Payments Business and Change Analyst

We have an opening for a 6 month rolling contract at one of our leading financial services clients based in London, inside IR35. This requires travel to Milton Keynes one day per week

The difference you’ll make:

• Utilising good business knowledge of payment flows for cross border and domestic payment types.
• Bringing an understanding of ISO20022 principles and Payments Industry landscape.
• Analysing key technical documentation provided by industry or suppliers eg Rulebooks, Product Specifications
• Working with internal stakeholders to identify and understand business requirements and translation into user stories to feed into build phases
• Working with external service suppliers to coordinate project delivery and ensure compliance with ring-fencing regulation, and providing internal stakeholders with key updates to be taken into project governance forums.
• Supporting architects on solution design.
• Managing risk at all times through the project lifecycle

What you’ll bring:

• 5+ years previous experience of working within a UK focused Payments environment and an understanding of the National Payments Vision programme and wider UK Payments landscape.
• Experience of working with and implementing change projects
• Experience of developing processes and procedures in regards to governance and change management principles
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills, comfortable challenging, constructively and influencing stakeholders across all divisions.
• Proven diagnostic, problem solving and analytical skills
• It would also be nice for you to have:
• Able to build rapport with project stakeholders and demonstrate influencing skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills. Uses all available channels and mechanisms to effectively to communicate to all employees across the bank
• Have experience of working in agile, including an awareness of agile tools and how to use them (such as JIRA and Confluence)