Accounting & Finance

Payments Business Analyst

Q1 Technologies, Inc.

England · Nationwide · United Kingdom

We are looking for a Payments Business Analyst with strong understanding of payment processing, ledgering, messaging standards and data. The role requires someone who can translate payment flows and business requirements into clear functional/data specifications, while being comfortable working directly with databases and Databricks to perform data analysis and validation.

Key Responsibilities

  • Strong understanding of end-to-end Payments processing , including payment lifecycle, clearing, settlement and ledger/bookkeeping flows.
  • Good knowledge of ISO 20022, SEPA and payment messaging formats , including mapping between different message/data structures.
  • Understand ledgering/posting concepts and trace transactions across payment and accounting systems.
  • Connect to databases and Databricks and independently query data using SQL for analysis and investigation.
  • Perform data validation and reconciliation across source, intermediate and target systems.
  • Analyse existing data models, database tables, APIs/messages and define appropriate source-to-target mappings .
  • Create detailed functional specifications, data mappings, field-level rules and acceptance criteria .
  • Work closely with Product, Engineering and QA teams to translate business requirements into implementable technical specifications.
  • Support AI and specification-driven development , helping create structured requirements/specifications that can be consumed effectively by AI-assisted engineering processes.
  • Analyse defects and production issues through data interrogation and transaction tracing .
  • Perform/support functional, data and integration testing , including validation of payment messages and ledger entries.
  • Support developers and testers during implementation, testing and production validation.

Key Skills

Must Have

  • Payments Business Analysis
  • Payments lifecycle & transaction processing
  • Ledgering / accounting postings
  • ISO 20022
  • SEPA
  • Payment messaging formats
  • Databricks / data analysis
  • Source-to-target mapping
  • Functional & data specifications
  • Requirement analysis and acceptance criteria

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