Senior Business Analyst – Card Payments
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Senior Business Analyst – Card Payments
Role Type: 6-month contract
Seasoned BA with deep banking and card
payments expertise to deliver complex transformation and migration projects.
Covers issuing, acquiring, scheme integrations, and processing platforms. Works
across business and technology teams on requirements, impact assessments,
stakeholder engagement, regulatory alignment, and seamless system/process
integration.
Key responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end BA for card payment
migration projects
- Gather and document requirements with
business, product, compliance, and technical teams
- Conduct impact analysis across card
systems, payment platforms, and downstream integrations
- Produce business process models, user
stories & epics, functional/non-functional requirements, data mapping and
migration specs
- Support data migration strategy,
validation, and reconciliation
- Facilitate workshops and drive stakeholder
alignment
- Translate business requirements into
technical specifications
- Provide SME input on card lifecycle,
authorization flows, settlement, disputes, and compliance
- Support UAT planning, execution, defect
triage, and sign-off
- Identify and manage migration risks
- Contribute to Agile sprint planning and
backlog refinement.
Advantageous
- Major scheme experience (Visa, Mastercard)
- Payment switch/platform exposure (e.g.
Postilion, Base24)
- Data migration tools and reconciliation
techniques
- CBAP, PMI-PBA or equivalent
- PMBOK, PRINCE2 or structured delivery
frameworks
Requirements
- 8+ years’ BA experience in banking
- Strong hands-on payments experience
(issuing and/or acquiring)
- Proven migration or transformation project
delivery
- Solid understanding of core banking
systems, card management systems, payment processing platforms, and
regulatory/compliance frameworks
- Requirements elicitation, process
modelling, and documentation experience
- Strong stakeholder management across
business and IT
- Agile/Scrum experience
- FTI or IIBA certification (required)