Business Functional Analyst - ISO Payments Transformation (Corporate Bank Technology)

Job Title Business Functional Analyst - ISO Payments Transformation (Corporate Bank Technology)

Location London

Corporate Title Assistant Vice President

This role is within the Payments Transformation & Governance Team. You will need to analyse and understand granular business processes and own the creation and communication of comprehensive requirements to support technological change. In addition, the role will require you to understand the technology strategy in order to recommend suitable functional solutions, as well as identify/resolve risks and issues that may arise.

Your diligent work ethic, detail orientated approach and collaborative attitude will help drive forward change. The role requires strong communication and presentation skills and a deep understanding of the payments domain with a particular focus on High Value Cross Border and Real Time Gross Settlement messaging. It is vital that the analyst builds and maintains excellent working relationships with the business stakeholders and through their trust can guide and influence key requirement and design decisions.

What we’ll offer you

A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce are better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That’s why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its centre.

You can expect:  

• Hybrid Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern that works for them
• Competitive salary and non-contributory pension
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional days
• Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family
• A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits
• The opportunity to support a wide ranging CSR programme + 2 days’ volunteering leave per year

Your key responsibilities

• Partner with our lead Payments product specialists and various application delivery teams to help develop solutions that fully integrate with new or existing IT systems, to solve complex business problems
• Leverage existing expertise and knowledge to validate solution definitions and specifications created by partners across the technology stack
• Maintain a clear and robust requirements management process; author high quality requirements and design artefacts using the banks strategic SDLC toolset.  Support delivery of requirements from initial capture, refinement to testing and implementation
• Lead workshops with business and technology stakeholders to review, develop, validate and finalise requirements for the delivery of payment solutions across the business. Ensure all agreed outputs and decisions are suitably well documented in the agreed tools throughout the requirements lifecycle
• Develop a comprehensive understanding of the end to end flow of products to help support the requirements and delivery lifecycle, and address any risks, issues or queries timely to enable development teams to deliver

Your skills and experience

• Experience with exposure in the payment domain including understanding of products, business and operational processes: Essential High Value Payments - SWIFT MX & MT, RTGS format knowledge
• Experience in a similar role with responsibility for requirements for a given initiative, plus the associated requirements management processes. i.e. Ensuring clear requirements traceability through the standard requirements lifecycle phases of idea generation, requirement analysis, requirement refinement, cascade of project level requirements down to relevant delivery teams, etc.
• Evidenced understanding of correspondent banking and domestic/cross border payment messaging (including but not limited to SWIFT MT/pacs/pain/camt)
• Experience of Agile software delivery methodology and tools/skills like specification by example and writing acceptance criteria
• Experience with collaboration and influencing across virtual teams

How we’ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career
• Coaching and support from experts in your team
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs
• We value diversity and as an equal opportunities’ employer, we make reasonable adjustments for those with a disability such as the provision of assistive equipment if required (e.g. screen readers, assistive hearing devices, adapted keyboards)

About us

Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. Click here to see what we do.

Deutsche Bank in the UK is proud to have been named The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2025 for six consecutive years. Additionally, we have been awarded a Gold Award from Stonewall and named in their Top 100 Employers 2024 for our work supporting LGBTQ+ inclusion.

If you have a disability, health condition, or require any adjustments during the application process, we encourage you to contact our Adjustments Concierge on adjustmentsconcierge@db.com to discuss how we can best support you. Alternatively, you can share your phone number, and a member of the team will be happy to call you to talk through your specific requirements.

We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.