Business Analyst

Fascinated by the future and captivated by technology? Smart, driven and want to make a difference in the world? You will fit right in.

By joining one of our teams at Visa Payments Limited, a division of Visa Inc since 2019, you’ll have an opportunity to shape the payments experience globally. Being part of Visa, the world’s leader in digital payments technology, our mission is to connect the world through the most creative, reliable and secure payment network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive.

Visa Payments Limited is a financial technology business that provides cross-border payment processing services to banks and payments businesses across six continents through its global network.

Individuality fuels our brand and our global team – we are proud that we are a talented team of 18,000 individuals with unique backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. Therefore, we understand that you are much more than your day job. We encourage quality of life both within and outside of the office, and whether it is taking advantage of agile work schedules or our wellness programmes, Visa Payments Limited and Visa Inc. respects and encourages meaningful work/life balance for everyone.

If you think you could support the Visa family by joining Visa Payments Limited as a Operations Analyst, we want to hear from you.

You're an individual. We're the team for you. Together, let's transform the way the world pays.

The Network Accounts Product team are responsible for executing key activities related to business analysis, design and integration of network partners. This is a Business Analyst role with a technical leaning. The key responsibilities will be for defining the solution capabilities and services that we offer, analysing, agreeing and documenting the data fields and payment related message flows and completing key integration activities for complex and critical network partners. This will include interpreting business requirements, aligning to industry standards and identifying improvements to our integration platform as well as supporting delivery teams.

This may include;

• Ability to be a SME for payment message definitions and mappings.
• Detailed data field definitions and data mapping specifications.
• Defining and designing data flows and mapping that conform to industry standards, such as ISO 20022.
• Working with network partners and internal stakeholders to gather, document and analyse their requirements.
• Support with assessment of complex and critical network partners to validate capabilities align with Visa Payment Limited minimum standards.
• Completing and supporting key integration activities outlined in the implementation handbook.
• Define user stories for integrations based on specific network partner considerations, creating and leveraging templates to standardise user story sets as far as possible.
• Presenting complex and critical network feature demos to relevant Visa Payment Limited stakeholders during sprint demos.
• Leading best practice analysis of payment message specifications and payment data mapping across multiple payment schemes and financial institutions.
• Driving the standardisation of business and integration analysis across multiple markets and countries.
• Participating in agile / scaled agile ceremonies such as sprint planning and daily stand-ups.
• Ensuring the product meets business needs - Collaborate with the scrum team during build to ensure the solution meets business needs.
• Producing key documents required for standardised integrations, including connectivity, field mapping, and new Network Product components where relevant.
• Attending calls with Network Partners, Operations and other relevant Stakeholders within the integration chain to discuss and resolve any gaps or issues identified within the analysis to minimise deviations against minimum standards.
• Support product owners with backlog refinement by ensuring Network Product user stories are appropriately captured.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

• Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of international and domestic payments, European payment standards, scheme rules, payment processing technologies and regulations.
• Previous experience in Business / Systems Analysis or Quality Assurance.
• Demonstrable experience in the payments industry, specifically in cross border payments, with a good understanding of MyStandards, SWIFT (MT and MX) and ISO20022, message standards, ACH payments, global instant payments schemes, including UK FPS, SEPA Instant, Singapore FAST etc.
• Proven experience working in an Agile methodology environment (e.g. SCRUM, DSDM, Lean/Kanban) and ideally scaled agile methodology.
• Best practice in writing user stories.
• Good technical understanding of web applications and APIs including swagger, xml, JSON, schemas, fixed width formats and other message formats/syntax.
• Experience with JIRA and Confluence.
• Experience with data mapping tools (ideally Trace Transformer or Swift
• Ability to define best practices for payments analysis. message definitions, data mapping and writing test cases for complex payment scenarios.
• Business Analyst professional certification (Desirable)
• Certified scrum qualifications (Desirable)

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.