Business Consultant – Technology / Payment Systems

Business Consultant – Technology / Payment Systems

Requirements

• Expert in SDLC both Agile and Waterfall
• 5 years experience in payment processing preferring in Banking industry
• Familiar with various payment messages (e.g ISO20022) and capable of mapping legacy message types to ISO standards

Responsibilities

• Investigates and identifies strategies to optimize business operations and services, and inform business decisions.
• Defines business requirements to inform technology build and operations by sourcing and analyzing relevant data, reviewing and documenting business processes and collaborating with business stakeholders.
• Sources business and market data to evaluate the effect of projects on business results.
• Assesses the efficiency and the performance of technology (software, hardware and the wider IT system) to deliver expected business results.
• Identifies and analyzes malfunctions, system workflow, and troubleshoots issues raised by business.
• Elicits requirements and analyzes feasibility to ensure solutions/initiatives achieve the expected business outcomes.
• Supports various project teams across the project lifecycle to ensure development is aligned with the business requirements.
• Develops informative, coherent, and usable project documents (project artifacts) for multiple stakeholders covering functional and non-functional business requirements.
• Applies depth of domain & functional expertise for the assigned portfolio to drive the expected business value.
• Breaks down strategic problems, and analyses data and information to provide insights and recommendations.
• Builds tests cases in order to validate business requirements and End-User Testing results.
• Focus is primarily on business/group within BMO; may have broader, enterprise-wide focus.
• Provides specialized consulting, analytical and technical support.
• Exercises judgment to identify, diagnose, and solve problems within given rules.
• Works independently and regularly handles non-routine situations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Foundational level of proficiency in Agile Delivery and Development, Data analysis, Learning Agility.
• Intermediate level of proficiency in Process improvement and optimization, Organization process optimization, Business architecture frameworks, Stakeholder Analysis and Management, Digital Fluency, Systems Thinking, Verbal & written communication skills, Collaboration & team skills, Analytical and problem solving skills, Data driven decision making.
• Advanced level of proficiency in Business requirements definition and analysis, Insights development and reporting, Application functional design, Functional Analysis.
• Typically between 5 – 7 years of relevant experience and post-secondary degree in related field of study or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Deep knowledge and technical proficiency gained through extensive education and business experience.