Role: Business Analyst Location: Onsite Abu Dhabi Duration: 9 months (Extendable)
Key Accountabilities:
Define requirements and perform quality assurance to streamline all payment processing capabilities of the Bank into one central hub.
Work as part of an Agile or Waterfall model to deliver high-quality business requirements and solutions for key stakeholders.
Engage with SMEs, end users, and vendors to identify, document, and validate requirements based on user journeys and user stories for implementing payment systems in banks.
Assist with the elaboration of user stories/requirements, supporting team members with their work where required.
Produce test scenarios, scripts, and other UAT documentation; identify and extract custom data for use in testing.
Execute UAT against previously defined and signed-off business requirements, user stories, or solution design.
Collate and report all test results, and provide walkthroughs to stakeholders.
Provide information to relevant parties to allow informed decisions to be made.
Highlight key issues and problems relating to product sign-off once the testing phase is complete.
Validate existing ‘to be’ processes as part of UAT execution, including revising and updating business processes according to business requirements.
Analyze and interpret business requirements, eliciting further information from Business Analysts and Business Systems Analysts when necessary.
Participate in and facilitate relevant Agile ceremonies and rituals: Backlog Refinement, Daily Stand-up, Iteration/Release Planning, Showcases/Sprint Review, and Retrospective.
Provide subject matter expertise in specific functional areas for assigned Scrum team.
Monitor and support post-production projects as part of BAU.
Requirements:
Minimum 8 years of experience, with at least 4 years of expertise in the payments domain.
Experience with Direct Debit System and Mandate Management System from both payer and beneficiary perspectives.
Experience with E-mandate initiation/management in corporate banking channels and integration with Direct Debit System.
Experience with corporate banking channels and workflows.
In-depth knowledge of Transaction Banking products and channels.
Previous experience in implementing overall payments in banks/financial institutions.
Experience with SWIFT messages like MT1XX, MT2XX, MT9XX, and PACS, CAMT for MX as per ISO 20022.
International market project experience.
Experience with core applications like Intellect, T24, SWIFT is an additional benefit.