Senior Payments Consultant

The Senior Payments Consultant will oversee PS-PayHub's roadmap alignment, manage business analysis and requirements definition, and provide guidance throughout project execution. The consultant will be responsible for gathering requirements, participate in software design, and ensure solution readiness.

Responsibilities

• Review and maintain PS-PayHub roadmap updated according to market needs and main payments industry players trend for future services.
• Manage business analysis and requirements definition and detailing role with customers as part of the project execution lifecycle in alignment with the project managers and products owners.
• Attend team meetings including daily standups, planning, reviews, and retrospectives
• Elicit and gather requirements from multiple sources, such as customer/stakeholders interviews and meetings, documents analysis, and research.
• Identify functional and non-functional requirements and document them in a clear, concise, and complete manner.
• Discuss and negotiate requirements’ details with customers and support the project managers and products owners in getting final requirements detailed document sign off.
• Provide vision and direction to the team and stakeholders throughout the project.
• Analyze the impact of new requirements and changes, providing requirements details and breakdown to Product Owners for efforts’ estimation and needed time for delivery.
• Participate in the software design process with the development team.
• Document and demonstrate solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments.
• Author high-quality product documentation such as business requirements documents, software requirements specifications, interface specifications, and API contracts.
• Build and prioritize product backlog by populating it with user stories and defining their acceptance criteria.
• Conduct backlog grooming and management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories.
• Verify and approve functional and business readiness of the solution releases based on customer approved and signed detailed requirements and design baseline.

Requirements

• Excellent banking experience with field practicing on payments from both customer experience, operations and end-to-end payment execution lifecycle.
• Excellent in requirements gathering and detailing with customers, organize the requirements and define into stories with product owners for development team.
• Solid knowledge of payments of all types including SWIFT, MI Payments, Cross-Border Corridors and Remittance Management.
• Solid understanding of SWIFT, SWIFT GPI, SWIFT-Go, SWIFT Pre-validation, SWIFT CBPR+, SWIFT APIs and future roadmap of SWIFT to market.
• Knowledge of MI payments in GCC, MENA and other regions is a plus.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal skills in English.
• Excellent team player, excellent knowledge and requirements transfer to product owners and development engineers.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Sharp analytical, problem-solving, and research skills.
• Excellent documentation skills for design and stories building and illustrating business requirements in between business and technical teams.
• Have multiple payments related projects implementation with banks, FIs and/or PSPs in MENA region (GCC and tier 1 banks projects are preferred).
• Requirements testing and deliverables acceptance supervision prior to share with business team for testing is essential.
• Background in software development is preferred.