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)

Skill richieste

Card payments (issuing and acquiring)Card scheme integrations (Visa, Mastercard)Payment switch/platforms (e.g., Postilion, Base24)Core banking and card management systems understandingRequirements elicitation and documentationBusiness process modelingWriting functional and non-functional specificationsData migration strategy, data mapping, validation and reconciliationImpact analysis across payment systems and downstream integrationsStakeholder management and facilitation (workshops, alignment)UAT planning, execution and defect triageAgile/Scrum delivery and backlog refinementRegulatory and compliance knowledge for card paymentsBusiness analysis certification (IIBA/CBAP/PMI-PBA/FTI)

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