Business Systems Analyst - Payments Typical Day in Role: • Collaborate with a cross-functional feature team comprised of Scrum Master, Product Owner(s), UX designers, UI and full-stack developers and QA specialists. o Partner with technology teams across IT&S (both Agile and Waterfall) as required. • Assist Product Owner with the analysis of the business domain, creation and grooming of a healthy Product Backlog. • Facilitate common understanding and consensus of epics/features within the team - lead cadences such as sketching and story mapping sessions to identify, write and refine user stories/specifications. • Learn the various flows/functionality within the existing channels platform and their dependencies on upstream systems and applications. • Stretch skills and competencies to serve cross-functional needs of the team and/or where the opportunity presents itself (E.g. Perform testing, lead Scrum cadences such as sprint reviews.)• Identify and implement continuous improvements; evolve the business analysis practice in the ecosystem by experimenting with new techniques and tools. (E.g. Acceptance tests-driven specification). • Conduct impact analyses Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills: 1) 10+ years as a BA/BSA, preferably within banking 2) 3+ years' experience doing deep analysis work in a collaborative Agile software development lab (story mapping, spec and sketch)3) 3+ years' experience with JIRA and Confluence 4) 3+ years' experience with data management and analysis 5) Demonstrated experience with whiteboarding / visualization skills and PowerPoint Nice-To-Have Skills: 1) BSA Experience in payments domain an asset 2) Experience working under an Agile framework – Kanban and Scrum 3) System testing experience 4) Cross-domain exposure in banking & finance Soft Skills Required: • Excellent facilitation skills. • Absolute team player • Ability to work independently • Keen appreciation for user-centric design and customer-driven product development. • Ability to ask strong questions to help the team identify impediments and areas of improvement. • Have an open and curious mind – embrace an 'experiment and learn' mindset. Education: Post-secondary or equivalent work experience Best VS. Average Candidate: Ideal candidate has strong BSA experience with facilitation, working with outside parties and vendors; has experience from payments domain / FI experience; good experience in an Agile environment; strong improvement mindset with attitude to want to grow and learn daily; able to work with little or no requirements and be strong at gathering their own analysis, work with minimal hand holding. #J-18808-Ljbffr