astra-north

Business System Analyst - Payments

astra-north

Toronto, Ontario, CanadaContractPosted May 27, 2026

Job description

Payments BSA (Payments Domain, High Value Payments or Real Time Payments , API ,. Bulk transfer , Sanctions , ESS) Toronto, ON

  • Hybrid (4 Days WFO) Operations UI BSA UI BA & BSA Capabilities
  • 5+ years BA/BSA experience in Agile environment
  • Manage end-to-end requirements from elicitation through delivery
  • Gather requirements from multiple non-technical business and operations stakeholders
  • Create process maps (as-is and to-be) and gap analysis
  • Translate complex business processes and requirements into clear functional and UI user stories
  • Communicate functional and UI requirements to technical and UXD team
  • Write functional and UI requirements that developers can execute independently
  • Control scope and prioritize requirements Domain Knowledge: SWIFT & Payments
  • Deep knowledge of SWIFT ISO 20022 MX message standards (pain.001, pain.002, pacs.002, pacs.004, pacs.008, pacs.009)
  • Understand payment flows: instructed, instructing, intermediary, and cover payments
  • Understand Domestic vs Cross-border payment processing
  • Know exception handling and remediation processes in high-value payments operations
  • Understand common payment exceptions (failed validations, sanctions hits, format rejections, duplicates, timeouts, etc) Payments Operations Experience
  • Working experience in high-value payments operations or payments transformation projects and gathered requirements
  • Experience identifying operational pain points and converting them into requirements AI & Model Tools
  • Hands-on experience in using AI tools (GitHub, Copilot) to assist with requirements documentation and analysis