Merchant Acquisition & Merchant Settlements Business Analyst

Position Overview: Senior Technical Business Analyst for Back Office & Settlement development within Merchant Solutions. Act as requirements engineer with strong IT, problem-solving, and communication skills. Drives requirements definition and execution across multiple stakeholder groups. Designs repeatable processes for requirements gathering, facilitation, and documentation.

Key Responsibilities

1. Requirement Assessment & Definition

• Analyze business needs and perform gap analysis.
• Knowledge of Payment Acquiring Services business model and Settlement services is critical.
• Define future-state business architecture and represent it via business/system process flows.

2. Requirement Gathering

• Gather business and technical/functional requirements for SDLC phases.
• Schedule and facilitate requirement elicitation sessions with internal/external resources.
• Identify gaps, impacts, and requirements across impacted areas.
• Interpret functional & non-functional requirements in multiple formats (written, oral, diagram, schedule).
• Apply mathematical concepts to practical scenarios.

3. Requirement Documentation

• Create and manage business requirement collateral for each SDLC stage.

4. Requirement Support, Management & Communication

• Modify requirements through amendments/variances for scope changes.
• Support integration testing to ensure specs meet business needs.
• Lead knowledge-sharing sessions and present information comprehensively.
• Respond effectively to IT, product owners, and internal/external client queries.
• Demonstrate strong organization, time management, listening, communication, and attention to detail.

Key Qualifications and Skillset for this Role:

• Proficiency with tools: JIRA, Tableau, Confluence, Clarity, MS Office.
• 8+ years related IT experience.
• Bachelors degree or equivalent work experience.
• In-depth knowledge of application development technologies, tools, methodologies, and industry.
• Ability to handle complex processes, systems, and projects.
• Self-starter with excellent organizational and communication skills.
• Deep knowledge of application development technologies, methodologies, and merchant acquiring industry.
• Experience with transaction processing and monetary settlement technology , Payment technology projects.
• Exposure to technical projects involving compliance release cycles with credit payment networks (Mastercard, Visa, Amex, Discover) and debit networks (Maestro, Interlink, accel etc)

Job Type: Contract

Pay: $50.00 - $55.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Experience:

• Merchant Acquiring & Merchant settlements: 3 years (Required)
• Financial services & Payment technologies: 5 years (Required)
• Business Analyst: 8 years (Required)

Location:

• Alpharetta, GA 30022 (Required)

Ability to Relocate:

• Alpharetta, GA 30022: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person