Sabenza IT & Recruitment

Senior Business Analyst – Card Payments

Sabenza IT & Recruitment City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa

IT Services and IT Consulting · 11-50 employees

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About the role

Lead end-to-end business analysis for complex card payment migration and transformation projects. Facilitate stakeholder alignment, document requirements, and support data migration strategy and UAT execution.

What they look for

Card payments Banking Business analysis Migration projects Issuing Acquiring Scheme integrations Data mapping User stories Stakeholder management Agile Scrum Regulatory compliance Payment processing UAT Requirements elicitation

Requirements

Requires over 8 years of business analysis experience within the banking and payments sector. Candidates must hold an FTI or IIBA certification and possess deep expertise in card management systems and regulatory frameworks.

Full description

Senior Business Analyst – Card Payments

Role Type: 6-month contract

Seasoned BA with deep banking and card payments expertise to deliver complex transformation and migration projects. Covers issuing, acquiring, scheme integrations, and processing platforms. Works across business and technology teams on requirements, impact assessments, stakeholder engagement, regulatory alignment, and seamless system/process integration.

Key responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end BA for card payment

migration projects

  • Gather and document requirements with

business, product, compliance, and technical teams

  • Conduct impact analysis across card

systems, payment platforms, and downstream integrations

  • Produce business process models, user

stories & epics, functional/non-functional requirements, data mapping and migration specs

  • Support data migration strategy,

validation, and reconciliation

  • Facilitate workshops and drive stakeholder

alignment

  • Translate business requirements into

technical specifications

  • Provide SME input on card lifecycle,

authorization flows, settlement, disputes, and compliance

  • Support UAT planning, execution, defect

triage, and sign-off

  • Identify and manage migration risks
  • Contribute to Agile sprint planning and

backlog refinement.

Advantageous

  • Major scheme experience (Visa, Mastercard)
  • Payment switch/platform exposure (e.g.

Postilion, Base24)

  • Data migration tools and reconciliation

techniques

  • CBAP, PMI-PBA or equivalent
  • PMBOK, PRINCE2 or structured delivery

frameworks

Requirements

  • 8+ years’ BA experience in banking
  • Strong hands-on payments experience

(issuing and/or acquiring)

  • Proven migration or transformation project

delivery

  • Solid understanding of core banking

systems, card management systems, payment processing platforms, and regulatory/compliance frameworks

  • Requirements elicitation, process

modelling, and documentation experience

  • Strong stakeholder management across

business and IT

  • Agile/Scrum experience
  • FTI or IIBA certification (required)

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