Position: Financial Business Analyst
Company: DataArt
Category: Business Analyst
Experience required: 3y
English level: intermediate

CLIENT
Our client is US based company that builds platform for online payment processing.
We invite you to our company, not a project

PROJECT OVERVIEW
The project is in the development start stage. DataArt has handled the solution design stage where the roadmap, architecture, technical and project approach were developed.

The project aim is to build the Payment system from scratch which will consist of the backend services, API gateway for the connection from the client, 3rd party integrations, and 3 frontend portals for Merchants, Partners, and Administrators.

TEAM
The project team consists up to 30 people.

POSITION OVERVIEW
We are looking for a highly experienced Financial Business Analyst to work on creating the stories for the development team in close cooperation with the client stakeholders from financial services.
The candidate must be an effective communicator as he/she will have to establish direct connections between business users and the team (and develop trust). Core responsibilities include communication with business users and with the architect to develop specific solutions (both on the user and technical sides).

Responsibilities:
Organize effective collaboration between business owners and the project team
Analyze existing business processes and determine business and operational objectives
Elicit requirements
Analyze, document, and manage business requirements, stakeholder requirements, and functional and non-functional requirements through the full project lifecycle
Analyze and model data/data flows
Write user stories and acceptance criteria
Influence stakeholders to support business projects
Investigate 3rd parties documentation to elaborate functional requirements
Conduct UAT sessions

Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree or higher in business analysis, business administration, finance, economics, or related field
4+ years of experience as a business analyst
Solid theoretical knowledge of business analysis and requirements management
Payments experience, knowledge of essential terms and standards
Experience with Business Intelligence Reporting tools
Skills in analyzing and documenting requirements, requirements management, and modeling
Understanding of business processes in payments
Ability to translate business needs into software and operational requirements, document and analyze requirements and propose possible solutions
Knowledge of business analysis concepts and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies
Experience in facilitating effective interaction between the project team and the customer
Participation in planning, dispute resolution, and risk evaluation
Experience in querying and analyzing data in relational databases (MS SQL, Oracle, etc.)
Highly motivated, self-driven, and able to work well independently and in a team
Good written and verbal English communication skills

Nice to have:
Experience in writing specifications and drafting user interfaces
Experience in preparing requirements for internal/external data feeds mastering
Experience in diagramming using BPMN notation
Requirements management during the development cycle, knowledge of project life cycle models
Business processes modeling, knowledge of notations and methodologies
Understanding and using the techniques for identifying requirements
Ability to convert vague and unstructured information into distinct requirements
Familiarity with wireframing tools
Professional certification (CCBA, CBAP - IIBA, PMI-PBA - PMI, CPRE - IREB)