Sr Consultant , Business Analysis

Job Summary

Individual will perform Business Analysis duties in line with the delivery of the Products within the Cash Services Change Portfolio.

Individual will work closely with the relevant Product Owner to ensure the correct level of upfront analysis is completed to inform the design of both the Operating and App Development Models. They will be responsible for supporting the Product Owner in writing features, taking the lead in writing Stories and maintaining good SDLC discipline.

Individual requires a forensic mind-set with a passion for understanding how things work. The ability to pull an overall complex picture together from stakeholder interviews, documentation and reviewing external market practice. Create documentation where none existing and provide metrics and evidence to help validate decisions and strategic direction

Major Duties

• Work collaboratively with the Scrum team, conducting analysis as required to document changes needed, writing User stories, taking the lead in writing Stories and maintaining good SDLC discipline.
• Support Product Owner, Solutions Architects, Testers and Developers to ensure that eventual outcome meets the desired success criteria
• Elaborate high-level business requirements & design provided by operations teams, product owner, business architects to a level of detail that is sufficient for developers to build a complete solution
• Analyses data to determine the logic of new business rules
• Create detailed acceptance criteria for each user story in the Given, When, Then format that, if met, will demonstrate that the development meets the business need
• Refine the user story with the scrum team ensuring that there is understanding of both the business need and detailed requirements
• Answer questions from developers and testers throughout the lifecycle of the story
• Conduct a detailed review of test results v. the acceptance criteria
• Write functional specifications where necessary so that end users understand how to use the new or enhanced functionality
• Actively participate in Agile ceremonies such as stand-up, backlog refinement, planning and retrospectives

Knowledge/Skills

• Market Knowledge of Cash Products, Global Payments and Industry Change, including Cash and liquidity management, credit and balance sheet finance reporting.
• In-depth knowledge of NT s current Cash Architecture and associated business processes.
• Previous experience working large scale, complex change initiatives
• Experience with working with Agile delivery methods, specifically Scaled Agile.
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
• Strong communication skills: written and verbal.
• Exposure and understanding of Project & Product Change methodologies
• Analytical skills to resolve and research enquiries and issues
• Strong planning, organizational and problem-solving skills

Experience

• 24 months as Consultant
• 5-10 years hands-on Payments and Banking functionality Business Analyst in Agile and Waterfall delivery methodology
• Track record of successful delivery of 2-3 full life-cycle changes in Banking and Financial industry in recent years
• SME level knowledge of FIN and ISO20022 messaging across SWIFT CBPR+, CHAPS,RITS and Target 2 payment networks, Cash and liquidity management, credit and balance sheet finance reporting.
• Worked on creation of functional led Target Operating Model
• Expert and up-to-date in usage of standard tools & processes viz. JIRA, AzureDevOps, and MS Office suite
• Processing and manipulation of data to achieve business objectives
• Basic SQL skills
• (Nice to have) Custody Product knowledge,

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