Mobile Payments Business Analyst at Techsavanna Technology Limited

Reports to: Principal Manager, Business Analysis

Role Purpose: To perform analysis and definition of new compliance technology solutions on the mobile money platform and associated integrations.

You will be working as part of an agile team to define mobile money compliance requirements and support solution shaping to meet the needs of the M-Pesa business and its associated compliance and risk controls.

As a Mobile Payments Business Analyst your main responsibilities will include:

• Work alongside the Compliance Product Management team to help set direction and scope to the Compliance technology teams.
• Elicit requirements information from local market representatives and product experts, negotiate with stakeholders to understand real underlying requirements and priority.
• Maintain the team feature/user story product backlog.
• Analyse, validate and organise information into appropriate artefacts (business requirements documents, workflows, business configuration documentation, team backlog updates).
• Specify functional behaviour for the system, covering features, business process definition, user interface definition, report definition, business logic and Use Cases.
• Working with the team, assist in the specification of acceptance criteria for each function.
• Establish a network of contacts and continuously built strong relations with all stakeholders including customers, internal and external suppliers.

As a Mobile Payments Business Analyst your skills and qualifications will ideally include:

• Experience of software development lifecycle is essential, especially within agile methodologies
• Experienced in the use of common business and systems analysis methodologies and modelling tools (JIRA, Confluence).
• Strong understanding of the financial services industry (e.g banking, mobile money, lending and credit), and associated compliance regulations and practices (anti-money laundering, fraud controls, biometric solutions)
• Strong process and analytical skills, able to identify solutions to complex problems.
• Strong business and customer focus.
• Ability to work proactively within a demanding environment, being a key contributor to a fast-moving product development process.
• Ability to communicate and influence with tact and diplomacy.
• Demonstrable numerical, analytical and verbal skills, in particular well-developed written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Experience working within a multi-national team and serving customers from multiple countries.
• Ideally educated to degree level, or equivalent