Payments Business Analyst (IPF)

The IPF team is looking for an experienced Payments Business Analyst to work with the IPF Product Owner Architects Engineers Agile Delivery Leads Project Managers and our clients to determine requirements agree designs and to lead agile delivery teams to deliver simple solutions to complex business challenges.

The Icon Payments Framework (IPF) provides institutions with faster and more cost-effective access to payment solutions through an advanced and highly flexible payments specific platform which seamlessly integrates with our clients core and back-office banking applications.

About you

The successful candidate will have demonstrable payments knowledge of multiple payment schemes and have a strong background of business analysis in banks or other financial institutions. We are looking for self-starters who will readily take ownership and lead successful product delivery in an Agile environment. Additionally you should boast the following:

• Excellent analytical skills and a passion for the detail must demonstrate an ability to logically divide up a problem identify and resolve contradictions and ambiguities
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Extensive experience of the creation and elaboration of epics & user stories using industry best practices
• Demonstrable experience of multiple Payment Schemes such as SCT FPS FedNow etc.
• Good understanding of ISO20022 payment messages schemas and the usage of specific fields within those messages
• Experience of working in a Kanban or Scrum software development environment always focusing on delivery of business value
• Experience working alongside UX/UI designers and engineers user journey mapping personas wireframes/mock-ups and usability testing
• Knowledge of payment and technical operations include the payment lifecycle exceptions investigations repair and operational reporting
• Ability to manage & prioritise backlogs of work for delivery squads
• Ability to identify and manage dependencies between work items to ensure blockers and conflicts are avoided
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate clearly with engineers architects clients at various levels
• Experience with the use of UML techniques including Sequence Diagrams and Finite State Machines or other notations like BPMN using a modelling tool or similar

What do our Business Analysts do

• Requirements gathering analysis elaboration & refinement for either internal or client facing (external) delivery projects
• Working with architects and stakeholders to agree solution / feature designs
• Documenting of requirements in detailed user stories reflecting the agreed design and achieving our definition of ready
• Running kick off sessions with delivery teams to talk through the requirements and agreed design so that the squad understands the overall goal before starting a project
• Maintaining and continually prioritising the backlog of work to deliver maximum business value
• Perform signoff for all user stories
• Ensure our ways of working are adhered to
• Ensure delivered functionality is documented production ready appropriately tested and fit for purpose
• Run client or internal demos of functionality where necessary
• Identify and report risks and issues take steps to resolve / mitigate escalate where necessary
• Raise suggestions for new product functionality to the Product Owner where appropriate
• Attend all agile ceremonies

What do they Enjoy the Most

• Taking pride in their work and the product we are creating
• Fostering a great working environment supporting each other and enjoying ourselves
• Giving our customers the best solutions to meet their needs not necessarily the solution the client thought they wanted

Icon Solutions is a leading specialist provider of services and technology solutions that are simplifying banking transformation.

Icon is the past present and future of payments. With a proven record delivering mission-critical solutions for global institutions it is driving the next-generation of banking and payments architecture. Icon combines industry-leading domain experts services accelerator assets and technology that empower customers to solve problems fight complexity and embrace change.

Icon has applied its payments technical and integration expertise to create IPF: a low-code cloud-native open-source technology platform to accelerate payments transformation.

Icons clients include leading global banks such as BNP Paribas HSBC NatWest and Lloyds Banking Group.