Framework. The (Senior) Business Analyst assumes ownership of their deliverables and is accountable for the on-time production of his/her work according to the program methodology. The (Senior) Business Analyst is a high-visibility, customer facing, demanding position that directly impacts the quality and success of our products.

Attractive Features

• You will join a team staffed with talented experts in banking and finance;
• You will design and help develop a complex payments processing solution in a state of the art J2EE environment (WebSphere, Oracle 9i/10g, Sun Solaris);
• You will use the Clear2Pay developed frameworks (Open Payment Framework) in the solutions we deliver to our customers;
• Our current projects include a high profile payments authentication application, for one of the world's leading financial organizations;
• We offer a very innovative and challenging environment.

Essential Responsibilities

• Work with the customer to understand their detailed requirements (this work will partly be done at the customer's site);
• Map those requirements to the features of Clear2Pay's Product (The Bank Payment Hub, Open Payment Framework or Corporate Payment Hub), identifying any "gaps" between requirements and features;
• "Steer" the customer's requirements into directions that minimize or eliminate gaps;
• Document gaps in summary, and then, when funding for the closure of those gaps has been secured, produce detailed documents (use case, UI mock ups...) for the C2P development team to close the gaps;
• Present the detailed document to the customer for approval, and then to the C2P development team for development;
• Work with the C2P development team to answer any questions that come up during the development cycle;
• Work with the C2P QA team to oversee the writing and execution of test scripts to assure that the gaps were closed, and that the enhanced product works as specified;
• Work with the customer's test team during their Acceptance test cycle making sure our product and their changes perform as documented. (This work will partly be done at the customer' site);
• Deliver functional training to the customer and colleagues.

Other General Responsibilities

• Facilitate customer and internal meetings to solicit requirements, coordinate stakeholders and drive the processes that are needed to produce his/her deliverables;
• Write business requirements, use cases, user interface specifications and other supporting project materials (internal communications, beta test plans, etc.);
• Work with Project/Product Management to understand priorities, enhancement requests, defects and to resolve issues;
• Provide status reports to Project and Product Managers;
• Works with the Project Manager to define iteration criteria and to produce project deliverables;
• Contributes to the establishment of standards and procedures for use case and product development materials.

Travel

Since our customers are not only situated in the Benelux, travel within (but not always limited to) Europe might be a required element of this position.

Education, Experience and Other Qualifications

Education

• The position requires a Bachelor or Master’s degree in Finance or Banking with a strong affinity towards software development. A degree in a related field from an accredited university or equivalent in functional/years of experience could also be considered.

Experience

• Successfully as (Senior) Business Analyst in large projects in Banking and Finance;
• Experience with transaction based/end to end systems development primarily focused in the financial services industry;
• Achieved success in a consulting-like environment;
• 5+ years of experience in the cash management space, with emphasis on payments processing;
• Experience at a bank and a technology company;
• Successful track record and hands-on experience creating highly detailed functional analysis deliverables;
• Knowledgeable of format standards for payment processing (SWIFT, ISO) and implementation of systems to support such processing with a financial institution;
• Experience working in the Cash Management/International Payments and/or Retail Payment systems or Product Management groups at a large bank;
• Experience in a hardware or software company selling products into the Cash Management and International Payment areas of banks;
• Expert ability in eliciting, documenting and evaluating business requirements which involve multiple organizations, complex financial calculations and technical topics.
• Experience with Cash Management, payment processing, international payment processing is a must;
• A minimum of three years performing business or systems analysis is required;
• Undergraduate degree from an accredited university with strong academic performance in business or technology is required;
• Experience working in financial institutions or for an application service provider (ASP) is highly preferred.

Other Required Skills and Abilities

• Hands-on experience performing functional analysis, creating use cases, logical data models and business process diagrams;
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with experience making presentations to clients, managers, executives and/or technical staff is required;
• Must be detail-oriented and have the ability to understand and communicate business requirements and product functionality;
• Must have experience working with and in front of customers (a consulting background would be advantageous);
• Demonstrated ability to elicit information and resolve ambiguities when requirements are unclear or insufficient;
• Successful professional track record combined with experience working in high pressure, demanding environments;
• Demonstrated ability to work under strict deadlines and short turnaround timeframes;
• Exceptional teamwork skills in leading and collaborating with others.

Desired Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge of development methodologies such as RUP, Agile or other iterative processes is preferred;
• Prior technical experience with Payment processing software is a significant plus (for example: Intranet, BESS, MTS).

Personal Qualifications

• You take responsibility, you know to convert problems into solutions that you develop together with the team;
• You are a motivated person; Clear2Pay is responsible for high tech projects with a healthy time pressure. You and your team ensure the timely delivery of the solution with a high level of quality;
• You are a strong and stable personality with a decisive and assertive attitude;
• You want to deliver high quality products and are critical on (development) processes;
• You have a good sense of humor and are prepared to go the extra mile when required;
• You find satisfaction in challenging and complex projects and are proud of your work;
• Other keywords are: team player mentality, proactively and flexible;
• Communication, result-oriented, client-oriented;
• Proficient in problem solving;
• Positive and constructive minded.

Contact

Send your curriculum vitae, in English, with covering letter by mail or email
to the attention of:


Clear2Pay Nederland BV
t.a.v. Jennifer Homan
Burgemeester Stramanweg 105F
NL-1101 AA Amsterdam
The Netherlands
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Met referentie: C2P_BA_AMS