Senior Business Analyst Card Payments

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)