Business Systems Analyst (Commercial & Investment Banking)

Techstra Solutions • Pittsburgh, PA

19h • Onsite

About The Position

The Payments Business Systems Analyst role supports and enhances high-value, high-volume payment processing platforms within our Commercial & Investment Banking organization. This role sits at the intersection of payments operations, technology, risk, and product, with a strong focus on end-to-end payment flows, messaging standards, and system integrations. The ideal candidate has deep payments domain knowledge and is comfortable working with complex, regulated systems supporting domestic and cross-border payments.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a Business Systems Analyst in financial services.
• Strong hands-on experience with payments systems in a banking environment.
• Solid understanding of: Wires, ACH, RTP, and cross-border payments
• Payment lifecycle, settlement, and liquidity concepts
• Hands-on experience with ISO 20022 and SWIFT MT/MX messaging.
• Proven ability to analyze complex system integrations and data flows.
• Strong documentation skills, including: Functional specifications Process and flow diagrams Field-level mapping documents
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Detail-oriented with a big-picture mindset
• Comfortable operating in high-pressure, time-sensitive environments
• Clear communicator and effective collaborator
• Ownership mindset with strong follow-through
• Payment's architectures (real-time vs. batch)
• APIs and message-based integrations
• Data validation, enrichment, and transformation concepts
• Reconciliation, exception handling, and monitoring
• Non-functional requirements: Throughput Latency Resiliency Auditability

Responsibilities

• Analyze and document end-to-end payment flows across channels, payment hubs, screening, posting, settlement, and reporting.
• Translate business and regulatory requirements into clear functional and non-functional requirements.
• Support modernization initiatives, including payment hub consolidation.
• Partner with architects and engineers to ensure solutions align with payments best practices.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed