SEPA payments Business Analyst
Posted 2 days ago by Robert Walters
Negotiable
Inside
Hybrid
City Of London, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The SEPA Payments Business Analyst role at JP Morgan in London involves collaborating within the Payments technology team to develop a new internal payments platform. The position requires a solution-oriented individual with expertise in EU payment schemes, particularly SEPA, to enhance payment capabilities and ensure compliance with regulations. The role is hybrid, initially requiring three days in the office and two days working from home, transitioning to full-time onsite work in the future. This is a 9-month contract position focused on driving integration efforts and optimizing payment platform performance.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as the primary subject matter expert on payment schemes, leading integration efforts and ensuring seamless connections.
- Drive the development and execution of the product roadmap, focusing on enhancing payment capabilities in an agile manner.
- Effectively gather business requirements and translate them into stories and acceptance criteria for engineering teams.
- Stay up-to-date with payment scheme developments and regulations to design and build payments connectivity.
- Optimise the payments platform performance for speed, security, reliability, and scalability.
- Support implementation and testing, including operational set-up and training where required.
- Participate in defining operating model and procedures for management of connected payment schemes.
- Collaborate with Engineering and Controls to ensure proper process flows and training materials are in place.
- Assist with the running of Agile ceremonies, e.g., DSUs.
- Serve as the day-to-day contact for all scheme-related product queries, addressing and escalating issues to management.
Key Skills:
- Experience working as a Business Analyst on EU payment schemes.
- Strong working knowledge of SEPA (SEPA CT, SEPA DD, SEPA Instant) payment schemes.
- Knowledge of financial messaging, e.g., scheme messages, ISO20022.
- Strong understanding of payment operations.
- Comfortable working with financial grade APIs.
- Experience working directly with clearing and settlement mechanisms (CSMs).
- Project Management / Delivery qualifications.
- Knowledge of the external/competitor landscape, key players, and legislative environment (Open Banking, PSD2/3).
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: City Of London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
SEPA Payments Business Analyst - JP Morgan - London - 9 months contract - Hybrid - PAYE
We are seeking a SEPA Payments Business Analyst to join JP Morgan in London on an initial 9 months contract to help with the development of a new internal payments platform.
Description
As a Business Analyst at JPMorgan Chase within the Payments technology team, you are the heart of this venture, focused on getting smart ideas into the hands of our customers. You have a curious mindset, thrive in collaborative squads, and are passionate about new technology. By your nature, you are also solution-oriented, commercially savvy and have a head for fintech. You thrive in working in tribes and squads that focus on specific products and projects - and depending on your strengths and interests, you'll have the opportunity to move between them.
Responsibilities :
- Act as the primary subject matter expert on payment schemes, leading integration efforts and ensuring seamless connections
- Drive the development and execution of the product roadmap, focusing on enhancing our payment capabilities in an agile manner
- Effectively gather business requirements and translate them into stories and acceptance criteria for both in-house and external engineering teams
- Stay up-to-date with the payment scheme developments and regulations, to design and build payments connectivity with future compatibility and compliance
- Optimise the payments platform performance to ensure speed, security, reliability, and scalability
- Support implementation and testing, including operational set-up and training where required
- Participate in defining operating model and procedures for management of the connected payment schemes
- Collaborate with Engineering, Controls etc. to ensure the right process flows, procedures, training materials, etc are in place in good time
- Assist with the running of Agile ceremonies, e.g. DSUs
- Serve as the day-to-day contact for all scheme related product queries, promptly addressing and escalating issues to management.
Required qualifications, capabilities and skills:
- Experience working as a Business Analyst on EU payment schemes
- Strong working knowledge of SEPA (SEPA CT, SEPA DD, SEPA Instant) payment schemes
- Knowledge of financial messaging e.g. scheme messages, ISO20022
- Strong understanding of payment operations
- Comfortable working with financial grade APIs
Desirable qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Experience working with directly with clearing and settlement mechanisms (CSMs)
- Project Management / Delivery qualifications
- Knowledge of the external/ competitor landscape, key players (inc. banks, PSPs, fintechs, vendors), legislative environment (Open Banking, PSD2/3 etc.)
*Please note that this role will initially be working on a hybrid model of 3 days office based, 2 days WFH moving to 5 days onsite in the future.*
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