Business Analyst (Onshore)

Volante Technologies

6d•Onsite

About The Position

The Business Analyst will drive end-to-end business analysis for payments solutions, working across real-time, clearing, and settlement systems. This role involves gathering and translating business requirements into functional specifications, message mappings, and user stories while ensuring alignment with ISO 20022 standards. The incumbent will collaborate closely with banks, product, and engineering teams to support delivery, testing, and production readiness across the payments lifecycle.

Requirements

Overall 10+ years of experience as a Business Analyst ideally in SaaS, digital transformation, or fintech/payments environments.
Experience across at least one payment type such as SWIFT, SEPA, RTGS, real-time payments (FPS, NPP, IMPS, NEFT) or local clearing systems.
Experience with payment rails like Fednow/RTP, Fedwire, ACH.
Strong experience in payments business analysis, including FRD/FSD creation, message mapping, ISO 20022 knowledge, and change management.
Solid understanding of the end-to-end payments lifecycle, from initiation through clearing and settlement.
Hands-on experience with interfaces and integrations (IRD) across banking systems.
Collaboration with business and technology teams.

Nice To Haves

Ability to quickly learn new technologies, tools and environments.
Strong articulation skills.
Hands-on experience in JIRA and Confluence.
Exposure to leading payments products/platforms (e.g., Finastra GPP, ACI UPF, FIS, Fiserv, IBM FTM, SWIFT, Vocalink).

Responsibilities

Drive end-to-end business analysis for payments solutions, working across real-time, clearing, and settlement systems.
Gather and translate business requirements into functional specifications, message mappings, and user stories.
Ensure alignment with ISO 20022 standards.
Collaborate closely with banks, product, and engineering teams to support delivery, testing, and production readiness across the payments lifecycle.
Communicate effectively to describe situations, articulate problems, scenarios, and results.
Write functional documents.
Work comfortably in a team environment, including collaboration with Architects and Development teams when needed.
Analyze situations and propose solutions.
Quickly learn new technologies, tools, and environments.
Support SIT, UAT, production (L2/L3), defect triage, user stories, and requirements traceability.