Payments BA

Job Description:
BA responsibilities:
•    With some guidance, create the vision and roadmap for the product to align with strategic direction for the business or technology domain.
•    Communicate the product vision and roadmap to stakeholders and technology teams.
•    Collaborate with stakeholders to understand and articulate their needs and problem statements.
•    Assess the scope of change and impact to technology and stakeholders
•    Liaise between the business units, technology teams, delivery and support teams to arrive at optimal solutions. 
•    Facilitate walkthroughs for requirement and solution assessments.
•    Collaborate with solution designers, developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyse trade-offs between usability and performance needs.
•    Create and prioritize work for teams and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
•    Create and prioritize epics in the product backlog.
•    Support refinement of scrum team stories to ensure there are enough “ready” stories in the backlog.
•    Review and accept epics/stories and make on-the-spot decisions regarding scope and requirements.
•    Work in partnership with technology teams to ensure that optimum value is obtained through technology and through an advanced understanding of the business.

BA Skills and Experience:
•    A strong Business Analyst track record is required, preferably with formal BA training.  Candidates should be able to demonstrate:
•    Ability to elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, business process flows, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis. 
•    Experienced in analysing and documenting requirements using a scaled agile methodology (Deliverables, Epics and Stories).
•    Proactively communicate and collaborate with customers and the scrum team to analyse information needs and functional requirements and facilitate the prioritising of requirements. 
•    Strong analytical and creative thinking skills. 
•    Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to manage various stakeholders. 
•    Good technical and architecture knowledge.
•    Experienced in critically evaluating information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into detailed requirements. 
•    Experienced in working on multiple initiatives simultaneously.

Strong Knowledge:
•    Experience in Banking with the following products would be ideal:
•    Payments, including SWIFT, ACH, CHAPS, Faster Payments, SEPA, TARGET2, ISO, Real Time Payments
•    Demand Deposit Accounting
•    Treasury and Cash Management Systems