System Analyst - Hourly Contract Role - On site - Payments Experience

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Role Overview

Our client, a leading consulting and digital transformation partner in the financial services sector, is seeking a highly experienced Systems Analyst with strong payments domain expertise.

This is not a functional BA role. We are specifically looking for a technical, delivery-focused Systems Analyst who understands integrations, APIs, data mapping, and payment ecosystems end-to-end.

The successful candidate will operate at the intersection of business and technology, translating complex payment requirements into robust system solutions within high-performance delivery environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyse and interpret business requirements within complex payment ecosystems

• Translate requirements into detailed system specifications and technical artefacts

• Produce functional and technical specifications (FSDs, integration specs, API contracts)

• Conduct data mapping and field-level analysis across multiple systems

• Support system integration between internal platforms, payment gateways, and third-party vendors

• Facilitate solution design workshops with architects, developers, and stakeholders

• Perform impact analysis across payment systems and related upstream/downstream systems

• Work closely with QA to ensure solution alignment and test coverage

• Support UAT and production deployment readiness

Required Experience

• 5+ years’ experience as a Systems Analyst (pure SA role)

• Proven experience within payments environments (mandatory)

• Strong knowledge of:

  • EFT

  • Card acquiring / issuing

  • ISO8583 messaging

  • Payment gateways

  • Reconciliations

  • Transaction lifecycle management

• Strong experience with:

  • API integrations (REST / SOAP)

  • Data mapping

  • SQL querying

  • System integration design

• Experience working within financial services or banking environments

• Ability to work independently in high-pressure delivery environments

Technical Skills

• Strong SQL capability (able to interrogate databases independently)

• UML / process modelling

• API documentation tools (Swagger, Postman etc.)

• JIRA / Confluence

• Strong documentation capability (technical specs, integration docs, impact assessments)

Competencies

• Detail-oriented and analytical

• Delivery-focused with strong ownership mindset

• Comfortable working across multiple integration points

• Strong stakeholder engagement capability

• Able to operate in ambiguity and drive clarity

Advantageous

• Experience in large-scale system transformation programmes

• Exposure to consulting environments

• Agile delivery experience

• Banking systems exposure

Education

• Relevant IT / Computer Science / Information Systems qualification

• Certifications in systems analysis or payments (advantageous)

If you are a technically strong Systems Analyst with real payments exposure and enjoy solving complex integration challenges, we would love to hear from you.