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We are supporting a major financial services programme and are looking for an experienced Business Analyst with strong Payments and Capital Markets experience to join a high-performing delivery team.
This role is ideal for a Business Analyst who has worked across trade settlement, payments, clearing, custody or post-trade environments and is comfortable working with both business and technology stakeholders.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Proven Business Analysis experience within Financial Services
- Strong Payments and/or Capital Markets background
- Requirements gathering and documentation
- BRDs, FRDs and User Stories
- Process mapping (As-Is/To-Be)
- Trade life cycle knowledge (T+0, T+1, T+2)
- Clearing and settlement processes
- Payment workflows and cash movement
- Stakeholder management across business and technology teams
- SIT and UAT support
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Knowledge Required
- Trade settlement payments
- Margin payments
- Corporate actions
- Delivery vs Payment (DvP)
- Settlement and reconciliation processes
- RTGS and Net Settlement
- SWIFT MT messages (MT103, MT202 etc.)
- ISO 20022/MX messaging
- Nostro/Vostro accounts
- Liquidity management
- CCP and CSD environments
Desirable Skills
- SQL and data analysis
- API integrations
- SWIFT interfaces
- Payment engines
- BPMN, Visio or process modelling tools
- Investment Banking or Capital Markets experience
Responsibilities
- Gather and analyse business requirements
- Produce high-quality business and functional documentation
- Map end-to-end payment and settlement processes
- Define functional specifications and payment workflows
- Support system, integration and user acceptance testing
- Work closely with business users, operations, technology teams and external stakeholders
- Support delivery of payment and settlement-related change initiatives