Lead Business Analyst with Payment Domain

Role: Lead Business Analyst with Payment experience

Location: Berkeley Heights, NJ

Key Skills: Business Analysis, Leading Team, Payment Domain, UAT, Agile.

Experience: 15+ years

Mode of Hire: Full Time

Job Description:

Seeking a seasoned Payments (Finance) Functional Domain Expert with strong business consulting and analysis experience to ideate, discover, and define business solutions by collaborating with SMEs and technical teams. The candidate will be responsible for building business cases, creating functional documentation, and performing hands-on product testing while leveraging deep Finance domain expertise.

Mandatory Skills

• 15+ years of overall experience
• Strong Payments domain experience
• Proven experience in business discovery and solution ideation
• Experience building business cases and presenting recommendations to stakeholders
• Hands-on experience in product testing and UAT
• Experience working closely with SMEs and technical teams
• Strong communication and documentation skills
• Business Analysis & Requirement Gathering
• Business Case Development
• Discovery Workshops & Stakeholder Engagement
• Functional Documentation (BRD, FRD, User Stories, Use Cases)
• Process Mapping & Gap Analysis
• Product Testing & UAT
• Functional Solution Design
• Stakeholder Management
• Agile / Waterfall Methodologies

Key Responsibilities

• Lead discovery and requirement-gathering workshops with business stakeholders and SMEs.
• Identify business problems, opportunities, and improvement initiatives.
• Build business cases, ROI assessments, and solution recommendations.
• Collaborate with SMEs, business users, and technical teams to define functional requirements.
• Create and maintain BRDs, FRDs, user stories, process flows, use cases, and functional specifications.
• Understand reverse engineered documentation and groom functional specification & user stories for forward engineering
• Validate the reverse engineered documentation for completeness and correctness
• Translate business requirements into actionable solutions for development teams.
• Perform hands-on product testing, UAT, and functional validation.
• Prepare test scenarios, test cases, and acceptance criteria.
• Track defects and coordinate issue resolution with technical teams.
• Support product implementation, training, and change management activities.

Finance Domain Knowledge

• Card Payments processing and reconciliation. Fraud management
• FP&A (Financial Planning & Analysis)
• Budgeting & Forecasting
• Financial Reporting
• Revenue Management
• Project Financials

Preferred Skills

• Workday Finance
• NetSuite
• Finance Transformation Programs